Bass overhauls resi, commercial permitting after “productive” Trump meeting

Hot off her publicized meeting with President Donald Trump, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is taking a swing at one of the city’s most persistent development bottlenecks.  On Monday, Bass signed an executive order aimed at overhauling the city’s notoriously slow permit approval process in a move designed to accelerate housing production and business openings as officials grapple with both a deepening affordability crisis and a massive wildfire recovery effort, Realtor.com reported.  Bass blamed the city’s housing crisis on “a development permitting process that is too often fragmented, unpredictable and uncoordinated across departments,” creating “a barrier to development.”  The mayor’s […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.