What is "building permit"

Usage examples of "building permit".

And somebody got a building permit, because it's been built after the ghetto got here.

We were having a spell of difficulties with the county council around then, a building permit they were holding back or some such nonsense.

Cole's property line for the county to issue him a building permit.

Even if this was already a resort and he didn't have to rezone, local council must've agreed to his building permit.

Ever met a violent, aggressive hippie with an intimate knowledge of whose genitals one must masticate in order to get a building permit or to make a pot bust vanish?

In addition, we should consider increasing building permit fees and dog licensing fees, charging for fire calls and police calls that don't result in action by safety officers -- false alarms, basically -- and we should look into contracting out specific services that are currently performed by town employees.

I found a job in the planning department of city hall, processing building permit applications.

In Pickax the plans and specifications must be drawn up by an architect in order to obtain a building permit.

No P&Z but a White Plains construction company applied for a building permit for 458 West Thirty-sixth Street-the site of the fire-two days ago.

And the studiolittle more than a lock-up garage at the back of a run-down housing development, one of those thrown up twenty years ago without any building permit and built so shoddily they were now falling down againwas a very dirty place.

The elders are reconsidering your building permit, and will refund any monies you have given them.

Solicitous wheeled the dessert cart tableside and Linda chose a monumental cream and hazelnut thing that looked as if baking it required a building permit.

He must have been living in the house, or planning to live there, because a building permit was issued in early 1954 for a new wing containing kitchen, bathrooms, nursery and a recreation room.