Remember the halcyon days after the Los Angeles fire–you know, the one started by arsonists armed with climate change propane torches and power lines kept in disrepair–when the governor of California and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, promised that they would cut through all the red tape and get rebuilding going quickly.
Good times. Good times indeed.
Well, promises made, promises kept. The bureaucracy kicked into high gear and the permits for building are flying off the bureaucrats’ desks and out the doors of City Hall at breakneck pace.
And, last week, the Mayor’s “recovery czar,” Steve Soboroff, resigned. You might remember that Soboroff was hired shortly after Bass returned from Africa (despite being warned about high fire danger) to lead the first phase of the city’s rebuilding effort. pic.twitter.com/uNp8F9NTWG
— Will O’Neill…
