Faced with fire damage, frozen permits and a City Hall she says can’t scale, a Pacific Palisades developer has made a radical pitch a year after the destruction: break away from Los Angeles. Santa Monica-based developer and reality TV alum Elaine Culotti is pushing for the Pacific Palisades to secede from the City of Los Angeles after losing roughly 20 percent of her real estate portfolio in the January fire, the Santa Monica Daily Press reported. Culotti argues the city’s disaster response exposed deeper structural failures that threaten property values, rebuilding timelines and insurability across fire-prone hillside neighborhoods. In the […]
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