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Elex Michaelson
@Elex_Michaelson
UPDATE:
@GavinNewsom
signed a series of executive orders to try and expedite the rebuilding process.
@CAgovernor
’s office says they include: -Suspend CEQA review and California Coastal Act permitting for reconstruction of properties substantially damaged or destroyed in recent Southern California wildfires. -Direct state agencies to identify additional permitting requirements, including provisions of the Building Code, that can safely be suspended or streamlined to accelerate rebuilding and make it more affordable. -Extend protections against price gouging on building materials, storage services, construction, and other essential goods and services to January 7, 2026, in Los Angeles County. The Governor also says he’s working with legislative leaders on new legislative solutions to cut through red tape.
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Elex Michaelson
@Elex_Michaelson
NEWS: @GavinNewsom says he's working on executive orders & new laws to make it easier to rebuild in areas impacted by the fires. He says that includes working with the Coastal Commission. "We'll be presenting those in a matter of days & not just weeks." Full interview with
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David Gaw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
@davidgaw
It will be interesting watching how his directive to make rebuilding faster and easier conflicts with his directive to "stop price gouging"— which to the extent it has any effect will mean to cap prices below the real market price and create construction material shortages.
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Derlesu 🙏🏽
@derlesu
He needs to put a few inspectors onsite 5 days a week.... Like 3 in Altadena and 5 in palasades... Making it easier for licensed contractors
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Paris-Ortiz-Wines
@ParisOrtizWines
Let’s go. This is the type of housing reforms we’ve needed. CEQA has been the instrument of NIMBYs, exacerbating the lack of housing, urban sprawl, & car dependency.
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Derlesu 🙏🏽
@derlesu
Red tape generates more fees for county and state. Its not for safety.. That's why red tape can be skipped...
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Ian Miller
@ianmSC
At least they’re admitting that the California coastal commission is a useless waste of time and money
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Dogula
@Dogula66
First I'd like a solid definition of "price gouging." When materials are scarce, prices increase. As does labor when there aren't enough people to do it. Feds came out to jobsites after our fire dressed in flack jackets and riot guns checking contractors' licenses and workers'
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Dug
@duginabox
IF these are good changes then WHY did they have to wait for a fire to enact them? Good policy should be in effect in good times and bad. Few exceptions to this rule. Housing permits/red tape isn't one.
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Brittney Hopper 🇺🇸🇮🇱
@brittneytv
Too little too late, Elex. Come on. Dig deep and ask harder hitting questions !!!!!! This is disgusting use of mismanagement of one of the highest taxed place in the country!!!
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AdamInHTownTX
@AdamInHTownTX
Why isn't it like this all the time in California? Why does red tape only get cut after hundreds of billions of dollars worth of property burn down?
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Beaker
@emeksv
Someone should ask him why any regulations which can 'safely be suspended' would ever be reinstated, indeed why they were ever regulations to begin with.
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Bryan Eric Slab
@333333BS
I could be wrong but is seems that Gav is basically suspending all the policies created by Democrats that hinder his states citizens, namely the lower to mid earning lighter skinned citizens from growth and prosperity, to help his wealthy and/or celebrity Democrat supporters.
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Sullivan Augustine
@SullyAugustine
"-Extend protections against price gouging on building materials, storage services, construction, and other essential goods and services to January 7, 2026, in Los Angeles County." That's sure to cause suppliers to be eager to ship supplies to California expeditiously even
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Jane Wisdom
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All good steps - good time to expose/learn how the red tape has been so destructive. Previously he has not been unable to solve other emergency/crisis conditions in California i.e. homelessness, often has been his "red tape" and his unelected bureaucracies that have helped make
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Cath
@Catheri24117613
How long do you think it will take for LA bureaucrats to review and revise building codes and zoning ordinances? What input will they listen to (and for how long) from 'environmentalists' who want to save some fish and insects and plants?
