This Tuesday, LA County Commission will vote on a clusterf*ck resolution to speed the rebuilding of firetraps -- while exempting "fire impacted communities" from virtually all state housing laws for the next 5 years.
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The second, since most houses were ignited by embers that can be windblown 3-5 MILES, is less important.
The 5 feet closest to the home are important-nothing flammable there.
After that, more important the house not support flame.
Embers can blow for MILES in 100mph winds, ignite wood homes. Concrete & metal don't burn.
Remove flammable stuff against home (decks, firewood) put 1/8" screen on vents, tempered glass windows, nonmelting frames.
Short of condemning everything, a land-readjustment procedure or local option to sell neighborhoods by supermajority vote might be helpful. (In places where better grid would materially improve safety.)
They also recently demolished my old high school after someone leaked that it wasn't retrofitted at all.
- Each rebuild, even if nominally "like for like," is going to be better to some degree than the original, just because of changes in bldg tech.
- Even without these waivers, could the AHJ force an owner to rebuild for higher density?
Re density, I doubt the AHJ can force the owner of a destroyed house to build back a 4-plex.
The issue is whether the proposed waivers are improperly affecting RHNA plans *outside* the fire area.
Ideally, I would like to see the owner of a house be *allowed* to build a 4-plex, but not required.
They paid consultants to tell them all this in 2018, and then did nothing at all. They had the gall to hold a press conference and say that the fires were unprecedented and no one warned them. They lie.
I want to say it's more LACDRP management who want to avoid more work. Regardless people should comment, it is Item 13-C on the agenda. https://publiccomment.bos.lacounty.gov/
I figured there'd be some nonsense after the fires, but nothing like this.
The County proposes a two-track permitting system: fast lane for like-for-like rebuilds; slow lane for everything else.
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the houses and neighborhoods that just burned to the ground? definitely, rebuild them just like they were 🙄
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Bergmannstrasse and burned Altadena before,
aerial view, same scale. Burned, not same scale
https://www.monolithic.org/benefits/benefits-survivability/monolithic-dome-survives-texas-wildfire
LA streets should look like CITY streets!!
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@resist.bot is a good place to start they will connect you to just about anyone in your state
I would also see about gathering people to the city board or who ever has a responsible for writing this up and protest
This is rank exploitation of tragedy for NIMBYism. The stench is awful.
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*Let people build and live in ADUs before main houses, so fire victims can get housed sooner.
* In non-very-high-fire-severity areas, streamline SB 9 lot splits to help people pay for rebuilding their houses.
*Encourage and streamline use of density bonus, to get more desperately needed housing.
Who was calling on the supervisors to do this? Who is super happy with this vote?
(Or who did the supervisors imagine would be mad at them if they didn't vote this way?)
Genuine question!