I guess no one was listening or cared about a record breaking (Hail Storming) building permits in Sioux Falls last year, so let’s have a re-run;
2014 End-of-Year Building Permit Stats Are In! A Record-Breaking Year News Conference on Monday
| What:Â | News conference to announce end-of-year building permit totals for 2014 and preview what’s ahead in 2015 |
| Â When: | Monday, January 5, 2015 11 a.m. |
| Â Where: | City Hall Commission Room 224 West Ninth Street |
| Â Who: | Mike Cooper, Director of Planning and Building Services Ron Bell, Chief Building Official |
| Â Why: | Sioux Falls building permits broke three different records in 2014. Come to the news conference to learn which records were broken and what the statistics mean for 2015. |
| Â Visuals: | Charts, graphs |
Like I have mentioned before, wouldn’t have happened without the hail storm. I talked to a roofer the other day that said a lot of impatient homeowners used out-of-state (cheap) companies and we will probably seeing the effects of that in a couple of years. He also told me he already has 45 re-roof jobs lined up for the Spring, so it seems like the damage that needs to be repaired from the hail storms is still trickling in.
In other city news, I see Cory Madville did a great post about Big Brother using our cell phone data to track us;
Mayor Huether could buy more detailed information about Scott Ehrisman’s weekly travel habits. Mayor Huether could buy more detailed data, divide distance by time, mass-mail speeding tickets to every phone user who gets across town in under fifteen minutes. He could buy cell phone data to calculate road usage and send every driver a bill for road usage, essentially turning every street into a toll road. No federal legislation stops him. The Obama Administration says (and the courts so far agree) cell phone users have no reasonable expectation of locational privacy. The only things stopping Mayor Huether from such invasions of privacy are cost and good will:
What concerns me even more is that the traffic department is doing this kind of research using our tax dollars and without prior approval from the city council. Heck, I think most of them didn’t even know about it until they saw it in the newspaper. But hey, what do you expect from the most transparent mayor we have ever had?