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Speaker 2: had a good week, so I might as well just
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Speaker 2: our beagles there, they're rescue beagles, not just regular rescue beagles.
Speaker 2: They are Beagle Freedom Project rescue beagles. And if you
Speaker 2: don't know anything about that, it's essentially an organization. Beagles
Speaker 2: are the number one test laboratory dog. I mean, just
Speaker 2: you think we were beyond that, but we're not, uh.
Speaker 2: And so both of our beagles, Sammy and Jackson, grew up.
Speaker 2: They spent the first five years of their lives their
Speaker 2: purebred beagles, and they were bred for animal testing. They
Speaker 2: were weaned from their moms and sold to laboratories, and
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Speaker 2: And Beagle Freedom Project gets these dogs so that they're
Speaker 2: not euthanized after testing and adopts them out. And so
Speaker 2: we have two of them. They both come, you know,
Speaker 2: pre loaded with PTSD and all sorts of issues and
Speaker 2: health issues because of the testing. So anyway, they're both
Speaker 2: our guys. We got lucky with both of them because
Speaker 2: they've been relatively healthy. But one of the things that
Speaker 2: beagles get as they get older, a lot of beagles
Speaker 2: get this kind of congenitive disc issue, Oh buddy, buddy
Speaker 2: in their neck. And as a result of that, he
Speaker 2: twisted his neck this week and he's in a lot
Speaker 2: of neck pain and we've got him on some meds,
Speaker 2: but he just had an episode right here in the studio,
Speaker 2: and I'm sorry about that. That everybody heard that go
Speaker 2: of it. He's not having a great weekend. We got
Speaker 2: him taken care of, but he's not having a great weekend.
Speaker 2: Of course, seeing him, all right, I think he's calm there.
Speaker 2: I'll have it dealt with, no problem. He just all
Speaker 2: of a sudden woke up and realized, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: professional radio, there's a dog in the studio with me.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's how it goes. All right, everybody, I'm
Speaker 2: so glad you've joined us on the program. You're like,
Speaker 2: is this the is this a pet show on KFI?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Is this a this an animal Well, it's sort of
Speaker 2: with me, it always sort of is animal friendly. Let's
Speaker 2: dive back into this conversation real quick about before I
Speaker 2: go back to the phones, about fast tracked building permits.
Speaker 2: So there is a city council person who who last
Speaker 2: week made a motion with the LA City Council to
Speaker 2: consider adopting a program in which builders, essentially that's the
Speaker 2: way it's described, will be able to fast track their
Speaker 2: own building permit approvals. And earlier in the show, I
Speaker 2: already explained that it's not exactly as simple as that.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's not as simple as that. It's about
Speaker 2: licensed architects and engineers, not a builder. This is not
Speaker 2: going to be open I think. I mean, that would
Speaker 2: be the first ever program like that. If they did
Speaker 2: for a general contractor to just say, oh, yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: just make sure everything's fine, I don't think that's a
Speaker 2: good idea at all. And this is a general contractor
Speaker 2: telling you that, I just don't think that's a good idea.
Speaker 2: But a licensed architect, the designers, okay, licensed architect and
Speaker 2: or a licensed civil or structural engineer who are willing
Speaker 2: to put their stamp on the plan and say, yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll take responsibility that these plans conform with all of
Speaker 2: the standards. That's what these kind of programs tend to go.
Speaker 2: Now LA has an their program yet they haven't even
Speaker 2: decided whether they're going to do it. But I think
Speaker 2: it's safe to say that if they did adopt this
Speaker 2: program for the sake of allowing permits to flow faster,
Speaker 2: that they would probably do it, not unlike the ones
Speaker 2: that are out there already working in existence, that they'd
Speaker 2: work off of an existing model. And you might be
Speaker 2: surprised to find out right here in southern California, San
Speaker 2: Diego has been doing this for some time. They have
Speaker 2: a version of this program and it hasn't been a
Speaker 2: problem for them, and City of Bellflower right here in
Speaker 2: the Greater LA area has had this in place for
Speaker 2: a little over ten years now and they haven't experienced
Speaker 2: big problems with it either. So how do I feel
Speaker 2: about that? Well, first of all, I have no problem
Speaker 2: if an architect or an engineer wants to step up
Speaker 2: and say I will essentially assume the role of plan
Speaker 2: check for this project, because guess who city plan checkers
Speaker 2: are when it comes to submitting your plans. They are
Speaker 2: architects and or licensed engineers. So these are the qualified
Speaker 2: people to do that. And if you're willing to take
Speaker 2: on the liability for that, and as a client, if
Speaker 2: you're willing to pay whatever extra to your architect or
Speaker 2: engineer that they're asking for to help protect them from liability,
Speaker 2: then you know, hey, it's fine. The city is not
Speaker 2: changing its standards at all. That's the most important thing
Speaker 2: to understand. So all the hoops will have to still
Speaker 2: be jumped through, but they're opening it up the possibility
Speaker 2: at least of opening it up to you know, independent review.
