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Mark Pocan: “It's the amount of time and the process it takes for…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 55 with Jim Parrott

Published | Video Starts at 37:29

First of all, we're really good at density because we've been for a long time because of environmental reasons in particular. We don't want the sprawl. We want to keep those open spaces. So that hasn't been a problem. But It's the amount of time and the process it takes for permitting and to move something forward. And you know, one of the things that I started thinking of is, you know, if locally you could actually charge a little more because as you just said, there's … (37:29–37:35)

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Asserts that the permitting process is a significant barrier to development.

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