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Originally Posted by TiltonBB
We may be protected from the "abusers" but who is there to protect us from government zealots?
People who work in departments like DES are generally bent in one direction: Conservation at all costs. They don't care if their over regulation costs thousands more and impedes homeowners and businesses from moving forward with repairs or new construction.
These positions should be filled equally with conservationists as well as with business people who understand both sides of an issue. Some of these conservation nuts get to these jobs straight out of college and have never had to live in the real world, hold down a private industry job, meet a payroll, or understand how much the interference of government costs us all.
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I have to respectfully disagree with that statement. Over the past 9 years of having a waterfront home next to a nut job neighbor with too much time and money on their hands, I have had WAY more than my fair share of dealings with the folks at the DES (2 PBNs, 3 formal abbutter complaints against me, a wetlands permit, a shoreland permit, 3 abbutter appeals of those permits, one of those one all the way to the Supreme Court, Yes, same abutter). In all that experience the people at DES have been nothing but professional in their dealings with me. Each and every case. They don't make up the rules but it is their job to understand them and to enforce them fairly and consistently just the same. Whether they agree with those rules or not is irrelevant. In my experience because they do know the rules inside and out they are also able to give you hints and show you loopholes if you treat them with the respect they deserve and not like you think they're government zealots and beneath you.
Just saying.