Posted on 06/30/2025 10:12:30 AM PDT by grundle
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
June 30, 2025
The very first time that I heard California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass say that they were creating a “one stop center” that would make it “easy” for fire victims to get a building permit, I knew they were lying.
These 3 screenshots from their own website prove that they were lying.
This is the link to their website:
https://recovery.lacounty.gov/rebuilding/permitting-progress-dashboard/
This first screenshot is dated June 30, 2025.
These other two screen shots are close ups taken from that first screenshot.
This close up shows that from March 1 through June 30, 2025, more than 5,000 fire victims visited the “one stop center.” I’m assuming that these were more than 5,000 unique fire victims, and none of them went more than once, because it’s called a “one stop center.”
This other close up shows that as of June 30, 2025, 948 fire victims had applied for permits to rebuild their homes.
But out of those 948 requests for permits, only 44 have been approved.
That’s less than 5% of building permit requests that have actually been approved.
And when we take into account that more than 5,000 unique fire victims have visited the “one stop center,” and that only 44 building permits have been approved, that’s actually means that less than 1% of the fire victims who visited the “one stop center” have received permission to rebuild their homes.
Less than 1%.
So the claim by Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass that their “one stop center” would make it “easy” for fire victims to get a building permit was a complete lie.
Of course it’s possible that some fire victims did in fact visit the “one stop center” more than once. But if that is the case, then it only proves that the phrase “one stop center” was a lie.
Anyway, given the huge number of homes that burned down, it’s an absolute disgrace that only 44 building permits have been approved.
Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass were lying when they said it would be “easy” for fire victims to get a building permit.
Gavin Newsom is a greasy worm.
I wonder what the most common reasons each time are that the permit issuing is being delayed or denied? Are there more details available?
DemonicRATS lied???
In other news, water is wet, and Representative Jasmine Crockett says something idiotic ...
Communists lie???
Depends on what your definition of easy is...
Well, THEIR homes were unaffected, so, it’s okay then. 😤
Keep voting democrat morons.
I’m thinking there are well-connected billionaires and not a few “suddenly wealthy” politicians who are hoping to make a financial killing if they can just wait out the property owners; taking advantage of a “fire sale” of sorts.
There should be hourly ads running on all TV channels with Newsome and Bass talking about how easy it would be to get permits to rebuild and many requests vs approvals there have been. Californians need to know who’s behind their government that doesn’t work for average citizens.
K-Bass and Newscum need to get off their butts and get downtown LA cleaned up before “broken windows” crime REALLY takes off.
How many different houses and stores and businesses) are “officially” declared “burnt down” - and thus eligible to be condemned for Los Angeles/Karen Bass Olympic Village re-housing-b y-government dictate for her 2028 Olympics Potemkin Villages?
They really should change the way they are allowed to build houses in that area. There are houses that have survived these fires prior.
They are not built like a typical stick framed houses in 90% of our country.
This is no different than in the Caribbean they build a structure out of reinforced concrete and cinder blocks. The houses are made to withstand 150 mph winds and storm surge.
IF you want to rebuild in a fire prone area then you need to build a FIRE PROOF structure. Maybe you also require ALL new houses to have an in ground pool to be able to draw water from. Many houses that had sprinkler systems drawing water from their own pool survived when the house next door burned to the ground.
Pretty much all of the people that can afford a house currently in Pacific Palisades are very wealthy. Even IF they inherited the house from their parents. They land the house sits on is worth $2 million or more.
IF you don’t want to go through the building process then they should sell the lot.
One Florida county guidebook listing documentation requirements is 24 pages long:
Expedite the permits so all these democrats can rebuild. When they are all done, burn it down again.
Trump warned them about this. Hope he follows up.
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