"One" stop: say anything.

Last night the city council approved the planning department's convoluted scheme to move other department's offices, expand "counter space" and "workstations" and send the group they are displacing over to some rented office space. They call it the "one stop" planning dept shop.

But here's the mystery. We'll two mysteries if you count the mystery of why two councilmen who voted against it just two weeks ago suddenly decided its a champion idea.

The other mystery is last meeting they were proposing this "improvement" as a justification for raising fees for permits. The argument was "we will be providing faster, "more efficient" service, so we can justify collecting higher fees from "the developers."

Now, this week they claim the purpose of the musical offices is to do things more efficiently and save money. I guess that sounded better so maybe that's why it was approved this time.

So presumably now we can expect fees to be lowered? Unlike last meeting when they said the improvements would result in higher fees? Which is it? Or doesn't it matter? Is all that talk just "say whatever we need to say to get them to approve it?"