Allow super-long motel stays. Defer mortgage payments. Waive permit requirements. Ban low-ball offers for ravaged homes.
Hand out cash.
Those were some of the ideas floated as elected representatives from the California Assembly’s Democratic Party Caucus gathered in Pasadena on Jan. 16 to announce new bills meant to bring relief to families devastated by recent fires.
“Members of the California Assembly have your back,” Assemblyman Rick Chavez Zbur said during opening remarks. “This is one of the most destructive wildfires in California history, and we must all respond with urgency.”
Zbur said a new bill he coauthored with Speaker Robert Rivas intends to waive the coastal development permit requirements for accessory dwelling units in Los Angeles County….