Say, remember when Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass pledged to get government out of the way of rebuilding efforts after the catastrophic firestorms they both made exponentially worse? How red tape would get cut, costs slashed, and the heavens moved to see families return to the Palisades, Altadena, and other devastated areas?
That was then, of course. Now the LA Times and progressives are asking why they shouldn’t remake the Palisades et al into their Utopia instead. They have taken a page out of Rahm Emanuel’s playbook and now wonder whether to allow a perfectly good crisis to go to waste:
Along with the building code enhancements that are likely to emerge after these fires, change could come through land use innovations such as buying out landowners who don’t want to rebuild, putting restrictions on investors and swapping development rights.
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