La County officials have temporarily dismissed state housing laws as residents have been rebuilt in the fire, and they have attracted the anger of the housing lawyers, accusing the authorities of sliding efforts to increase affordable housing.
County Supervisors Catherine Bargear and Lindsay Harvat, represent black, representation of black by this month's wildfire, Movement Tuesday with 41 steps that department leaders want to expedite the recovery process.
In this, Gow Gavin Newsome must temporarily exempt from the most important housing laws of a state, which is aimed at accelerating the creation of affordable housing, including parts of it. Senate Bill 330, Aimed at protecting affordable housing, and Dense Bonus Act, It promotes developers to create new units.
The head of the District Planning Department, Amy Bodk, said he hoped that state laws would disrupt the recovery, promoting the density at the expense of homeowners.
“We understand the need to suspend some of these policies in order to provide the ability to return to the community,” he said at a meeting of the Supervisory Committee on Tuesday that he wanted to ask for a five -year discount, adding that Altadeena and some of the non -incorporated communities were burned by the policed fire.
“We are not antihousing,” he said. “We are someone who does not pay attention to calling antihousing.”
At the meeting, housing lawyers argued that the County's waiver proposal would reduce many restrictions, excluding laws that aims to resolve the region's affordable home crisis.
“It goes in a completely wrong direction,” said Nolan Gray, a senior director of law and research California yimbyOvarian Laws have prompted the construction of thousands of affordable units across the state. “There is a lot here. It has no connection to helping people to recreate.”
U.C. Davis's law professor Chris Elmentorf reads California Housing ActHe said the county was very detailed in demanding discounts in the “unregulated” fire -affected communities “.
“If the goal is to take people to their communities as quickly as possible, shouldn't it be the goal of building housing as quickly as possible in those communities?” He said.
Barker, who represents Altadeena, said that County was not interested in increasing housing, “cannot be further from the truth.”
It is not clear whether the governor will agree with County's waiver request, but he hoped that the letter would be the starting point for the conversation with the state.
These comments came as part of a major debate on how the county should be prepared for the advent of new buildings in areas reduced. Bhtek said the project department responsible for allowing it at an unintended LA County is looking for 8,000 permit applications from homeowners who wish to rebuild after the Eaton fire and 600 people from the policy fire.
He said, “This is going to break our department,” he said, without making employees beef. “
Mark Besthella, head of the County Public Works Department, said his company was similarly preparing for an enormous effort to repair applications in areas where the fire was in the fire.
“If we meet the needs of the community, a small public works department must be created, especially for the Altatena area,” he told the supervisors on Tuesday.
District officials believe that repair and reconstruction are likely to spend billions of dollars, most of which will come from the central government. On Tuesday, the White House said the Trillians were disabled in federal grants and loans that were not compatible with the priorities of the Trump administration. The order was quickly blocked by a federal judge.
“We are very concerned about it,” County's chief executive Fesia Davenbord said. “We need to know what the right impact on the County is.”