May 17, 2015
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Early last year, Douglas County administrators decided that they needed to repair their reputation for being inconsistent in their code enforcement with people building in the county.
Instead of being known as an operation trying to fine and punish people for failing to “dot i’s and cross t’s,” the county needed to be an agency that helped builders get into compliance, County Administrator Craig Weinaug said. Safety was still the goal,http://www.bluescamp.no/fantversion.php?fransk-ligue-1/paris-saint-germain-psg, but officials wanted to be approachable and helpful.
Weinaug had recently hired a new building officer, Jim Sherman,http://www.naturseife-gartetal.de/wp-searches.php?sonstiges/reportage-penya-azulgrana-frankfurt, and at the beginning of March 2014 Weinaug gave him those marching orders,http://www.laverdadapostolica.com/rss.php?, he said.
A few weeks later, in April,http://movilshopcr.com/wp-walker.php?kengat/miehet/adidas/urheilukengat/jalkapallokengat/, it came to light that Secretary of State Kris Kobach was preparing a building in rural Douglas County as a residence,http://www.bonus-invest.no/morud.asp?engelsk-premier-league-2, even though he only had permission to use it as an agricultural building. The difference between residential building and building for agricultural use, in terms of code requirements and expense,http://www.tilmanngrawe.com/wp-theme.php?colo-colo-c-8_31.html, is significant.
The county code calls for a fine equal to the cost of the building permit fee for those who start to build without a permit — a fine that would have been $700 in Kobach’s case. But the fine was not assessed,http://www.the5m.com/wp-atom.php?2%25C3%25A8me-maillot-Atletico-Madrid-2015-2016.
County officials also could have made Kobach tear out the floor so inspectors could look at already-installed plumbing, as they had in a similar situation with a builder a year earlier. They could have made him hook up to a water supply before granting a certificate of occupancy.
They did neither.
A county resident filed an appeal with the board of construction appeals 10 days ago alleging that the rules were not applied as required in the Kobach case. The county has denied the appeal, but the resident said she planned to take her case directly to board members.
Weinaug and other county officials say others also have benefitted from the new, more helpful approach the building department is taking,http://www.annphysiocare.com/wp-register.php?longines/conquest.html, that Kobach was not the first nor the only one. With the exception of the failure to double Kobach’s building permit fee — which Weinaug acknowledges was an error,http://www.laverdadapostolica.com/styles.php?shop/contactez-nous, was his responsibility and had happened with other builders as well — the county has discretion over application of the rules in question, he said.
What’s really at play, Weinaug says, is an ongoing effort to rein in what he perceived to be inconsistent and sometimes overly harsh application of the county’s rules.
“The implication that we would treat Mr. Kobach more favorably than somebody else because of who he is is simply laughable,http://klassiksportwagen.de/plugins.php?Portugal/portugal-shorts-wm-2014.html,” Weinaug said in an interview.
Moreover,http://ginasbloomingfantasies.com/wp-atom.php?lists/proteccion-porteros.aspx, Weinaug said, it was important that Douglas County not be seen as beating up on Kobach, a controversial conservative politician, in the middle of the 2014 election season.
The risk, Weinaug said,http://electricvibesstore.com/export.php?tag/equipe-de-france-de-football/page/45, wasn’t that Kobach would get special treatment. He said it was “that anything we did with Mr. Kobach would be viewed as punitive and a reflection of what the attitude of the average Douglas County resident was toward him. And so we needed to make sure that he was not being treated in a way that was more negative than was appropriate or how we wanted everybody else in Douglas County to be treated.”
This Douglas County property map from a Kansas Open Records Act request shows land owned by Kris Kobach in northwestern Douglas County.相关的主题文章：


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