Say, remember how Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass promised victims of the wildfires in Los Angeles that they would clear away all the red tape to allow them to rebuild ASAP? No worries, they claimed.
Perhaps they may ultimately follow through on that promise, but worries there are already. Two county supervisors have asked Newsom to follow through on his promise by waiving a number of requirements that favor high-density housing. And progressive advocates are having none of that, the LA Times reports today:
At the meeting, housing advocates contended that the county‘s waiver proposal would slash too many restrictions, bypassing laws aimed at solving the region’s affordable housing crisis.
“This is just totally going in the wrong direction,” said Nolan Gray, senior director of legislation and research for California YIMBY, noting that the laws have spurred…
