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Delia laughed. “Sounds expensive.”

Outside, a city bus rumbled past. Somewhere at the permit office, Priya was already reviewing the next impossible case. And Raleigh kept growing, one unpermitted dream at a time, slowly learning to say yes. city of raleigh building permits

Priya flipped through the photos. “Okay, the beam is undersized. But look—the wall was actually a 1920s addition to an original 1910 structure. That means the original building code when the wall was added is… fuzzy.” She pulled a worn city code book from her shelf, its pages soft as fabric. “If we reclassify this as a restoration of original volume rather than a new structural alteration , you don’t need a full engineering stamp. Just a letter of no-load impact.” Delia laughed

They would make her rebuild the wall. The beautiful, stupid, suffocating wall that had choked the room for ninety years. And Raleigh kept growing, one unpermitted dream at