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| California Coastal Commission is effectively seizing much of the land lost in the Pacific Palisades fire |
| 2025-05-19 |
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Oh, wotta surprise! |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 As predicted by just about everybody, and the CCC knows they're untouchable. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2025-05-19 14:39 |
| #6 Houses side-by-side and consuming most of their lots are not capable of a functioning septic system, especially on sandstone |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-05-19 13:31 |
| #5 Aaaaand Commiefornia strikes again! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2025-05-19 13:15 |
| #4 About those septic systems - ever hear of a grandfather clause? The way things work in California, it'd take years if not decades to run a sewer line up Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. And, unless the city is willing to pay to pay for it, let the people rebuild. Do NOT use the fire as an excuse to steal their property. It was the city that allowed those homes to be built in the first place and it was the city and the state that failed to prevent the fire or to fight it effectively once it started. The city and the state are at fault here, not the homeowners. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-05-19 11:46 |
| #3 Ronald Reagan lived in Pacific Palisades. You cannot paint all these people with the same brush. And ground upgrades? What is that? These people, no matter what you think of them, paid good money for their homes. It's true that many of those homes should have never been built because of the risk of exactly what happened. It's true that many of them probably vote for Democrats. Then the Democrat office holders like Newsom and Bass betrayed them by their failure to provide the protections and services that people rightfully expect when they pay their property taxes. Nonetheless, you don't just deprive people of their property unless you're a communist. Then there is the suspicion that these fires were set intentionally and allowed to destroy all these homes so that wealthy, elite insiders could steal that land. That is a suspicion in Lahina and now it's a suspicion in Malibu and Pacific Palisades. When government acts in inexplicable ways, people are left with their imagination to fill in the blanks. That's when conspiracy theories thrive. With a governor like Gavin Newsom and a mayor like Karen Bass, who can blame them? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-05-19 11:35 |
| #2 Jai, that's just it. I have no sympathy for them. But I would like them to stay in California. They deserve it. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2025-05-19 11:13 |
| #1 Oh, boo-fuckity-hoo for the wealthy pricks who live on the beach in Malibu. How does anyone feel one shred of sympathy for them? To say nothing of the fact that they're Sierra Club and Democrat and voted for this shit. It makes you wonder how effective propaganda is today that people actually feel like these people are being oppressed and are the good guys. Good guys don't live in Malibu. Or Pacific Palisades. Or anywhere in LA, really. But they'll flee and bring their destructive bullshit with them like they're doing to Texas. |
| Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-05-19 08:06 |