Developer details rebuilding challenges ahead

Across Los Angeles County, residents and business owners face long roads to recovery after some lost everything in the fire. FOX 11's Marla Tellez spoke with a developer on the challenges Angelenos face.
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[@konsumer]

THIS IS AN AD. MAKE NO MISTAKE.

[@mikegambino862]

I was thinking the same @konsumer

[@JohnnySin-cp7fz]

More like scam. "I didn't know the metal can burn" SMFH. It melts, fool!! Does he think the metal is fireproof??? He needs to rewind and see the 911 Twin Tower melting down to ground..

[@Thebluesky0311]

No it's not. LOL

[@JohnnySin-cp7fz]

@ You've never set foot in school nor have seen one million dollars in your account. Stay out.

[@blueblood723]

Absolutely ad-incentized.......developers/contractors will make millions, hand over foot

[@franksters08]

You gotta pay the inspectors under the table to get them to look at your permit

[@LivingLifeOutWest]

I bet! 💰💰😩🤩

[@ole-bboy5875]

Just wondering have you or someone you know experienced this with LADBS?

[@robdavidson993]

This ain’t Chicago.

[@franksters08]

@@ole-bboy5875 everyone. It’s obvious. Those tall building condos in downtown get approved fast but a small ADU can take months to get approved

[@treasuretrails]

"Would you wanna live in the middle of a construction zone" they do in gaza lol

[@davide4809]

He says 5, but he knows it’s like 10

[@Ben-bg2eg]

I would say 5 years is a pretty realistic time frame. Still way too long. It should be 2 years or less.

[@mikerogers1949]

@@Ben-bg2egwell sure 5 but 10 to NOT be in a construction zone

[@newt.acheron]

Nice AD

[@lg206]

Imagine a snake oil contractor offering to rebuild homes when 90% of his overpriced paper boxes burned down. Those price points should have had commercial grade sprinkler systems.

[@rrokaz]

Homes must be built from concrete and bricks, no wood.

[@tenossos]

So they'll crumble in an earthquake?

[@bikeshop_life]

@@tenossosJapan seems to know how to deal with it 🤷‍♂️

[@tenossos]

@ You can build with steel and concrete, but it's much more expensive

[@AMIR-nm7fo]

THERE IS A BUILDING NEAR MY STREET. IT HAS BEEN FINISHED WITHOUT CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY. 5 MONTHS AND COUNTING. THANK YOU CITY OF LOS ANGELES

[@nannerz1994]

Just no boring tract homes. Also please stop it with the modern farmhouse and make your home a little more fireproof

[@ryderray2720]

Thankfully an honest developer...he asked the right quesitons " would you want to live in a construction zone" for 5 maybe even more years

[@moa3008]

I’m sure that the homeowners that became homeless from the wildfires will want to rebuild their homes and live in them with construction going on.

[@ryderray2720]

@@moa3008 I think after a few years when their children are in other schools many families will have moved on. The same for altadena. Very sad either way. Ive lived in LA for 25 years. Never seen anything like this

[@sbboy333]

Fair question, sure. But also ignorant to the small % of us that have lost homes and know what the deal is. Most people do not have any other choice, and will live in the construction zone out of necessity. Lots of boomers either retired or were close to, where a paid off home was instrumental to their retirement. Or younger folk, with large mortgages, that cannot take a huge loss, and cannot pay a mortgage and rent simultaneously.

[@ryderray2720]

@@sbboy333 i understand how that could sound that way. I dont think it was coming from a place of malice rather empathy. I think hes referenceing a real concern he has for the families and the reality. 1000s of homes to rebuild. no water no power, bio hazards. its more expensive to rebuild in the palisades and will tke years and years .

[@sbboy333]

@ 100% - I’m not triggered lol. It should probably be more of a statement than a question. “It’s a tough path forward knowing the best case scenario for a lot of these homeowners is they will live in a construction zone for 5 years.”

