Tel Aviv Permitting: The Seven Circles Of Hell

Is your city's permitting process difficult? The Tel Aviv Municipality (Israel) permitting system is much, much worse.

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March 4, 2003, 8:00 AM PST

"'But there's one hour for receiving the public in the morning, which you can sign up for at 4 A.M. at the entrance to the administration - and wait. Having no alternative, I've gone there - like lots of other people - many times at that hour. You go crazy every time you go there, and I have no idea whether they do this out of nastiness or for some other reason.'... The engineering administration is considered archaic, complicated and even vengeful. Getting a simple permit - for example to build a room on the roof or change the purpose of business premises - can drag on for many months and sometimes years."

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FULL STORY: Seven circles of city hell

Tuesday, March 4, 2003 in Haaretz

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