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Can someone please explain to me how DOB is NOT a pay to play exercise. I’m starting construction on a renovation of our new house in WT tomorrow and I’ve got a $2,000 bill due to the expeditor. So I’ve asked for information on what meetings they went to, with whom, when and for how long, and I get back this absurd response “JUST PAY THE INVOICE.”

Do projects get done if you don’t use an expeditor? It seems that DOB has no incentive to make its resources user friendly if it can generate fees solely by being inefficient. The whole experience seems awfully squishy from a legal / ethical standpoint. I might say it’s even corrupt.

A curious brooklynite