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    1 year ago

    Not that it isn’t fun to laugh at what a boondoggle Twitter X is, but why do you need a permit to change a sign on a building?

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      1 year ago

      Guessing less about the sign itself and more about the heavy equipment/traffic obstruction involved in getting it down.

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        Also possibly becathe doesn’t own the building and needs approval of the owner.

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            But owners would probably call the police to stop the illegal work from being done to their building. They don’t want the liability. This would be reasonable to be part of an approval process with the building owners as you’d likely need their signature with the city, not just twitters.

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            1 year ago

            Agreed. But the owner of the building would presumably be able to control modifications of his own building.

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      Need to make sure a qualified contractor does the work, that the sidewalk is roped off, and that other construction on the same road isn’t happening. Pretty typical stuff.

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      Presumably because he (the company) doesn’t actually own the building. So any modifications have to be approved by the building owner.

      Same way you can’t really paint the wall of your rented accommodation. It’s not your property.

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      On public roads and sidewalks, you need permits and to have submitted a plan showing how much of the footpath/road will be blocked and for how long. You need to show where your bollards and rope or whatnot will be and any necessary signage (like 'pedesdrians keep left’s) that sort of thing.

      Once you get the approval, you can jam up the area with a cherry picker/crane until you’re finished and everything is packed away.

      So anyway, what I’m getting at, is this is the signage company not getting the permits - which they would have charged Twitter/X for and not an Elon oversight - UNLESS Elon decided to park that crane out there himself and to get whoever to pull down the signage.