AUSTIN | Economic Development

[drummer]

I'm helping to manage some projects for our company to do work with our handful of buildings around manufacturing and warehousing & distribution - not in Austin, but another suburb. The amount of time we have to spend waiting on city approvals for the smallest things is ridiculous - and everything is contingent on something else. It's not even about the regulations, half the time...it's the twiddling of thumbs while we can't finish the work.

I say this as someone who generally doesn't mind a tad bit of oversight into businesses, especially around environmental stuff. But some of it is just ridiculous. My boss and I (and several others) are not thrilled with the inefficiencies.