Those are symptoms, not causes. A lot of the value of land in California is proximity to good services and high ROI as regards social and career. The red tape, permitting, and labor costs are market-derived cash extraction mechanisms. Your problem is rent-seekers, not government.
> The red tape, permitting, and labor costs are market-derived cash extraction mechanisms. Your problem is rent-seekers, not government.
Red tape and permitting is government, though. Rent-seekers in government, maybe, but government nonetheless.
Rent is income that the government enforces your right to collect. A distinction between 'rent-seeking' and government is meaningless.
You could say the same of any economic relationship mediated by money...