Don Rosenthal, of Reno, Nevada, will be stepping into the vacancy at Atlanta’s Building Department, taking the place of Ibrahim Maslamani. He starts with the department December 1st. We found this article about Mr. Rosenthal’s philosophy on the Internet and thought you might enjoy reading it: Interview with Don Rosenthal
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Keep up with the city’s plans for change here – http://www.sustainableatlanta.org/ The plan is to “Amend Atlanta’s building code so that it responds to advances in building technology to protect the health, safety, and welfare of Atlantans and to safeguard Atlanta’s long term comprehensive competitiveness.” What are the requirements of the Ordinance? The Sustainable Building [...]
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Grease Trap Reviews at Atlanta are now being routed through the site development department.
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UPDATE: As of October, this fee increase has been put on the shelf until probably the first of next year. The City Utility Committee requested a comparison of existing fees with proposed fees, and the justification for the increases. The attached table provides the comparison. Please note that the current fees were established in 2005, [...]
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Many people in Atlanta are wishing permit turnaround times were still the same as they were some years back, when an interior finish under 3000 s/f could be completed in one day. Unfortunately, computerization has done away with that forever. Now, best case is typically three weeks and more often four to five. Bear in [...]
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Last fall, the city of Atlanta began enforcing an ordinance passed at the end of 2007 which gave reviewers the option to re-evaluate the cost of a job if they felt it was understated in the notarized cost letter that must accompany every permit. Recently, our clients have experienced very large fees for certain jobs, [...]
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