Council Will Consider Waiving Fees To Place Trailers

How much will it cost to get city permits to rebuild a burned out house??

And how much will it cost to place at temporary trailer on a lot during the rebuilding process?

Those questions are in play as the Malibu city council goes into session at 3 o’clock this afternoon ….

It’s a special session to extend the state of emergency from the fire.

City manager Reva Feldman is recommending that all fees for temporary trailers be set to zero this year.

The financial impact???

If the owners of every one of the 435 or so burned houses took out a permit for a trailer … that would be about 350 thousand dollars.

The city council will vote on setting those fees to zero at today’s meeting.

But what about the cost for permits to build a replacement house?

Feldman tells the city council her staff is currently analyzing the fees related to the permanent rebuilding of residential properties destroyed by the Woolsey Fire.

And as we reported yesterday … creating a Task Force to investigate the city’s response to the fire is also on the agenda today.

And … joining with L.A. county and four other cities in a uniform debris removal management permitting program.

The city manager reports that regulating of debris removal will require adding staff …. and she recommends going to the county to join a regional effort on that.

One way or the other … Fedlman says the city will have to have some government oversight of debris removal activities.

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