Comments on: Seattle’s Priority Green program - permitting isn’t “expedited,” it’s “facilitated” http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/2008/08/29/seattles-priority-green-program-permitting-isnt-expedited-its-facilitated/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:04:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Recent URLs tagged Stormwater - Urlrecorder http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/2008/08/29/seattles-priority-green-program-permitting-isnt-expedited-its-facilitated/#comment-772 Recent URLs tagged Stormwater - Urlrecorder Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:04:04 +0000 http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/2008/08/29/seattles-priority-green-program-permitting-isnt-expedited-its-facilitated/#comment-772 [...] Recent public urls tagged "stormwater" → Seattle’s Priority Green program - permitting isn’t... [...] [...] Recent public urls tagged “stormwater” → Seattle’s Priority Green program - permitting isn’t… [...]

]]> By: Peter Chee http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/2008/08/29/seattles-priority-green-program-permitting-isnt-expedited-its-facilitated/#comment-577 Peter Chee Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:29:32 +0000 http://www.djc.com/blogs/BuildingGreen/2008/08/29/seattles-priority-green-program-permitting-isnt-expedited-its-facilitated/#comment-577 Is the City of Seattle trying to make this an exclusive thing to be a part of? Are they trying to make this more difficult to do? Seems a little counter intuitive to me. Let's see, going green costs more and then to top it off you have to reach LEED gold in order to be facilitated? Is it just me, or does this just take the wind out of people's sail? I thought Seattle was leading the pack, this sounds like a set back. The City of Redmond has a new green program of which my commercial project was the first one through it. I got my first building permit in 7 days and the second and third permits in 14. I thought that was pretty fast. I was very happy to be part of their program and glad to be expedited. Is the City of Seattle trying to make this an exclusive thing to be a part of? Are they trying to make this more difficult to do? Seems a little counter intuitive to me. Let’s see, going green costs more and then to top it off you have to reach LEED gold in order to be facilitated? Is it just me, or does this just take the wind out of people’s sail? I thought Seattle was leading the pack, this sounds like a set back.

The City of Redmond has a new green program of which my commercial project was the first one through it. I got my first building permit in 7 days and the second and third permits in 14. I thought that was pretty fast. I was very happy to be part of their program and glad to be expedited.

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