Suffolk regulates permit expediters
Photo credit: Daniel Brennan | Expeditor Sal Malguarnera, 59, of Port Jefferson, looks over a building plan at the Building Department of the Brookhaven Town Hall in Farmingville. (Jan. 16, 2013)
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Sal Malguarnera is such a fixture at the Brookhaven Town building department that he knows which clerks are battling colds. He can hear other applicants from across the counter and immediately identify their problems.
He's an expediter -- working for fees to help property owners manage the labyrinthine municipal permitting process -- and he and dozens like him have come under regulation on...