[@hectorp86]

Ok, who's gonna build your houses. There aren't enough chads in construction 😅

[@TheIroczcamaro]

I like Your style. 'Chads" are not a dime a dozen these days. Gotta give the 'chads' aka Blue Collar Sweaters and Bleeders a bigger piece of the pie OR LARGER SLICE OF PIZZA. Funny how the media, govmnt entities etc. promote the "builder" and "developer' and very seldom give recognition to the trades/subcontractors that actually do ALL the work. Comical.

[@Jhundo100]

As for Altadena; they’re like “welp”…There shouldn’t be prioritization for the wealthier. Classic classism.

[@JohnnySin-cp7fz]

That unscrupulous slime greaseball developer LOLOLOL. Giving her the "plans" LMAO. Planning Dept and Dept of Building & Safety has it on their records! Like he doing them a favor. He just wants a piece of the pie, once again. If anyone's paying more than $500 PSF over there, they've done lost their damn minds!

[@sickwitit9177]

Electricity doesn’t magically appear with a flip of a switch.

[@georgewoodland1766]

His estimate of 5 years is very realistic. Speaking from experience after I lost my home to,wildfires in 2017.

[@greggreg2263]

The developer is awesome. He should head a task force to get the city in line to make the Palisades rebuild smooth.🙏

[@jonleeman1]

He just happens to have the plans for their old house? 🤨

[@imonaroll9502]

I have a bridge for sale over by Santa Monica.

[@urmomsdadscousinsbf]

Schematics are public record anyone can request the schematics for any building

[@jonleeman1]

@@R.BOWERSI get that he’s the original developer, it’s just a little suspect he happened to be there with a freshly printed set of plans for this clip.

[@imonaroll9502]

@@R.BOWERS great views, each foot of bridge $100,000. No takers?

[@kalistylez1]

It’s like selling ice to an Eskimo

[@michaelhokett9199]

I like how he just so happened to have their original house plans! ; ;-)

[@willthethrillguitar4826]

It’s so important for all homeowners to retain a copy the original blueprints for many reasons

[@bigcatauna]

the scammers will come out in droves

[@prosperous_one]

Ray is the biggest one.

[@davep310]

Always at least double what a contractor/developer estimates for time. So, 10 years, maybe more.

[@tobagotom]

Up here in Northern California when the tubbs fire burned at least two thousand homes if you built with the same plans everything went a lot smoother. Some people were back in their houses in under three years. For a starter houses about 1,600 sq tf

[@ole-bboy5875]

Could be a good thing here for quite a few of the newer homes. Most developers & builders archive their plans with the City of Los Angeles.

[@JohnnySin-cp7fz]

@@ole-bboy5875 Every planning dept does that! It's like your blood test, ct scan, x ray! ALL KEPT!

[@JohnnySin-cp7fz]

You a loser if you're taking 3 years to build a lousy 1,600 SF home. I've built a 5,000 SF multi units in 6 months! And you ain't gonna find a paltry 1,600 SF home in Palisades! It's gonna be min 3,000 to over 10,000 SF homes on the hillside with slopes and retaining walls! After the fire storm, them soils ain't what it used to be before, they gotta do soil studies. All them burnt foundations can't be reused! You must dig them up and compact the soil again! Shit ain't happening in 5 years! You can kiss the Olympic good bye.

[@miamibeachvf]

You left out a real important part to your story the carcinogen contamination article in the LA Times and the serious upper respiratory health issues people will be having in the future and once the rain comes and starts pushing it further into the ground it'll be harder to clean up just look at the history of other areas of California that are burned to the ground and they rebuild record numbers of upper respiratory health issues construction workers get it first landscaper 2nd the residence that move back in their children their pets the elderly die from it in plants at once Thrive there all die from the contamination in the land there is a lot of documentation on this

[@omegaplumbing]

You kidding me? He had the plans to thier house and randomly met these people? 😂 come on please.

[@Ilaab1995]

The picture of the home that burned @ 1:14 shows nicely why so many homes were destroyed by this wind driven wildfire. The setback between the homes is not adequate. Ideally the house in the middle should not have been built and the space left open. Even in cities, this limited setback can not be enough under certain condition. In the wildland urban interface (WUI) it will destroy houses. Wind driven flames from the ample fuel of a burning house will generate a huge amount of radiant heat and direct flame exposure that will ignite the next house and so on. It is unconscionable that the building codes allow placing houses so close together in the WUI.

