Sentence examples for plan examiners from inspiring English sources

"Over the years," Mr. Kutwal said, the department "has severely cut back the staff of plan examiners and inspectors.

The city also gained by requiring fewer plan examiners and inspectors in a period that the budget for the Buildings Department had been drastically cut.

Under self-certification (sometimes called professional certification), the Buildings Department reviews construction applications to see if they are complete, but does not subject them to the detailed scrutiny of plan examiners under the standard approval process.

Given the dearth of inspectors (260) and plan examiners (63) for the entire city, both critics and proponents of the program concur that it is accountability for the self-certifiers that must be assured.

The papers are then assigned to plan examiners who review the project for full code compliance -- for example, that it is in the appropriate zoning district, that it does not have too many floors, that there are enough staircases, that the layouts provide access for the disabled, that asbestos will be removed.

"What that means on a day-to-day basis," Mr. Mandl said, "is that the process is condensed from perhaps three to six months of reviews by plan examiners from the department to a maximum of 10 days, which is an incredibly powerful tool".

The team is made up of four inspectors, a plan examiner and a supervisor from agencies that issue permits — including the Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene, Fire and Buildings.

And appointments are required not with just one plan examiner, but with as many as 10 for a new building and 15 for a major alteration.

After Mr. Boddington, who is the president of the co-op board at No. 115, spoke to a plan examiner at the Buildings Department in 2006, he received a letter from Barry E. Zweigbaum, a lawyer representing the Raths.

The task requires sweeping personnel changes within the department, the hiring of competent enforcement officers and knowledgeable plans examiners who will not be subject to outside pressures to deviate or weaken code requirements.

His mother is a building-plans examiner for the City of Toronto.