M. Nolan Gray 🥑
The legal fiction that these fees are necessary to internalize "impacts," rather than just raw extortion, only persists because the average judge cannot add fractions, and gets spooked when presented with a cash-for-findings nexus "study."
Matt Baran
A builder will pay $94,787.98 in permit fees for a single family home in Los Angeles, including $70,597.60 in affordable housing impact fees. Note that building new housing reduces the cost of housing, having a positive ‘impact’. Maybe the city should start *paying* a fee rather than charging one. Meanwhile the fee gets passed on, making housing decidedly less affordable, and acts as a deterrent to developers that might want to build more housing.
