The county sales tax to pay for homeless support services has passed … barely.
Coastal and the city tussle over where the public sand starts … and private beach land ends.
The city’s planner explains why traffic won’t necessarily increase … if a zoning change allows hotels to apply for off-site parking.
And the architect of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area has died.
This is Malibu’s only local daily news.
It’s the Wednesday edition … from Radio Malibu …. 97 point 5 K B U.
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Good morning Malibu!
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The proposed county wide one quarter penny sales tax for homeless services has apparenty squeaked by with just barely enough votes to pass.
Measure H will add one quarter of one percent to the sales tax rate.
It will generate about 355 million dollars per year for homeless programs over 10 years.
Voters in the city of Los Angeles have already approved a $1.2-billion bond measure to help build 10,000 units of permanent housing.
Malibu has also appropriated $100,000 in city funds for homeless services.
The new countywide sales tax will provide rental subsidies and services for thousands more units across the county.
Voting turnout was light … and early returns from absentee ballots had a tax measure failing to meet the required two thirds majority.
But with 100% of the ballots counted … it passed with 67 percent of the vote.
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Access between public roads and public beaches has been a matter of legal controversy since PCH was opened 91 years ago.
The city and the California coastal commission are continuing a years long tussle over what sand is owned by the public … and how the public can get that sand.
At issue this year is the official map showing where private property ends … and where public beaches begin.
The California coastal commission will meet tomorrow in Ventura to go over the official access map.
The Malibu city council sent up its version of the beach access map up to coastal three years ago … after years of negotiations and back and forth with the state.
And the coastal commission staff has found a list of problems with the city’s access maps.
It is recommending that the commission tomorrow make some changes in the maps … to add stretches of beach at 120 beachfront properties to the legal descriptions of public beach.
That would result in a total of 529 recorded lateral public accessways … or stretches of beach … within the City of Malibu.
As for access paths to the beach … which are called vertical public accessways … the coastal commission staff notes that Malibu has failed to obtain one single beach access way in its 26 years of being a separate city.
But the new state map shows two new paths to the beach that the state has obtained … one at
Seagull Way near Latigo Point … and the other on Billionaire’s Beach … across the highway from PCH Greens.
The matter goes to the Coastal Commission tomorrow morning … at the Ventura County courthouse.
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A stomach bug continues to persist at Santa Monica High School,
Open House Night at Samohi .. scheduled for tomorrow … has been canceled due to the persistent spread of Norovirus on the campus.
The Santa Monica Lookout newspaper reports that parents got a robo-call Monday night cancelling the parents night.
Schools in Malibu have also been affected by the bug … but to a lesser extent.
Norovirus cases at Malibu High have been mostly in the background level.
But many nonessential school events here have been cancelled.
Most other … such as school plays and athletic events … are continuing.
Most schools in the district are still reporting cases of the norovirus … a highly contagious stomach bug that cannot be treated with any specific medicine.
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Malibu’s chief planner … Bonnie Blue … tells KBU News that the proposal to allow hotels to park their cars at different locations on Pacific Coast Highway and use parking valets does not necessarily mean that such plans will be approved.
The chief planner says the proposed zoning code change (that gies before City Council on Monday) would only allow a hotel to request the change …. subject to the submittal of an application for a city permit.
Says Blue … the zoning change would set up a mechanism for someone to apply – it does not assume that any such request would be approvable.
Each request … she says …. would be evaluated based on site-specific and project-specific circumstances, which are going to vary greatly.
And Blue says traffic volumes or parking space supply within the City would not physically be increased or increased as a result of the City adopting these regulations governing valet parking.
But Blue says she does not expect traffic volumes to increase if a hotel moves to off-site parking.
Her logic is that these cars are already on the road under the existing condition.
That conclusion did not go well at the last planning commission meeting …. where commissioners asked the city to estimate what the impact of valets crossing the street … both on foot and in client’s cars … would be.
Blue tells KBUU News the significance of this impact cannot accurately be known at this time due to the fact that no formal applications for valet parking have been submitted.
The whole matter goes before the Malibu city council on Monday.
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The man who perhaps did the most to create the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area has died.
Anthony C. Beilenson … a 20 year Congressman from the Malibu area … died Sunday.
As a state legislator in the 1970s …. he wrote California’s abortion rights laws.
He was elected to Congress and fought offshore oil drilling in Santa Monica Bay.
Beilenson was in Congress for 20 years from the western LA County district that at times included Malibu.
Among his biggest achievements was sponsoring the 1978 legislation that created the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, protecting a wilderness that extends from the Hollywood Hills to Point Mugu.
In 1995, as partisan rancor intensified under then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Beilenson announced his retirement.
He told The L-A Times that the surge in right-wing ideologues blocked compromise and made him hate coming to work each day.
Beilenson had been recovering from a heart attack last month and died Sunday at his home in Westwood, according to his son quoted in the LA Times.
He was 84.
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Weather for the Malibu ….
It will be (((( Mostly sunny, with a high near 79 )))) degrees today on the beach … (((( 83 )))) inland.
Winds will be strong . Downcoast winds will be gusting up to ((( 20 )))) miles per hour this afternoon.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 5:57 )))).
After that … expect it to be ((( clear )))) tonight … a low of (((( 52 )))) on the beach … down to (((( 49 )))) in the canyons.
Tomorrow should be (((( sunny and a little cooler )))).
At 9 am … it’s (((( 67 )))) at Trancas.
(((( 67 )))) in upper Malibu Canyon.
And it’s (((( 71 ))) at Civic center Los Angeles.
In the ocean … it’s (((( 54 )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.
The lifeguards say the waves today are (((( 2-3 )))) feet high ….
(((( A small WNW swell eases. Small S swell holds. Favorable AM winds. \ ))))
Those are (((( poor to fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.
((((( Tide is going out to a low at 12:24 PM.
Next high tide in Malibu is at 7:03 PM, at 3 and tow thirds feet. ))))
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