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Contractor tells council repeated plan losses, delays by Meriden building department cost clients money
Meriden City Council · August 4, 2025
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Summary
Small-contractor Miguel Castro told the council an eight-month permit review involved lost plans and late requests for surveys and engineering, costing his client about $2,000 in revisions and causing contractor withdrawals; he urged council attention to departmental practices.
During public comment Miguel Castro, a Meriden contractor, described an eight-month permitting process in which plans submitted to the building department were repeatedly misplaced, then later found and again lost. Castro said revisions prompted by building staff led to additional client…
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