Rudy Pavich

The LAFD can't even clear it because they'll get fined and they're told by the state parks because these are protected, endangered plants.

So you care about how...

To let my house burn down, you don't care.

But now when I want to rebuild it, oh, it has to be this way.

But you don't, you'll tell me in court, the city of LA will say in court, oh, we have no responsibility to make sure your house doesn't burn down.

Well, then why do you care how I built it?

Yeah, and the fact that Mayor Bass, with the whole permitting thing, went out on the news and was like, I'm going to waive all the permits, either knowing she didn't have that authority or knew she didn't have the authority.

I don't know which is worse.

And to this day, the only way you can get your permit fee waived is if you build exactly the same footprint of the house they let burn down.

Who in their right mind is going to rebuild their exact house?

First off, you have to rebuild it now to be fire resilient.

There's all these new codes.

And now I know people...

who because of how deep the fire went and how they had to dig out a certain amount of toxic ash, now to get it like a certain level, they had to add more feet.

So now their permits aren't waived.

The fact that there was ever an issue where the city was going to charge any money and still is for the people's houses they let burn down is so insane.

I don't even talk about the fire stuff as much because that's how they go.

he only cares about the fire.

I go, no, my house is gone.

The palace is going to take 25 years to come back.