“When we’re having professionals like engineers and outside parties that are getting to a point where they refuse to work in Kansas City, Missouri, because of the difficulty of the city reviewing and passing things under the new code, it puts builders in a very difficult position,” Brian Tebbenkamp, who owns Patriot Homes, told KMBC Reporter Matt Evans.
Evans reached out to learn more about Tebbenkamp’s recent testimony on Capitol Hill.
“If you’re a smaller builder, you know, say you’re only doing a couple of homes a year. And your engineer wants to charge three or four times as much as he would to, say, work in Lee’s Summit. And he’s going to charge that to you in Kansas City for the same house,” Tebbenkamp told Evans. “I mean, that becomes more of a cost decision at that point. Is your client or the homeowner going to be able to pay that?”
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