I've done city projects before but they tripple in price because you now need a full admin office to deal with all the sign offs and random expenses.

even on this deal, we were queued up to spend almost 12k on engineer REPORTS not even building or labor, just COMPLIANCE

its insane. We tried to skirt under the radar but NO THE CUSTOMER JUST HAD TO GET NERVOUS.

The irony of this is now that the customer paid for the permit, they are going to face the full gauntlets of the city compliance officers and if they don't comply they lose their store lol