Going Up

Learning to Live with Bureaucracy

• Snagging and delays: Major delays were caused not by physical work, but by bureaucracy — especially sewer connection permissions and road closure coordination.
• Bad information: Also, apparently there were some large gas containers that had been demolished some years before, but the records suggested they were still in operation. We were told that residential property development was not allowed in the area!! A scary moment. We were told that our project was not viable, based on incorrect information. We didn't know it at the time, but found out that it was an information problem, not a substantive one.