Comment on GOP overhaul of broadband permit laws: Cities hate it, cable companies love it
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoOr alternatively, companies can bribe a few local politicians to stall, then start building anyways when the deadline hits.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s closer to it. The local permitting jurisdictions get nothing out of approving or denying applications. They get held up for two reasons: the proposal is incomplete/unapprovable by law; and political intervention from an outside entity. Maybe the mayor or a commissioner, sometimes a director of an agency or organization. That’s where any bribery or other such shenanigans would take place. Not the permitting office.