New permit streamlining plan for L.A.

helving an earlier proposal to streamline construction permitting, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's business team has come up with a new way to make the city friendlier to business. Daily News.

The Build L.A. proposal would assign city case managers to developers working on big projects to help shepherd them through some 17 steps and departments they need to slog through for city permission to build.

It replaces the 12-2 plan, which Villaraigosa proposed shortly after his re-election last year, that was supposed to reduce a dozen elements in the permitting process down to two.