Morning Glory: California's catastrophe

"President Trump is the right person at the right time to tackle this problem. He is a developer, thinks big, and understands the public/private tensions," my old boss in the Reagan White House Counsel’s Office, Richard Hauser, suggested when I began to grapple with the enormity of the challenge facing Los Angeles.

I practiced land use law in California for almost 30 years on behalf of landowners large and small, public and private. California land use law is a tumbleweed of regulations and authorities.