Good read from the Lookout: 483 days for 120 square feet: How Santa Cruz’s permitting process almost killed one entrepreneur’s dream. It's about how it took a business owner four hundred & eighty-three days from her first permit application to the city of Santa Cruz until she was actually allowed to open… a 120-square foot tasting room. Insane.
Now, no one deserves to be treated this way, no matter how they vote or what they read in terms of news… but still: how did she not know? Santa Cruz is famous for an overtly hostile planning deparment. How could she have been surprised?