This is CalFire - it’s a state responsibility area. These rules also apply state wide, however. It’s a well known problem in the state. My 4 yr timeline was, as I mentioned, expedited due to the fires. 6 yrs is more typical.

your experience is directly at odds with the policy story that some govt elements are trying to present, along with numerous, repeated stakeholder processess that claim to be trying to do exactly what you were trying to do .. You are saying that the current, expedited and "combined " permit process as recently amended by the Governor's Office, reduced your "years of applying for permission" from SIX to FOUR at a time of catastrophic fire hazard.

The details will have to speak for themselves and this is not the forum, however I strongly encourage you to seek some kind of outsider, and avoid those for whom the reputational damage occurs..

Lol, are you saying the PR doesn’t match the reality with CA gov’t is news?

I got my thing approved and done with (finally), zero interest in getting involved any more. Everyone else involved knows this is how it goes too.

If you think me going to some news agency is going to do anything but get me stomped on in some future year (and it ending up being a decade instead), you might want to take a look around first.

edit: all these records and more are also public records and should be trivially available via FOIA requests - which said PRcoughnews outlets would be pulling if they wanted to know what was really going on.

There are only 100k private timberland owners in CA (and mostly nutballs like myself that seem to like pain and suffering in the form of paperwork), so it’s an easy group to stomp on, relatively speaking.