Speaker 2: First you can get started, So okay, We're going to
Speaker 2: trust you that you know what the standards are. And
Speaker 2: if you're willing to say, yeah, we'll take responsibility for
Speaker 2: the standards, then here instead of weeks and or months,
Speaker 2: here's your permit in you know, five days, go ahead
Speaker 2: and get started and a lot of people will take
Speaker 2: advantage of that. And will it help clear out the
Speaker 2: pipeline some Yeah, sure, sure, sure will. Do I have
Speaker 2: a problem with that? Nope? I do, though, want to
Speaker 2: let you know, and I mentioned this earlier, that just
Speaker 2: checking a drawing for inconsistencies with the building code is
Speaker 2: only a fraction of what plan check is in, especially
Speaker 2: here in southern California. It is, in my experience, usually
Speaker 2: not the building department that is always the slow or
Speaker 2: sticking point for plan check. Quite often it's the planning department.
Speaker 2: And these are different departments. The planning department handles zoning
Speaker 2: and zoning approvals, ugh zoning requirements. These are hoops that
Speaker 2: have to be jumped through, and often jumped through very slowly,
Speaker 2: and for a lot of the custom and ultra custom
Speaker 2: projects that I've been involved in, planning is almost always
Speaker 2: the stickier part. I mean, it's kind of a no brainer.
Speaker 2: We know how to build a house. Okay, we know
Speaker 2: how to draw a drawing to comport with all government
Speaker 2: codes in regards to the house. That's building plan check
Speaker 2: one oh one. But for every district, for every area
Speaker 2: in southern California, especially ones that are near the coast,
Speaker 2: especially ones that are in hillside areas. Oh, the things
Speaker 2: that can happen. If you want an example of that,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you right now. Pacific Palisades is governed by
Speaker 2: the Pacific Palisades Commercial Village and Neighborhoods Specific Plan. That's
Speaker 2: zoning issue. Also, parts of it are in the Brentwood
Speaker 2: Pacific Palisades Community Plan. Parts are governed by Brentwood Pacific
Speaker 2: Palisades Dual Coastal Plan Zone, which is another set of requirements.
Speaker 2: Other parts are governed by the Mulholland Scenic Parkway Specific Plan,
Speaker 2: the Hillside Ordnance, the relatively new anti Mansioning Ordinance for
Speaker 2: La City, and some homes in Pacific Palisades are also
Speaker 2: subject to the dreaded California Coastal Commission. None of the
Speaker 2: things that I just mentioned have anything to do with
Speaker 2: building codes or the general building Code, as in, like
Speaker 2: how shall how tall should a door be and you
Speaker 2: know where should the smoke detectors be located?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, that everything I just mentioned are specific neighborhood area
Speaker 2: zoning questions as to where can this house be located
Speaker 2: on this property? How large can the house be relative
Speaker 2: to the neighbors houses, how tall can it be? What
Speaker 2: about view sitelines? What about special wild open space considerations?
Speaker 2: What about coastal and just on and on and on
Speaker 2: and on top of that, there are other agencies that
Speaker 2: sign off, including the Fire Department, with every plan. None
Speaker 2: of these things have to do with those basic building
Speaker 2: codes that most everybody I think would think about. That
Speaker 2: must be what plan check is about. That's only a part.
