Steve Soboroff, the local developer who in January was appointed Chief Recovery Officer following the Los Angeles Fires by Mayor Karen Bass, has announced his resignation due to a disagreement with senior city leaders. The LA Times has more details surrounding the row, including some eye-opening claims ("They haven’t asked me to do anything in a month and a half, nothing, zero") about him being largely shut out of the planning process.  Soboroff, who refused the $500,000 salary on a 90-day contract, had lately been in hot water over select comments he made in a private meeting at the Harvard-Westlake school. His disagreement with the decision to tender an Illinois-based contractor over AECOM for important infrastructure rebuilds as part of the recovery process was another apparent point of contention.  Here's more from the post-fire recovery response thus far: Land banks and local nonprofits mount a challenge to developer speculation in AltadenaPoll: most in L.A. support stricter bu...