Villaraigosa Cuts the Red Tape, Opens New Permitting Office

To help make it easier for developers to obtain permits, today Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa opened a new office to handle the bureaucracy. "The Development Services Case Management Office will include staffers from the planning, building and safety, engineering, transportation and water and power departments," explains KPCC.

Currently, the permit process takes the efforts of a minimum of five different departments in the City of Los Angeles. (The Department of Redundancy Department, perhaps among them.) The new office will pair up a major project with a case manager to help make it through all that red tape.

Says the Mayor: "We're working across departments to improve customer service, shorten review timelines and make it easier to do development in L.A. Today you can see results."

Imagine if all dealings with the City were this straightforward? Sigh.

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By Lindsay William-Ross in News on July 12, 2011 5:40 PM

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Matthew Epstein

LA already has at least 3 complete Building Service Centers, One downtown, one in West LA and one in Van Nuys. They all work pretty well and have case managers, etc. Does this article refer to a new one somewhere? Has the city hired new planners and plan checkers? The author fails to report the facts and makes it sound like there's something new and that it's just about bureaucracy.

hN9S9

This guy is only good for hand-shaking and ribbon cutting.

BongBong

Now how about cutting taxes or making LA a Special Economic Zone to attract businesses from all over the world? Raising taxes BAD (no incentive to start businesses or hire people). Cutting taxes GOOD (more incentive to take risks by starting companies and hire people). It just works that way.