Speaker 2: And so the point is that fast tracking the overall
Speaker 2: build is taking a lot into consideration, a lot that
Speaker 2: quite often gets controversial, and things that we have to
Speaker 2: work out with the planning department in order to get
Speaker 2: what we want built on a particular lot. I don't
Speaker 2: know how to ask track that. I don't know how
Speaker 2: anybody would other than just close their eyes to it
Speaker 2: upfront and then argue about it later, and that could
Speaker 2: cause all sorts of back end problems. So my point being,
Speaker 2: will this help some I think so. I'm a city
Speaker 2: of Bellflower, but Bellflower is a pretty flat, non controversial
Speaker 2: landscape area, so not a lot of crazy zoning things
Speaker 2: happening in Bellflower that you get when you get closer
Speaker 2: to the coast. So all in all, I have no
Speaker 2: issue with it. I just don't think anybody should expect
Speaker 2: that it's going to be a panacea that all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, in southern California, you can get a building
Speaker 2: permit in five days. Yeah, it won't really turn out
Speaker 2: that way for most people. All right, when we return,
Speaker 2: I'm going back to the phones. Yeah, Hi, house Whist,
Speaker 2: we're at your service. Thanks for joining us on the
Speaker 2: program this morning. We're talking all things your house, as
Speaker 2: we always do. We've been having a conversation about whether
Speaker 2: LA should adopt a fast track permit process where builders
Speaker 2: can essentially set up a situation where they can get
Speaker 2: permits pulled quickly by assuring that they themselves will do
Speaker 2: their own plan checking. Kind of giving my general understanding
Speaker 2: and opinion about that. Right now, we've got calls on
Speaker 2: the line. I want to go back to the phones
Speaker 2: and see what other problems I can solve or create.
Speaker 2: Who knows, let's talk to cal Real quick. Hey, cal,
Speaker 2: welcome home.
Speaker 4: Hey, do you know how you're doing? Good?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 4: Hey, I have a question about my will. A little
Speaker 4: while ago, probably nine months ago, we installed a three
Speaker 4: thousand gallon water tank, and the filters that we have
Speaker 4: keep getting this gelatinous stuff on the filters to the
Speaker 4: point where it's back to the water pressure in the house.
Speaker 4: I was wondering if there's anything I could add to
Speaker 4: the system to keep it from doing that.
Speaker 2: Uh, gelatinous substance on well.
Speaker 4: You know, you know what you know what it looks
Speaker 4: like when you drain an old water heater and the
Speaker 4: gelatine that's in the bottom, that opaque looking stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like a litt little yellow or reddish looking.
Speaker 4: Uh it's yeah, a little yellow, I would I would say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, likely likely it is like Gali and ella.
Speaker 2: Uh it's a bacteria. And don't freak out. Uh okay,
Speaker 2: it's don't freak out.
Speaker 5: You're like, oh no, we're over the die there, you know,
Speaker 5: uh from iron And it's a weird situation.
Speaker 2: But both iron and sulfur uh content. When the mixture
Speaker 2: is just right in well water, it can produce a
Speaker 2: gelatinous bacteria kind of slime that ends up building up
Speaker 2: in the water tank up against filters and so on.
Speaker 2: I don't want to there's no simple ad to it, okay,
Speaker 2: but there are ways of treating it. So if you
Speaker 2: were to go online and look at water filtration and
Speaker 2: specifically ask, you know, search for UH, there are filters
Speaker 2: that address it. There there's a there area. They're arienators
Speaker 2: and aerators, aerators UH and oxygenators that will knock that
Speaker 2: stuff out the biggest It's not a threat to you
Speaker 2: as far as my experience is, I've never heard anybody
Speaker 2: ever proving that that bacteria is is dangerous for human
Speaker 2: health in the water. But it may end up making
Speaker 2: the water distasteful at some point. And the war first
Speaker 2: threat though, is that to have too much of it
Speaker 2: around clinging to stuff. If it's the iron, if it's
Speaker 2: the sulfur based stuff, nobody likes the taste of it.
Speaker 2: If it's if it's iron based bacteria, then it's like
Speaker 2: a little you know, rust paste that that will just
Speaker 2: corrode pipes and cause all sorts of plumbing problems down
Speaker 2: the road. So you do want to address it, you
Speaker 2: do want to clear it out. UH. And there are
Speaker 2: specific devices and mechanisms for doing so.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: But so do that. Search online in your area for
Speaker 2: water treatment and get an expert out there to test
Speaker 2: the water and then recommend a solve. But the good news,
Speaker 2: cal is that it can be handled. It can be handled.
