That zombie traffic light on PCH goes out again … the Caltrans exorcists have fixed it.

Malibu will put the brakes on chain stores … again.

But that has the shopping center lawyers  rattling their chains.

A parks agency in negotiations to buy the gateway to Malibu … now slated to become a subdivision.

And a member of the Rindge family dies.

This is Malibu’s only local daily news.

It’s the   ((((  Tuesday   ))) edition of the news … from Radio Malibu  …. 97 point 5 K B U.

Good morning Cottontail Lane.

Zombie PCH Traffic Light Dies (Again), Nightmare on Malibu Street

For at least the sixth time this year … the brand-new traffic signal controller on Pacific Coast Highway at the Bell air Bay club failed this morning.

Traffic was bad heading into Malibu …. but just a Halloween nightmare heading into Santa Monica during the morning rush-hour.

Some motorists reported a one hour 45 minutes drive into Santa Monica this morning.

The bad light was the one just east of Sunset Boulevard.

The private Belair Bay Club has driveways on both sides of the highway … and paid for new signals installed there more than a year ago.

The new signals have failed repeatedly … and Caltrans electricians have spent days trying to find the problem.

The lights went out before 6:30 and were repaired just before 8:30.

Traffic backed up all the way to the Malibu Pier … it took more than an hour to sort that out.

Son of Chain Store Ordinance Rises From Dead

Second verse … same as the first.

The city Planning Commission voted 4 to 1 last night to go ahead with restrictions on chain stores in Malibu’s shopping centers.

The proposed ordinance … which has to be approved by the city council … would limit new chain stores to about 30 percent of any shopping center … although supermarkets and drugstores and banks would be exempt.

The ordinance is similar to Measure R … which was approved by a 3 to 2 landslide by Malibu voters.

The courts had problems with one small aspect of Measure  R’s chain store rules … and tossed the whole thing out.

The new ordinance follows the court’s road map … and the city attorney says it would pass muster at the courthouse.

Marshall Camp is the attorney for a shopping center owner … the one who successfully got Measure R thrown out.

He told the planning commission last night that they are still treading on very thin legal ice.

NEWSCART 77167 CAMP :14 on a legal grey zone.

“In our view there is no formula retail ordinance of this kind that can be immune or impervious to legal challenges.

“These sorts of ordinances exist necessarily as it is right now in al legal grey zone.”  [END QUOTE]

That not very subtle threat was accompanied by a request from the shopping center owners to … in their words … work together on this issue.

Advocates from the preserve Malibu side of the issue were not amused.

J. Flo Katz spoke later.

NEWSCART 77143 JFLO 111 :08 QQQQ: but we’re going to sue you.

“I just find it really ironic, that the lawyers come up and they say ‘it would be great if we all work together’ but we are going to sue you.” [END QUOTE]

Other shopping center owners argued that the American economy is changing … and telling shopping centers what kinds of tenants they can have is not a good thing.

Here’s the Malibu Country mart’s Blake Pomeroy. 

NEWSCART 77137 POMEROY :16 QQQ: less permanent tenants.

“Retail is changing very rapidly.

“The Internet is wiping out entire business sectors.

“Placing additional restrictions on our ability to lease   

to different tenants would inevitably lead to more vacancies,  more pop-up stores and less permanent tenants.”  [END QUOTE]

But they weren’t the only ones making thinly veiled … not quite threats.

Again … J Flo Katz …

NEWSCART 77140 JFLO 222 :07  QQQ we’ve learned a lot.

“A ballot is not off the table, a ballot can be done again. very easily, we’ve learned a lot. “

The Planning Commission made a few mostly technical adjustments to the proposed chain store ban.

They voted against language from the city attorney … in terms of defining shopping centers.

They replaced that with language from the original Measure R.

The proposed chain store restrictions goes on to the city council… for a final decision.

Dog Ate Our Homework On District Divorce

Dozens of parents from Malibu … and other concerned citizens … attended last night’s school board meeting in Santa Monica.

The topic … splitting Malibu out of the unusual two-part district.

KBUU News was covering the Planning Commission.

We’ll have a report on the school board meeting tomorrow.

Stake May Be Driven in Kanan Road Subdivision Plans

KBUU News has learned a parks agency is in negotiations to buy a key piece of land along Kanan Road … at the gateway to Malibu ftom the north.

The Triangle Ranch is currently planned to become a subdivision.

It sits on both sides of Kanan Road at Cornell Road … just south of the suburban strip malls of Agoura Hills.

There have been back and forth fights over housing projects planned for the 38 acres for more than a decade.

It sits at the bottom of Boniface Mountain  … along Medea Creek … which feeds Malibu Creek.

It is viewed by conservationists as a key acquisition … at the gateway to the Santa Monica Mountains National recreation Area … and Malibu.

The web of agencies headed by Joe Edmiston is now in negotiations to buy the Triangle Ranch.

No price or terms mentioned yet … it may be voted on behind closed doors by the M R C A — the Mountain Resource Conservation Authority — at a meeting in Thousand Oaks tomorrow.

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Malibu’s Gary Sinise is Rose Parade Grand Marshall

Actor Gary Sinise of Malibu has been named grand marshal of the 2018 Rose Parade.

Sinise will ride the float down Colorado Boulevard … and appear at the big football game on January First.

Among signature roles, Sinise played Lt. Dan Taylor in the 1994 film “Forrest Gump.”

He has toward the country with his Lieut. Dan Band … raising money and awareness for veterans … as well as appearing on network television series.

The Point Dume resident has also raised money for the Malibu boys and girls club.

Gary Sinise … Grand Marshal of the 2018 tournament of roses.

Ronald Rindge, 83, Dies

One of the members of the Rindge family has died.

Ronald Rindge … was 83.

Rindge was a founding father of the Malibu Historical Society and the Malibu Lagoon Museum.

His funeral was held last weekend up in San Luis Obispo County.

Rindge may be best known in modern years as a  stalwart defender of maintaining the Rindge Dam in Malibu Canyon.

Rindge … of course … a member of the Adamson family … which used to own all of Malibu.

Snow In Sierra, Rain Possible In The Bu

This weekend may see light rain in Los Angeles County.

But the National Weather Service says the questions of when … and how much … are still in the air.

In the Sierra Nevada … however … the first substantial snow of the 2017-18 winter season will fall.

One to 2 feet of snow are likely Saturday and Sunday.

Mammoth Mountain opens November 9th.

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Weather for the Malibu ….

Patchy drizzle with a chance of showers THIS MORNING … clearing later in the day … highs around  ((((  64   )))) degrees today on the beach … ((((   and   )))) in the mountains above Malibu.

Winds will be gentle.

Downcoast winds will be   (((  about 15  )))) miles per hour this afternoon.

Sunset tonight is at   ((((    6 pm straight.   )))).

After that … expect patchy drizzle  )))) tonight … a low of  ((((  55  )))) on the beach … down to  ((((   49  )))) in the mountains.

Tomorrow should be   ((((   much the same … with patchy drizzle in the overnight and early mornign hours.   )))).

At 8 am … at Trancas it’s ((((    62   )))) degrees.

In upper Malibu Canyon … ((((   54    )))) .

And at Civic Center Los Angeles … ((((    64  )))).

In the ocean … it’s ((((    63   )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.

The lifeguards say the waves today are   ((((   1 to 3  )))) feet high ….

((((    Long period NW swell fades further. ))))

Those are (((( poor to  fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.

(((((   Low tide is at 1:37.

Another almost 5 foot high tide … tonight at 7:29.    ))))

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