By the time the state air board, the county board and the “neighborhood” board got done with us, we built the thing in Reno.
A company near my old California location, moved out of renting a group of small units, into a nearby larger building that they bought. The California regulators would not allow them to use one of their old machines in the new building. So what they did, was have the inspectors look at the building without that machinery. Then afterward, they moved that machinery into the building. That is the only way to do business in California. In the long run, it has led to the creation of numerous small regional mafias. I kid you not. Was in a restaurant recently that allowed smoking in the greater Los Angeles area. Run by an ethnic mob. State cannot touch them.