Speaker 2: You will probably have to purchase a little extra equipment
Speaker 2: to just have it as a permanent part of your
Speaker 2: well water and tank system, and you should if that's
Speaker 2: what you're experiencing. But then no worries, and in the meantime,
Speaker 2: don't worry about it affecting you because I don't believe
Speaker 2: that it's every that those things are toxic to us
Speaker 2: in any way. Just yucky. Thanks for the question, my friend.
Speaker 2: All right, right after some news, I'm going to jump
Speaker 2: back on the line and we'll answer some more. How's
Speaker 2: that sound all right?
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Speaker 2: Right now, taking some calls, I'm gonna go back to
Speaker 2: the phones, answer some questions. Let's talk to lynn A Linn.
Speaker 2: Welcome home, Hi, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm having a situation in my garage. There's what's
Speaker 3: called f fluorescence up to the concrete, and I was
Speaker 3: wondering the best way to take care of it because
Speaker 3: it's breaking up the concrete, slowly but.
Speaker 2: Surely breaking up the concrete. So describe that to me.
Speaker 3: It is like a white powdery substance.
Speaker 7: It started out very small, and then after many many years,
Speaker 7: it's kind of traveled a little bit and it's and
Speaker 7: from time to time the concrete just what gives way
Speaker 7: and breaks off.
Speaker 2: Okay, the best thing to do with that fluorescence is
Speaker 2: just clean it up, clean it up, just kind of
Speaker 2: keep on top of it. Efflorescence is it only very
Speaker 2: very very very rarely does any significant damage to concrete.
Speaker 2: Efflorescence is not the concrete dissolving. It is by definition,
Speaker 2: it is moisture in the concrete. For whatever reason. Because
Speaker 2: concrete is a porous stone, moisture passes through it. Moisture
Speaker 2: for some reason is coming up through the concrete if
Speaker 2: it's on the floor or it's on the stem wall,
Speaker 2: the side walls of a garage. It's most commonly found
Speaker 2: in garages or retaining walls outside. And as the water
Speaker 2: moves through, the water has minerals in it, salts and
Speaker 2: what have you, and the water evaporates and it leaves
Speaker 2: the salt behind. And that's basically what you're looking at.
Speaker 2: You're looking at that white powdery substance is not the
Speaker 2: concrete disintegrating. It is the leftover minerals that were in
Speaker 2: the water that did not evaporate into the air. And
Speaker 2: but what will happen from time to time if we
Speaker 2: just ignore it completely, is that that salt and mineral
Speaker 2: content can build up and clog the pores of the concrete.
Speaker 2: And then then over time, if the if the moisture
Speaker 2: keeps coming through, then you might get a little surface
Speaker 2: popping of the actual cement itself because the water has
Speaker 2: nowhere else to go, and so it pushes a little
Speaker 2: bit on the backside. It's not a serious problem, it's
Speaker 2: an esthetic problem. And if you just kind of keep
Speaker 2: it addressed and keep it cleaned up a little, any
Speaker 2: kind of a like a like a calcium lime kind
Speaker 2: of cleaner. Vinegar mixed with water cut in half is
Speaker 2: a great cleaner if you brush it off, clean it
Speaker 2: off then and sometimes people have found some luck if
Speaker 2: you let it all dry first and then put a
Speaker 2: little penetrating concrete sealurn, you might be able to just
Speaker 2: shut it down altogether. But just keep it cleaned up
Speaker 2: and don't worry about it. It's not going to mess
Speaker 2: up your slab floor other than the aesthetics.
Speaker 3: Oh wonderful, wonderful, that's a load off. Thank you.
Speaker 2: You're very very welcome. Thanks for calling, Lynn, Thanks for
Speaker 2: the question that the reason we take calls is not
Speaker 2: only to answer you know, your question directly, but it's
Speaker 2: just the you know, we're all in the same boat together,
Speaker 2: and so thousands of people all over southern California right
Speaker 2: now are like.
Speaker 5: That's what that stuff is, hon hon The stuff in
Speaker 5: the garage.
Speaker 2: Fluorescence sounds like, sounds like it's a free gift, like
Speaker 2: you should, Hey, guess what we have in our garage
Speaker 2: effluorescence occurred this morning? Yeah it is, you know. I mean,
Speaker 2: you guys have been to or you've seen places like
Speaker 2: Mono Lake here in California where these there are these
Speaker 2: giant salt pillars standing in the water. Yeah, that's technically
Speaker 2: kind of efflorescence too, salty water with the minerals in it.
