Civic · 6 pages · 12 min
A permit clears a proposal to proceed, while an inspection checks whether the work in place matches the rules.
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Permission, in the form of a permit, is a decision about a proposal before the work proceeds or as it is authorized to start. Inspection is a later look at the work in place, asking whether what was built matches the approved plans and the code items that can be judged only on the construction itself. The opening covers permits judge the submitted proposal, inspections judge the work in place, and code stages set the visits.
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