Not since the cigarette companies published reports that smoking was perfectly safe have we seen a campaign with the hoax level of the anti-M campaign. What is it going to take for voters to realize that the only way to stop development on 35 acres downtown is to vote Yes on M? The traffic levels, square footages and agreement terms in Measure M’s opponents $50,000 ad campaign are outrageously inaccurate.
Use your common sense, voters! How can you take legal land use advice from a group that’s breaking all the campaign disclosure laws? Steve Uhring and Ozzie Silna of CAN are the same people who printed doctored ESHA maps in the newspaper trying to deceive people that the Coastal Commission only mapped 14% of Malibu as ESHA, when the real map showed 49.2%
Think about the ridiculous contradictions M opponents are asking you to believe. First they say a water treatment facility lets MBC build on Chili, even though M converts Chili into a park and three adjacent MBC properties to permanent open space. Then they claim we won’t raise $25 million to buy Chili but we can eminent domain Chili and five other lots downtown which will cost us $75 million. They insist the 19-acre Point Dume site can’t hold two ball fields, but they are fighting a free Community Center from being built there. Do you really believe their predictions that “we can do better” and just make Mr. Perenchio donate all of his 12 properties?
The Bay Company’s 130,000 square foot shopping center on the Chili Cook-Off is well on its way toward approval in City Hall and they can build on the 20 acres with no variances and a self-contained package wastewater plant. The Coastal Commission lobbied hard to rezone Chili to “visitor serving” and will just love lots of stores for tourists. When you see the bulldozers start construction in a year, blame the opponents of Measure M for playing politics with Malibu’s future and selling voters a truckload of bad legal advice.
Anne Hoffman