According to Charles Stringer’s Letter to the Editor from Feb. 13, “The Water Board has authority to regulate and prohibit discharges of waste from OWDS. It is up to the City of Malibu to regulate land use, including whether or not to approve developments.”
So, promoters of commercial development in the heart of Malibu, stop falsely accusing the Water Board of foisting the proposed sewage treatment plant on the city. The commercial developers are the ones foisting the proposed sewage treatment plant on the residents and want us to pay for it and to think it is out of our control.
Everyone now realizes that you can’t develop hardscape in the middle of a floodplain and add traffic to a congested situation. The Water Board’s intent is simply to stop water pollution by requiring that all those dischargers stop discharging waste into the public groundwater and streams. How to stop the commercial developers is up to us, the residents, who have the guts to tell the developers that they have to get out of the floodplain, bite the bullet and take the loss.
The residents have paid millions of dollars over two decades through the city’s efforts to defend those developers. Why? Do we really need Rodeo Drive in the middle of Malibu, in the middle of a floodplain?
Bob Purvey