The development community is extremely well financed and well organized. They have embarked on a program which has as its goal the commercialization of the City of Malibu, despite the act that the city’s General Plan states: “Malibu will maintain its rural character by established programs and policies that avoid suburbanization and commercialization of its natural and cultural resources.”
The onslaught is beginning in full force. The first step is the Malibu Bay Company Development Agreement. This agreement, along with the other commercial developments would, at best, allow commercial development in the Civic Center (alone) to be increased by as much as an additional 600,000 square feet and, at worst, would allow as much as an additional 750,000 square feet (six Colony Shopping Centers.)
This would be bad enough in any community of 13,000 people. However, Malibu is a particularly unique community. Malibu has only one main road. The last thing we need is more gridlock. I’m voting “No” on Measure M.
Dean Ruiz