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Raj Patel
@RillaRaj
So why did we have all this red tape in the first place? Did it take a tragedy of this proportion to realize that the burden of such regulations was stifling and regressive? What are we going to learn from this? Are we going to expect more deregulation and common sense
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The Guy
@Guygies
"Extend protections against price gouging ..." i.e. dramatically slow the delivery of building materials.
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Steven A
@Signmecool
And people wonder if X is effective or not? I rest my case! The people have the power to hold politicians accountable in near real time! No mailing letters of demand or tallying up petetions anymore! X is able to do what even Main Stream media cannot do right now! Power to the
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Airborne
@abnheel
Why did it take wealthy individuals to lose their homes to do something like this? Thousands of lower income Californians could have benefitted for years if they didn't face these hurdles that Gavin has instituted over time.
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JJ 🇺🇸
@johnjimenezz
@GavinNewsom
political career is over, he knows it and those lobbyists around do as well. He’ll resign as the investigations begin, the findings of miss handling of California tax dollars is what will end his career. $20+ billion spent to fix homelessness in the state, where
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Steven A
@Signmecool
And people wonder if X is effective or not? I rest my case! The people have the power to hold politicians accountable in near real time! No mailing letters of demand or tallying up petetions anymore! X is able to do what even Main Stream media cannot do right now! Power to the
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Kyle Hunter, FRMetS
@KyleHunter
Hogwash! Here comes another "Build Back Better." Where the "better" means high-density housing instead of private individual homes. Think you'll get a permit to build your house back, think again. The Communists are coming for your private property. Just watch.
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Kyle Hunter, FRMetS
@KyleHunter
Democrats: Let's cut the red tape we created. Let's cut high grocery prices we created. Let's cut high gas prices we created. Let's cut the crime and looting we created.
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LeeZ
@LeeCZ73
"-Extend protections against price gouging on building materials, storage services, construction, and other essential goods and services to January 7, 2026, in Los Angeles County." This will substantially slow rebuilding efforts. The best way to ensure that ample rebuilding
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David G. Dillon 🇺🇦🇮🇱
@davidgdillon
Uh oh. “protections against price gouging on building materials, storage services, construction, and other essential goods and services to January 7, 2026, in Los Angeles County.” Too bad. I bet some of those folks could pay more and some enterprising folks would round up and
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bsharif
@beasharif
Why did it take this catastrophic event to get red if red tape? Will it include homeless buildings too?
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Cobalt
@cobaltblue9875
How many will solve the puzzle that the rich elite love big government and are responsible for these laws in the first place. It's part of their way of climbing the ladder then kicking the ladder down after they get up. If the laws impede them, then they change them, but only for
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Yoo Sok
@KimYooSok
How about getting rid of union labor requirements and DEI hiring practices for the commercial properties?
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Kim Iversen 🇺🇸
@KimIversenShow
Oh yeah ok…build back up really quickly (in an area you probably shouldn’t have built in to begin with) and sit back and watch all these rushed builds fall off the hill in a mudslide. Idiotic. Anything to make rich people happy.
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xonkd
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xonkd
@xonkd7
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Have to keep those donors fawning over him. The rest of us rubes are stuck with the inability to even cut down trees in our own backyard that threaten our houses, the neighbors and families. Years and $$$$ to get approval to do simplest additions.
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Joshua Heard
@joshuatheard
Price caps are what caused the insurance companies to stop writing policies. He's repeating the same mistakes that got us into this mess.
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Todd Andrews
@ToddAndrews44
The protections on "price gouging" will do nothing but limit supplies, and probably more than counteract the potential effects of the other reasonable ideas.
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2shy2fly
@2shy2fly2025
Why does it take a disaster compounded by ineptitude to streamline permitting processes? Why not just make it permanent? I really hate Sacramento.
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LP2
@lpparsons
California will be constructing some monstrous apartment complexes. Just wait. They’ll look like compounds.
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