PREVIEW: PACIFIC PALISADES: Julia Cartwright of American Institute for Economic Research comments on the explanation why the neighborhood has not been rebuilt better than ever. More.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
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| 0:22.5 | Julia Cartwright, a senior research fellow law and economics at the American Institute for Economic |
| 0:27.7 | Research about California after the wildfires. Why is it still a ruin to look from the drone |
| 0:35.0 | shots of Pacific Palisades in Malibu and neighborhoods elsewhere |
| 0:39.9 | in Los Angeles that were hit by the fire. Why still a ruin? The answer begins with the word |
| 0:46.4 | regulation. Not only Sacramento, but local, provincial, county, regulation. That's why it's not rebuilt. There are other reasons, other, regulation. |
| 0:56.3 | That's why it's not rebuilt. |
| 0:58.6 | There are other reasons, other contributors, |
| 1:00.9 | but that's the one I understand. |
| 1:03.8 | It's not rebuilt because they don't want to rebuild. |
| 1:07.8 | Unless, here's Julia to explain, |
| 1:12.8 | for example, one piece of the story down by the beach. |
| 1:15.8 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:26.1 | So I think Governor Newsom can do a lot with the overarching California rules, but many of these building codes have to do with city or county specific. |
| 1:30.8 | So the Palisades, for example, is going to be like, they have very strict building |
| 1:35.9 | codes. One of the things, and as you can imagine, near the beach, height restrictions are |
| 1:41.8 | very strict in beach locations because people want a view of the ocean. |
| 1:50.0 | So Governor Newsom is pushing for slight deregulation. |
| 1:56.0 | AB 130 and AB 131 are a big step towards that, but it's really going to depend on the more |
| 2:03.1 | local municipality if they are serious about revisiting their building codes. |
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