[@jacktoy3032]

The developer and city planners are in cahoots to squeeze as many houses into an area. There does not appear to have been sufficient setback to create a defensible zone around each house. That has to change. The defensible zone should be what drives the footprint of the house. No combustible material should be allowed as delineation between properties, e.g., no wooden structures/fences. Any future fire insurance coverage should be void if the home owner fails to keep zone 0 around their house free of combustible material and minimal plants in the next zone out that could be used by a fire to reach the house.

[@bikeshop_life]

The financial incentive to build out to the property line is high…

[@Ilaab1995]

@@jacktoy3032.. Agreed! Developers and real estate agents only see profit in the short term. They also constitute a large lobby that prevents sensible building standards from being implemented. We know how to build homes that can resist a wildfire. There are foundation and attic vents that prevent embers from penetrating the structure. Triple pane windows with the exterior pane being tempered glass, etc are all available. Insurance companies should work with the legislator to implement better building and land use standards.

[@Ilaab1995]

@.. As someone with over 15 years of wildfire risk mitigation, I beg to differ. Search (KZbin/ Google) for Jack D. Cohen, PhD to learn about defensible space.

[@Ilaab1995]

@.. Indeed, that is at the root of the problem. Greed and short term profit thinking are detrimental when it comes to wildfires.

[@sr_spongebob]

He's right, public utilities, and the building department will not be able to handle this. They can even keep up with normal workload.

[@jacktoy3032]

All rebuilding will have to adhere to the stronger building code (already in place) that mandates the use of fire-resistant material and every building needs to have a defensible zone. Every single property owner should familiarize themselves not only with the code but also with material on the Internet about defensible zone and reducing fuel for fires.

[@sunracer1869]

BS premeditated Ad

[@Thebluesky0311]

no it's not! LOL

[@eddieg6436]

Hopefully Pacific Palisades will INSIST on neighborhoods that DO NOT look cookie cutter!! Please don’t make the once beautifully diverse architecture of Pacific Palisades look like Las Vegas!!!!

[@sunracer1869]

Developer more like scammer

[@pita3908]

nothing is for free, developers will never run out of work here., don't forget Altadena, Altadena who..

[@abc123fhdi]

He said the metal melted. Looks like the fire burned hotter here than in Altadena, you could see molten metal from cars and burned and bent/melted solid girders and brick houses coming down. So the idea that the cement and steel houses in Europe would have fared better isn't true.

[@RA_D-u4z]

God Bless ❤

[@freddiecarr7602]

Im coming out of retirement for this!

[@memo6733]

Weeeeee we have money and lots of money we can rebuild.Weeee we rich people.

[@TheOtherKine]

It'll take 25 years. I'll be dead by then, as I'm way too old to see it happen, but good luck to all

[@themanimal01]

😮 at 2:34

[@Cloud-ql3oy]

5yrs to rebuild ...really? Sus Also y r they playin that music smh

[@douglasmartinez2756]

Developer vultures scaring people into selling their properties so they can build cheap cookie cutter homes and make a fortune

[@ApprenticeDaily]

Let us pray 🙏 🤲 🕍 🕌 ⛪ some open their hearts some open their wallet

[@miaimbeach314]

5 plus years

[@BornintheUSA-1984]

Nothing will be completed within 30 years. You asked for red tape and diversity, you got it. Put a mobile home on your lot for the next 25 years.

[@TheIroczcamaro]

Is the developer character puttin' another plug in for the LA Fire Department clearly, obviously and blatantly wearing 'their" firefighter hat 'they" or the media possibly asked him to wear for recognition and target advertising. LOL and yes comical.

[@Christen-h5d]

Altadena?

[@charlessimpson5143]

And the boondoggling begins . good luck youalls . and may nails be with you . and some hair jell and the second vice president of Ghana .