Pressure from EJBNEWS gets city hall action on backlogged building permits

In the city where council never uses its congressional-like power to hold hearings and learn if employees the mayor supervises are obeying ordinances, or if the ordinances need tweaking, a backlog of building and housing permits may be caught up “without overtime” if Mayor Frank Jackson’s chief development official follows-up. Jackson’s chief of regional development, Ed Rybka, met with building and housing workers on Tuesday and told them to catch up on getting backlogged permits to contractors and property owners. There’s more than a 4-month backlog of unfilled permit requests that has pissed off smaller contractors and property owners who’ve…
