Coyote tells why doing business in California, and especially Southern California, is impossible

This is no joke.  Just try to do anything that needs government approval, and you'll run into exactly this problem.   One can only wonder how quickly the economy would boom if this sort of thing were eliminated.

An example:

• It took years in Ventura County to make even the simplest modifications to the campground we ran.  For example, it took 7 separate permits from the County (each requiring a substantial payment) just to remove a wooden deck that the County inspector had condemned.  In order to allow us to temporarily park a small concession trailer in the parking lot, we had to (among other steps) take a soil sample of the dirt under the asphalt of the parking lot.   It took 3 years to permit a simple 500 gallon fuel tank with CARB and the County equivilent.   The entire campground desperately needed a major renovation but the smallest change would have triggered millions of dollars of new facility requirements from the County that we simply could not afford.

 If you want to make any kind of modification to your business here in Northern California, it will take a long time, and cost you an unbelievable amount of money, once you have to navigate the local and state bureaucracy and pay off all their fees and costs.  It makes one wonder why we pay taxes, since that money only seems to go to support this sort of parasitic class of busybodies and petty tyrants.