Speaker 2: When the water evaporates, it doesn't take it with it.
Speaker 2: It leaves it there behind as this powdery little residue.
Speaker 2: It's not the concrete. Ninety nine times out of one hundred,
Speaker 2: it's it's not the concrete disintegrating. It's just it's just
Speaker 2: a mess. Yeah, yeah, nobody needs it. Let me see here.
Speaker 2: Can I go to Dan? Hey? Dan?
Speaker 4: Bye?
Speaker 2: Bye?
Speaker 6: How are you today?
Speaker 2: I am well, sir? How can I help you?
Speaker 6: I check with your frand Guard and they were wonderful
Speaker 6: and the coal over there was great. And they have
Speaker 6: a one inch slange. Our eaves are basically in touch
Speaker 6: with the roof. Its actually no space between the top
Speaker 6: of the roof en and the bottom of the eve.
Speaker 6: How do I handle that one? And slanned?
Speaker 3: Bend it?
Speaker 6: Cut it off? Get a different brand that doesn't have that.
Speaker 2: Well, talk to Brand Guard about it, because they have
Speaker 2: not only the outside vents, but they, if I am
Speaker 2: not mistaken, they've got interior retrofit vents too, and they'll
Speaker 2: either customize that border for you, and or they can
Speaker 2: figure out another way. I have yet to find a
Speaker 2: single instance in which we can't get a retrofit vent
Speaker 2: for an ember proof vent fitting on a home. They
Speaker 2: are always creative ways. Sometimes we do it from the
Speaker 2: inside out, sometimes we do it from the outside in.
Speaker 2: But when there are clearance issues, they'll handle it for you.
Speaker 2: No problem, my friend. All right, thank you, Dan. Sounds great.
Speaker 2: Oh we had another caller and then they went away.
Speaker 2: My mom, Now I feel very lonely. All right, A
Speaker 2: couple of thoughts. Turning away back to this question. Somebody asked,
Speaker 2: didn't the governor actually do some executive order that allows
Speaker 2: people to just reuse their old plans again? And what's
Speaker 2: that about? Well, yeah, and maybe I can comment on
Speaker 2: this a little bit. You know what, Let's do this,
Speaker 2: let's go to the news. When we come back, I'll
Speaker 2: explain that because last week Governor k Newsome, in addition
Speaker 2: to this fast tracking thing, he issued an executive order
Speaker 2: about recently built homes, and I'll explain that that that
Speaker 2: actually does make some people's lives very very simple when
Speaker 2: it comes to rebuilding. I wish that was the case
Speaker 2: across the board. Maybe this executive order will just stick
Speaker 2: beyond this current crisis. So we'll talk about the executive
Speaker 2: order for the reuse of relatively new plans. Can't buye
Speaker 2: Jean Sharp the house?
Speaker 1: What's he?
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Speaker 2: to be a great show as well. The final thing
Speaker 2: that I wanted to discuss this morning in regards to
Speaker 2: this whole subject of fast tracking building permits something that
Speaker 2: the City of Los Angeles is thinking about doing, is
Speaker 2: a question that somebody raised. Didn't the governor do something
Speaker 2: last week? I think it was it this last week
Speaker 2: or week before. Anyway, the governnew some last Thursday, not
Speaker 2: two days ago, but the week before, issued an executive
Speaker 2: order that allows homeowners of recently constructed homes to recycle
Speaker 2: their own plans. And that's just another way of fast tracking.
