Permit costs in the order of thousands of dollars, for a rather simple remodel? Almost routine now.
I ran into that brick wall myself. I was being a citizen and tried to get a permit to replace an aluminum and glass "Florida room" with block. I had engineering for the trusses, engineered window and door systems and I was really just down to a block wall. Long story short, $400 later I still did not have drawings of that wall that the county would accept. (3 stamped/sealed pages of engineering was still not enough) I have abandoned the project. It became apparent to me that it cost more to draw a picture of a block wall than it will to build it.
The government is clearly out of control.
