Technology is helping. Increasingly, cities, counties, and various local agencies and organizations are providing basic educational and timesaving information on permitting over the Internet. The city s web site also provides links to regional economic development resources. As helpful and welcoming as these resources are, however, you ve gotta know the territory. Permit processing is handled differently in different communities.
Building departments are different with different policies.
This frustrates builders and potentially exacerbates an already complex development process. In Conclusion Certainly GMA and its implementation in Washington have been controversial. When government regulations, fees, and processes add unnecessary costs to development projects, building prices will rise unnecessarily. When land use policies and regulations result in constricted housing supply, prices will rise. When government policies withhold the capital investment in infrastructure necessary to accommodate growth, the community at-large will bear the costs in terms of traffic congestion, pollution, overcrowding, and a generally diminished quality of life.