Virtually no free parking here but there are several parking garages and they do hove metered spots on the street. It is still a crap shoot how long you will be at the building department. "Good news" generally takes longer. There are several different things you need and they are not all at the same place. There is a lot of walking involved. "Rejection" is usually pretty fast. (nope you are missing "X", come back when this is complete.)
The production builders use a permit service and they have a separate desk because they will show up with a stack of applications. These are usually closer to being right the first time because the permit service knows what works and what doesn't. You might still get it kicked back in plan review but it does get past the intake desk faster.
Most of the time these are mastered plans so they sail through. There are so many optional details that it is hard to figure out what they are really building from the master. The electrical plan is just a guideline. Point to point, I doubt there are many houses wired the same, even off the same master. Where my wife built, they gave the customer a lot of flexibility in placing outlets so you ended up having to put in extras just to meet 210.52. They also had a lot of options for additional outlets (garage fridge/freezer, additional attic lighting, additional outside outlets etc). Each trade would get a marked up master for each house that they actually built off of and outlet placement, switches, door swings, floor covering etc, was painted on the floor during the post framing customer walk through.