Speaker 2: I think that will have be a great benefit to
Speaker 2: clear some things out of the pipeline. But what that
Speaker 2: basically means that I'm not exactly sure. I was looking,
Speaker 2: I couldn't quite find. I didn't have time to read
Speaker 2: the full order, But I don't know how recent their
Speaker 2: definition of recent is, whether it's two years or five years,
Speaker 2: Probably not ten years, but again I'm just guessing on
Speaker 2: that one. But the idea is this, if you just
Speaker 2: built a home recently, within the past few years then
Speaker 2: and that home was lost in one of the fires here,
Speaker 2: then I think the executive order basically says it, listen,
Speaker 2: you're not going to have to run through the whole
Speaker 2: plan check thing again. I mean, because it's so recent,
Speaker 2: you're still going to be abiding by all of the
Speaker 2: necessary codes and zoning ordinances, and we're not going to
Speaker 2: make you jump all through those hoops again. So if
Speaker 2: you still have a copy of your full plan set,
Speaker 2: just resubmit it and we'll say okay, and then you
Speaker 2: can get on with the building it. That's not going
Speaker 2: to be a lot of the homes, but it's going
Speaker 2: to be some that are affected. And that being the case,
Speaker 2: how can that be a bad thing. That just makes
Speaker 2: common sense. And so I think at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, any suggestion that an adaptations that the City
Speaker 2: of Los Angeles or regions in southern California can make,
Speaker 2: I think, on a permanent basis, to just kind of
Speaker 2: kickstart bureaucracy and to not bog things down with extra
Speaker 2: steps anything that the city can kick back to the homeowner,
Speaker 2: to the architect, to the engineer, to the builder themselves
Speaker 2: and say, listen, we're going to treat you like grown
Speaker 2: ups and as a result, we're going to give you
Speaker 2: the freedom to move more quickly through this. It's all voluntary,
Speaker 2: by the way, It's not going to be on everybody.
Speaker 2: It's just if you want to do it this way.
Speaker 2: Why not if all the hoops still have to be
Speaker 2: jumped through, if all the requirements still have to be met,
Speaker 2: what's the you know, what's the downside honestly to allowing
Speaker 2: people to act responsibly? And if people don't act responsibly,
Speaker 2: they're going to have to deal with the consequences of that.
Speaker 2: But why not start with that, start with the idea
Speaker 2: of giving people the freedom to act responsibly, to maneuver
Speaker 2: more quickly and more customly towards their own situation. Why not?
Speaker 2: And I have no issue with that whatsoever. There are many, many,
Speaker 2: many times throughout my career in which I wish that
Speaker 2: people put more faith and trust in our ability to
Speaker 2: get something done than to sit there and wait for
Speaker 2: somebody at the city who just had no understanding of
Speaker 2: the project whatsoever to grind through and put a stamp
Speaker 2: on the thing. And quite honestly, one of the reasons
Speaker 2: why builders like to stay put and build in a
Speaker 2: particular area and get to know the people at the
Speaker 2: city is to grease those wheels a little bit. And
Speaker 2: by grease in the wheels, I don't mean bribery or
Speaker 2: anything unethical, I just mean this, there are you know.
Speaker 2: I spent years and years and years in the early
Speaker 2: part of my career building almost exclusively with the city
Speaker 2: of Beverly Hills, and in Beverly Hills there were inspectors
Speaker 2: who just knew me, and so there would be a
Speaker 2: time in which I called for an inspection for let's say,
Speaker 2: form work on a Tuesday morning, and then the inspector
Speaker 2: would call me back and say, Dean, I know you know.
Speaker 2: I said I would be out there, but I got overloaded.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be able to get to you tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and I know you've got concrete trucks coming. Is everything
Speaker 2: the way it should be? And I'm like, of course, Joe,
Speaker 2: of course, you know everything is the way it should be.
Speaker 2: And you know, after fifty sixty, seventy or hundreds of inspections,
Speaker 2: to always pass and always be proven and have a
Speaker 2: reputation of doing things always, not just at code level,
Speaker 2: but above and beyond, to have somebody trust you and
Speaker 2: say I know you did it right, So go ahead,
Speaker 2: and I'll be the first one to admit to you,
Speaker 2: all of you right now, I had inspection cards signed
Speaker 2: after the fact, retroactively because people trusted me, and never
Speaker 2: once have I failed a building inspection.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 2: The point being, are there circumstances in which trust and
Speaker 2: responsibility can clear out bureaucratic red tape? I think so.
Speaker 2: And if there's anything the city can do to at
Speaker 2: least offer that voluntarily, then I think it's a win
Speaker 2: win scenario. All right, that's my opinion on all of that.
Speaker 2: Now you're a little bit more informed as to what's
Speaker 2: happening in LA in response to these fires. Tomorrow we're
Speaker 2: going to be back talking about concrete today. Look outside,
Speaker 2: it's a gorgeous day. Get out there and get busy
Speaker 2: building yourself a beautiful life. We'll see you tomorrow. This
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