This is gov. bureaucracy in action. American citizen wants to get minor work done on his house.

"His local government made him do the following tasks before any work can be started:

- First thing they made me do is post details about it in the local paper. I have no idea where you would buy our local paper — The information I need to post is completely incompreh by a human because it all just refers to, you know, random government code. Had to post it in the newspaper.

- And then I had to pay an additional $80 to get them to provide me an affidavit that said, hey, we the newspaper guarantee that this was posted in the newspaper. Now you couldn't just buy the newspaper for $2 and see, hey, it was posted. That wasn't good enough

— So after I posted that in the newspaper that no one's gonna look at and no one knows how to read, I had to then send out — There's 27 addresses within 200ft of our property. So I had to send it out. I had to send those via certified mail

- Now, certified mail is about $5 each and to do a certified mail, you have to fill out these little green and white feed forms in the post office. So I'm standing in the post office for like 45 minutes filling out these little forms, one to one, one for each letter, 27 different forms. And then I'm paying $5 to the postal service to deliver this certified to the people that live within 200ft of me.

- So now I had to get all the receipts from those, and I have to go to my local library to get the notary to notarize that.

So why do I have to do all that?

For the simple reason of that anyone wants to sue me, that the government can absolve themselves of all fault, and they can say, well, you signed this, you had this affidavit there, you had that there. It's not our faul fault, it's all their fault. And they get to point the finger at me. So I get to pay all this extra money, do all these random tasks for them, all for the wonderful benefit of being liable in case something happens, and zero benefit to the actual thing I need, which is for them to look at my damn plans. And just as an aside, here, all the applications are numbered.

We are the second application in the entirety of 2025 to be reviewed by the Board of Adjustment in my town. And we submitted this in February, July 1st, tomorrow. And we still have not got our plans reviewed.”"