building permit
Americannoun
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The presence of ammonia near the site could lead to the annulment of the building permit, he added.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
The foundations are for a hotel extension that attracted so much controversy last year that the country's top administrative court ended up temporarily blocking its building permit.
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
On Holdorff Polhill’s block of Iliff Street, the rebuilding process was underway for nine out of 27 destroyed homes as of early December, according to a Times analysis of Los Angeles city building permit records.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025
The city of Narva granted a building permit for the facility in 4½ months, a speed that Mayor Katri Raik said was the fastest possible under the country’s laws.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025
I also pull the building permit for the Gardens of Glenwood to show that the interior space has the proper drainage, and that in the original plans, they didn't show rocks, but plants.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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