Malibu High’s girls volleyball team makes it to the final four at state.
Parking meters may arrive in Malibu … amidst worries about parking hogs.
And as City Hall looks for a location for a new theater and city arts center … the answer might be right in the backyard.
This is Malibu’s only local daily news.
It’s the (((( final ))) edition of the ((( Monday ))) news … from Radio Malibu …. 97 point 5 K B U.
Good morning Calle Principio.
Malibu Girls VBallers Advance to CIF Division Final Four
We lede this morning … with sports.
The Malibu High School girls volleyball team won its CIF tournament game Saturday … and moves on to the Final Four.
It was on Saturday that the Sharks actually lost the first set … Ocean View High School … on the road in Huntington Beach.
They went down 24-26 in a close match.
But from then on … it was all Malibu.
They decisively took the next three sets … 25-19 … 25-18 …. and 25-21.
That advances them to the the final four of the 2017 CIF Southern Section Girls Volleyball Tournament – Division 8.
They will play tomorrow … Tuesday … on the road at Capistrano Valley Christian High School …. in San Juan Capistrano.
We don’t know what time … yet … what time that game is scheduled for.
Malibu 21, Fillmore 20 Under The Friday Lights
In other sports news …. the Malibu High School football Sharks beat Fillmore … 21-20 … in a nail-biter Friday night.
The win brings Malibu to 5 and 4 on the season.
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Turning to the news now …
Unspeakable Gun Violence, In Texas and Just Down PCH
Unspeakable gun violence over the weekend … both in Texas and right in our front yard.
More than 20 gunshots broke out at the Santa Monica Pier late Friday night .. there were multiple shooters.
Four people were hit.
A 28 -year-old mother was shot and killed late Friday night …. as she was ushering people away from an argument between two groups of people at the Santa Monica Pier.
De’Ommie de la Cruz .. age 28 … was shot and killed during a confrontation between passengers on two party buses around 1 a.m. Saturday.
The 28-year-old and her friends were returning to their bus when the suspects on the other bus got into a confrontation with one of the men.
Police said several suspects then opened fire.
Witnesses say 20 or 40 shots were fired.
Her mother tells Channel 7 that “De’Ommie was standing there ushering people back on the bus – hurry up, c’mon, c’mon – so she died a hero,”
De la Cruz had who worked as a school bus driver … and was devoted to her 2 year old girl and 13 year old brother.
The L-A county coroner has finally released the name of the man who jumped to his death a month ago …. in front of hundreds … at the Malibu Pier.
42 -year-old Denison Shelley Diaz struggled with the pilot of the two seater chopper …. which Diaz had chartered for a picture taking session and thus had its cockpit door removed.
Rescue crews pulled Diaz out of the water and brought him to land where paramedics tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Parking Meters May Be Used Against Parking Hogs
Should parking meters be used to prevent parking hogs at primo spaces on Malibu streets?
Or is that an infringement on the concept of the Malibu way of life?
Virtually every city in California … except Malibu … uses parking meters at primo parking places.
Even though Malibu has time limits posted at some places … like along Cross Creek Road … many businesses and residents feel it is unfair for one person to use the street parking all day.
But parking meters might mean an end to some cherished traditions … like Free Zuma on Westward Beach.
It could also be used to prevent overnight parking by campers.
The city staff says streets that could get parking meters include Cross Creek Road … Civic Center Way … and Malibu Road near the colony.
At Point Dume … Heathercliff Road at the shopping center and Cliffside Drive at Point Dume State Park
And Westward Beach Road
The whole issue goes before the city council next Monday.
Legacy Park Repairs May Be $$$ Blowout
The city of Malibu has won several awards from engineering associations … for Legacy Park.
The awards were for an innovative water cleaning filter that took dirty storm runoff … treated it … used much of it for the park’s natural landscaping … and put the excess clean water into the lagoon.
Great concept …. lousy execution.
Somehow it was ’t built or operated correctly … and salt water got sprayed on the park.
Since the park has an artificial lining … the salt just sits there in the park and kills trees.
The city has asked for bids to design and fix the problem.
But the problem is so severe … that the bidders can’t estimate how much it will cost to fix it.
Only one bid came in … at 346 thousand dollars just to design a fix.
City staff is recommending that the bid be thrown out … and that a design-only bid go out.
Then contractors will know what the project will cost.
And what will that total be?
Don’t know yet.
Site For New City Theater May Be In City Hall Backyard
And here’s an idea ….
The city has been looking around for a for vacant land to buy … for a variety of municipal uses … including the construction of a Cultural Arts Center.
The city has been in negotiations to buy the Malibu Playhouse at Point Dume … and also a vacant lot next to City Hall.
But the solution may by in City Hall’s backyard … literally.
City manager Reva Feldman says vacant space on the north side of the City Hall property could … in her words … be developed immediately as a Cultural Arts Center.
The city has 185 parking places …. and could build an underground parking garage and theater … and with an above ground multi-functional space.
The land is now vacant … it has an almost unobstructed ocean view over City Hall.
It backs up into a canyon … with houses far above.
The city manager is asking the city council to consider whether the vacant area should be
developed for a Cultural Arts Center.
As of this month … the city has more than 25 million dollars in its cash reserve fund …
One significant point …. there’s no mention in the staff reprt of a skateboard park … which has also been proposed for near City Hall .. and which has a bunch of vocal supporters.
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Weather for the Malibu ….
A 20 percent chance of showers.
Clouds will part … partly sunny, with a high near 64.… highs around (((( 69 )))) degrees today on the beach … (((( )))) in the mountains above Malibu.
Winds will be strong.
Downcoast winds will be ((( 20 )))) miles per hour this afternoon.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 4:55 … don’t forget traffic will be affected by an earlier standard time for th sunset. )))).
After that … expect a 20 percent chance of showers again ) tonight … a low of (((( 57 )))) on the beach … down to (((( 54 )))) in the mountains.
Tomorrow should be (((( less cloudy )))).
Right now … at Trancas it’s (((( 65 )))) degrees.
In upper Malibu Canyon … (((( 55 )))) .
And at Civic Center Los Angeles … (((( 62 )))).
In the ocean … it’s (((( 61 )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.
The lifeguards say the waves today are (((( 2 to 3 )))) feet high ….
(((( NW swell-mix possible. Small SSW swell. conditions ))))
Those are (((( poor to fair ))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.
((((( High tide is at 9:49 AM … 6.6 feet.
Low tide is just about at sunset … 4:57 PM
A secondary high tide is at 11:29 PM … 4.2 feet. ))))
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