Local Permitting Process

On the Home Grown Food Network blog they ramble on about a project to build low-cost housing with edible landscaping and renewable energy. They wanted to develop in Desert Hot Springs but ran into what they considered excessive permitting requirements.

I would have preferred to start in Desert Hot Springs because it is more accessible for the millions of people surrounding us within 300 miles (Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix-Tucson, and San Diego-Yuma-Baja California, Mexico). It also is five acres of commercial land so we will make millions for the charity developing it some day. However, today it is much easier to start in San Bernardino County, where there are no permits required, and it is just as beautiful.