At a recent CityLaw Breakfast, I asked the Commissioner exactly this question: given her desire, and the Mayor's, for transparency in government and governance, how would the increase in electronic filing of building plans, with specialized software, thereby making public review even more difficult, be achieved without making these applications and architectural renderings publicly accessible.

Today we have our answer.

Nothing in these regs makes building harder, except that public oversight makes law compliance more likely.

I explained that I had been in adversarial relationship with her department, and had sued several times.

She was gracious in reply, and in agreement, we now see.