Expedite building permit in North Hempstead

[Elke Mariotti]

Originally Posted by nuts2uiam

. I was only trying to save an intelligent person some hard earned $$ for something mostly likely they could do on their own.

Since you pointed out my mistakes , I have bolded yours above, Mr. Expeditor, perhaps you should look at the TOS for this site. You are advertising and that is simply not permitted. (pun intended)

[nuts2uiam]

My thanks to Sunny days 12. This is the article that was emailed to me. The link is not available to none subscribers, so I have copied and pasted it. I knew I was not going crazy. Thanks so very much.



N. Hempstead ends expedited permit process

Published: January 26, 2012 8:55 PM
By EMILY C. DOOLEY emily.dooley@newsday.com
The Town of North Hempstead has ended an expediting policy that allowed applicants for residential building permits to speed up the review process by using outside experts.
Permit processing had slowed dramatically as the department rebuilt and reformed operations after a corruption scandal in 2007 that led to five arrests and three convictions.
"As we slowed to a crawl, we were aware we needed more people doing plans analysis," Supervisor Jon Kaiman said.
The expediting process began in 2008 as a way to help applicants on a tight timeline advance their permit reviews by paying to use town-approved outside experts.
Between 2008 and the first part of this month, nearly 10 percent of residential building permit applications were reviewed by outside experts. During that same period, 19 percent of commercial permits were issued after expedited reviews, according to numbers provided by the town.
But now the department is back to processing the same amount of permits -- 4,753 in 2011 -- as it did pre-scandal.
With production back on track, coupled with some complaints by residents about having to pay to move through the process faster, the town decided to cancel the residential expediting program. "It seemed like it was time to end that component," Kaiman said. "It served its purpose."
Commercial applicants still have the expediting option.
Kaiman said the move was one of many in the coming months the town will take to revise operations at the building department.
"This is all part of the new and improved North Hempstead Building Department -- strict as hell, but kindler and gentler."

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by nuts2uiam

My thanks to Sunny days 12. This is the article that was emailed to me. The link is not available to none subscribers, so I have copied and pasted it. I knew I was not going crazy. Thanks so very much.



N. Hempstead ends expedited permit process

Published: January 26, 2012 8:55 PM
By EMILY C. DOOLEY emily.dooley@newsday.com
The Town of North Hempstead has ended an expediting policy that allowed applicants for residential building permits to speed up the review process by using outside experts.
Permit processing had slowed dramatically as the department rebuilt and reformed operations after a corruption scandal in 2007 that led to five arrests and three convictions.
"As we slowed to a crawl, we were aware we needed more people doing plans analysis," Supervisor Jon Kaiman said.
The expediting process began in 2008 as a way to help applicants on a tight timeline advance their permit reviews by paying to use town-approved outside experts.
Between 2008 and the first part of this month, nearly 10 percent of residential building permit applications were reviewed by outside experts. During that same period, 19 percent of commercial permits were issued after expedited reviews, according to numbers provided by the town.
But now the department is back to processing the same amount of permits -- 4,753 in 2011 -- as it did pre-scandal.
With production back on track, coupled with some complaints by residents about having to pay to move through the process faster, the town decided to cancel the residential expediting program. "It seemed like it was time to end that component," Kaiman said. "It served its purpose."
Commercial applicants still have the expediting option.
Kaiman said the move was one of many in the coming months the town will take to revise operations at the building department.
"This is all part of the new and improved North Hempstead Building Department -- strict as hell, but kindler and gentler."

The way this article reads, it appears as if the Building Department hired experts to help them review plans that were submitted. Not that they got rid of expediters. That makes no sense that you think the town of Hempstead got rid of the expediters, because then the architect would become the expediter.

[twingles]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

The way this article reads, it appears as if the Building Department hired experts to help them review plans that were submitted. Not that they got rid of expediters. That makes no sense that you think the town of Hempstead got rid of the expediters, because then the architect would become the expediter.

Yeah, I have to agree. Nowhere in there does it say that someone can't hire an expeditor to speed the process thru. Just says that TONH got rid of the outside vendors they'd been using to expedite plans thru their review process.

[Elke Mariotti]

Originally Posted by twingles

Yeah, I have to agree. Nowhere in there does it say that someone can't hire an expeditor to speed the process thru. Just says that TONH got rid of the outside vendors they'd been using to expedite plans thru their review process.

[nuts2uiam]

Well that certainly makes sense now that you point it out. It was not how the person who emailed it to me back then explained it and I guess I was so tied up in knots about how to proceed in the midst of this mess that I never really thoroughly read it. Oh well, at the time it convinced me to do it on my own and we did and saved ourselves a ton of money from what we have hard.

[nuts2uiam]

That certainly makes a lot of sense now that you have pointed it out to me. The person who emailed it to me did not explain it that way. I guess the only excuse I have for not reading it thoroughly is that I was so twisted up in knots dealing with TNH for stuff that I was able to close my home with 17 years ago with NO mention by anyone on either side, from attorney, to lender, to appraiser. My aggravation level was through the roof, not to mention the associated costs connected to correcting this mess.

You are all correct, thanks for setting me straight. The only good that came out of tis was due to my incorrect interpretation, we did it our selves and saved a ton of money and time.