Any jurisdiction in California (that I have experience with)
Submit plans to plan check. Start building the job because the schedule is tight and the general is pushing. 1 month later> still waiting for plans to come out of plan check< Job is now at the point where thing need to be covered up. All the owners reps state in the meetings how they will get the permit pushed thru in the next couple of days. (Because this client is so important and has so much clout you know) >3 more weeks go by< job is at stand still because there is still no permit issued and owners reps have pissed of the AHJ. They refuse to do courtesy inspections. About this time plans come back from plan check usually with comments and stamped "revise and re submit." Resubmitals usually don't take to long if there are not to many corrections. By this time there has been multiple changes to the job and the current drawings don't match the submited drawings any way. [Linked Image]
Basically 6 to 8 weeks for plan check review and issuance of a permit for medium to large commercial job. Then, you have to deal with the utility design engineers for there requirements and design. I better not even get started on that! [Linked Image] [Linked Image]

[This message has been edited by Nick (edited 11-13-2002).]