As we approach the City Council election, it’s important to look at the incumbents and the claims they are making. The incumbents say they are supportive of Malibu’s environment, families and kids, but aren’t these the same characters that all lined up in support of Measure M, something that the good sense of the majority of Malibu’s citizens realized was a bad deal for us?
The words sound familiar, but the facts don’t seem to support their positions. There are no new ball fields and almost nothing has been done to protect our environment. Not only that, the issue of the LCP has been obscured. The city has spent a fortune fighting the Coastal Commission, whose LCP is much closer to the position that the Malibu LCP Citizens Committee originally worked on. The city withdrew that LCP from the Coastal Commission and then told us the commission refused to read it, claiming it was Dead on Arrival. That just isn’t true.
Recently, I was shown a document issued by the Superior Court of California on May 24, 2002 that says: The 2000 LCP plan was submitted to the Coastal Commission pursuant to resolution. And on June 15, 2000, that same LCP was withdrawn by the city. Why did the city withdraw the Citizens Committee LCP? Is it because they wanted to replace it with their own, less protective version? I believe that the City Council wants us to stay uninformed about this and this makes it more important for us to find out what’s really going on and change it.
Christopher Slate