Re:Florida started penalizing bureaucratic delay. Housing pe...
by s1artibartfast on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @11:48AM
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It makes sense to me given that permitting office had no incentive to do its job previously.
If I were to guess, most of the time was sitting on various desks.
With a lot of government agencies, processing time is just a function of backlog que.
I had a trivial vehicle title issue and it took 9 months to get resolved. It would move from department to department spending 3 months on a desk in each department.
Each task was a 1 minute assessment, (is a box checked), or sometimes simply forwarding it to another group.
It would have taken much longer, but I spent a dozen hours calling in and convinced the bureaucrats to skip the que a few times.
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Although if the permit process was often (>50% of applications) taking over 30 days I do wonder how they achieved this faster time. Is it a less thorough review? Did they pull people from other departments? Was the person making the decision not the person who sent out the application's status and so it just sat on somebodies desk?
An improvement of efficacy of over 100% from just passing a law seems very suspicious.