Kambiz Kamdar, co-founder of PaliBuilds, is also on the Pacific Palisades Baseball Association Board. He was setting up sound opening day. Photo: RICH SCHMITT
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass reported that more than 1,070 permits were issued for about 540 unique addresses in Pacific Palisades and that more than 1,300 rebuilding plans were approved for 650+ addresses after the January 2025 Palisades Fire.
That’s much different than Pali Builds’ numbers. That company has logged 574 permits since the Fire.
Frank Renfro
Pali Builds is privately owned and independently operated by locals, fourth generation builder Kambiz Kamdar and Frank Renfro, a seasoned software developer.
“We leverage a variety of public and private data sources to provide accurate, up-to-date information on building permits, property sales, and construction trends across the Palisades,” Kamdar and Renfro said.
“Our permit numbers are based on new home fire rebuilds,” Kamdar said. “The numbers the Mayor’s office puts out include all permits. It could be anything from demolition, grading, pool plaster, etc. We do a deep dive into the info and pull out only the permits that are for actual single-family home rebuilds.”
Using that criteria, the number of permits issued during January was 98. Pali Builds also lists the names of contractors during that month.
In February, there were 84 applications submitted and 93 permits were issued. “Permits exceeded new applications,” Kamdar said.
Kamdar and Renfro also analyzed the key neighborhood rebuild trends for February.
• The Alphabet neighborhood continues to lead in permit activity, now accounting for more than 31% of all issued permits.
• The top three areas (Alphabet, Via, and El Medio) represent approximately 65% of all permits, reinforcing that activity remains concentrated in core rebuild zones.
• El Medio saw a notable increase in activity compared to prior months.
• Broader distribution across neighborhoods suggests expanding momentum beyond initial hotspots.
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What are the unique addresses for this statement?
“That’s much different than Pali Builds’ numbers. That company has logged 574 permits since the Fire.”
With nearly 7000 homes burned down and nearly 5000 damaged, it would be good to know as a consistent record how many new homes are under construction and how many existing homes are under fix or fixed. Maybe a consistent weekly grid in CTN to show this.
Traffic now at 3:30pm on Temescal is backed up 1/2 way up the road and three lanes wide to exit to PCH. If we have approx 500+ new builds going, and say 300 repairs going today. Imagine what we will have in traffic when we get to 1000 new homes in construction and 500 repairs going – we are really going to have issues with egress and ingress, parking and access on roads with heavy delivery of supplies. As well, homeowners need to come and review progress on their properties. I see the quagmires daily in Marquez currently.
Perhaps the city should establish parking at Will Rogers State Beach and arrange yellow bus shuttles to get workers in and out.
All this coupled with City workers doing repair and upgrades in streets for gas, water and power – we are going to have some serious mobility concerns for a couple years.