AHHHH City Planning is unilaterally raising fees for every application type (not typical yearly inflation increases) - but one of the only ones they are keeping the same is the laughably low $229 appeal fee for "any aggrieved person" in the city to appeal housing:

Warner Center progress report - wild how many years each developer had to spend *after* city planning approvals in LADBS plan check/dealing with LA’s dozen+ departments clearances:

any random person can delay most apartment approvals for months in LA… fixing the ungodly cheap entry fee is most obvious two-birds solution we have (housing+city fiscal crisis) and we STILL won’t do it!