- Plans were submitted
- Approvals were processed
- Utilities were connected
- Occupancy occurred
- State agencies remained present throughout
If the project was illegal from inception, then the state itself was either:
- Complicit, or
- Criminally negligent
There is no third option.
A regulator cannot sleep through twenty years of construction and then pretend it discovered illegality yesterday.
Punish the Builder. Punish the Officials. Not Just the End User.
A functioning legal system distinguishes between:









































