...I spent two and a half years obtaining permits, navigating a labyrinthine zoning department and paying for not only architectural plans but geological surveys, sewer permits, street improvement clearances, an inventory of “California protected trees” performed by a state-licensed arborist and, most of all, fighting an unhinged neighbor who mobilized the entire block against me on the pretense that I had to build a sidewalk in front of my house even though the entire neighborhood is composed of craggy hillsides and there are no sidewalks anywhere.
In California, there are a hundred people who can say "no," and no one who can say "yes."
BOTTOM LINE: when you restrict supply, prices go up.
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