Matt Mahan

Sure, that's valid.

But it can't take as long as it does.

And this is where I actually think technology can be really helpful.

It ought to be.

be that we have inventoried things in advance and it doesn't take a year to do a one-off bespoke study where we have this cottage industry of consultants who make millions of dollars taking a year or more to study everything.

We ought to be able to run it against a database and say, okay, here's how many people are living here.

Here's the decibel level.

You can't be hammering a nail after 8 p.m.

or whatever.

Yeah, exactly.

And actually, that's part of my plan.

I put up my big housing plan on mayhemfromcalifornia.com, and it's my 15-point plan for how we unbreak the housing market in California.

One of the 15 points is to require that conforming projects for infill get that building permit within 30 days.

Yeah, totally.

I also think we're so risk averse and worried about litigation.

California is probably the most litigious place on earth that we're scared of ever making a mistake.

I mean, I would rather that we bias toward action when we have a crisis like our shortage of housing and our affordability crisis that's pushing working families to the brink, causing people to leave our state, creating so much stress and heartache for folks.

Let's bias toward action, particularly when you're in an urban area.

Let's build.

My sense is that in California, we do.