The county's Department of Planning and Building denied a resident's application to run a 50-foot orange extension cord across his driveway Tuesday, citing a failure to meet minimum typographical standards on the required structural blueprints.
Records show local homeowner Marcus Higgins submitted a 412-page proposal seeking municipal approval to temporarily route power from his garage outlet to an electric pressure washer. The application was summarily dismissed after clerks discovered the topographic map of the front lawn was annotated in 11-point Calibri rather than the statutorily mandated 12-point Times New Roman.
We simply cannot assess the environmental impact of an electrical cord resting on a begonia bed if the pedestrian safety addendums are rendered in an illegible typeface.
Gable noted that the board had been prepared to approve the project pending a mandatory 30-day public comment period, as Higgins had already successfully completed the required shadow-cast studies for the two hours the cord would lay across the concrete. However, the typographical error immediately triggered an automatic six-month review freeze and a $450 resubmission penalty.
At press time, Higgins was reportedly appealing a separate citation issued after he attempted to plug the pressure washer directly into a kitchen outlet, an act classified by the county as an unzoned interstate power transmission.