re: Man builds city park stairs for $550 - City says it will cost $65,000

I completely understand that the stairs aren't up to code, etc, etc, etc.

The irony is, if you read the article, that the city was fine with the rocky slope and had no plans to build stairs until he did it. Despite multiple people falling down. It appears they only got interested in spending a butt ton of money once he fixed the problem.

That being said, I fully realize you can't have citizens running around and undercutting fat government titty suckers by building things for pennies on the bidded dollar.