I have been seeing something closer to home…Our governments just go right after the people to bleed them. Not that there isn’t major corruption here similar in size like at the Olympics in Russia and everywhere else but just for the sake of keeping it local, I will post what I am seeing.
Right in the middle of the boom there was a Hasidic Jew Group from the east coast subdividing a large parcel into many 10 acre parcels to build or sell. As a condition they had to widen a road put curbs etc. The project sputtered and stopped but a much better road than exists for many many miles out here was built.
I think the permit was probably not closed but the road was finished for all practical purposes. It is a hell of a lot better than the county maintained road that we all pay for through a local agreement and that is treated with no similar scrutiny and is as a matter of fact overgrown with brush , deteriorating and what work as gets done ,is half assed.
Now I see some two bit contractor out here on this awesome road by local standards, doing bullshit busy work to this road….at a total milk it pace. They have a tractor sitting out there all days but no one uses it much . I am guessing they are billing every hour of daylight for it. Probably charging high dollars for everything and padding it all, , under county authority, to bill the owners and put a lien. DPLU is no doubt also running a tab for their part in this likely scam. I have seen this mode of operation how they do it that’s why I think it’s likely. I think it’s predatory. I think it will cost this group a ton and possibly force a tax sale.
Our local building dept. tried something similar on me but I was lucky and successfully fought it off. A lawyer I have talked to since said beating these kinds of rackets is extremely rare.
Usually they look for absentee investors, landlords , property owners or weak homeowners with active permits or some stupid code violation outstanding to go after on some exaggerated scale that they can churn business from. There are always many more flagrant things that could be pointed out compared to what the county is sinking their teeth in, as in this case….it’s the best road out here, by far. Either way it’s for all purposes a scam.
