The idea of paying to get permission to do something to your own property and applying to someone who is no better than you are, can go against this grain. Since a person owns property and pays taxes on it, he or she should be able to add a deck or paint a house the color they want to. Lawyers and paralegals are always thankful to hear there is no zoning here. It makes their job easier. I feel that recording all land use permits in the land records is a waste of my time and also fills up valuable space in the vault.
Every person searching title ends up in the zoning office to check the status of permits.
Recording permits is not only a burden on the Planning and Zoning Office and the Town Clerk, it is an additional cost that the permitees have to pay. I'm still working on getting packets of records that remain in the homes of the hardworking, part-time and sometimes volunteer officers who have done the zoning, planning commission and ZBA and septic permit work over the years. I am trying to get all files index by land number instead of all the various names of owners. We would be very interested in any information you can provide on computer programs that do indexing etc. Morristown t I use File Maker Pro as it is easy and fast.