This is Commifornia...
"I had a long talk with my barber today. She still can’t get permits approved to rebuild the rental duplexes she lost in the Altadena fire. She hired an architect to draw and submit full plans to reconstruct duplex on each lot. The city waited five months to reject them because she didn’t hire a landscape architect to submit full color plans detailing exactly which shrubs, plants, artificial turf, rock landscaping, will be in place. So she hired a landscape architect and submitted everything they requested. The city rejected their permits on Monday telling her each two story duplex must be different colors on each floor and she needs to submit the actual stucco that will be used so the city can approve the texture. She has now paid over $10,000 in architectural and landscape architectural plans. Her insurance is paying for lost monthly rental income but that ends in November. She thinks the city is making people wait until they can no longer afford to hold on so they sell to BlackRock or some Chinese billionaire."