Worried about endangered species? Well, we’ve got one, right here in Malibu-our own Cornucopia-at the hands of the predators, the threesome on Malibu’s Planning Commission.
Took Cornucopia right off the agenda Tuesday night, even though it was a public hearing with a favorable staff report. Why? So it could give time for another of the invasive species from out of town to finish their application. For five years the city has thrown every obstacle possible at Cornucopia. Wake up, Malibu. It happened to Cornucopia and this railroading can happen, and is happening to us.
I, for one, am offering free spay and neuter services to these commissioners so they can’t multiply. What are the rest of you out there going to do?
The latest city sales pitch is that they want “quality”-suddenly, after five years of stifling Cornucopia. The pitch is that the carpetbagger operator with 15 markets will mean better quality than our own single market operator, who comes from Malibu and puts everything back into Malibu. Right! And eating at McDonald’s is a gourmet treat over the Sage Room or Guido’s.
We are in a grip of a city council and planning commission majority that has invited every kind of invasive species into our Malibu Habitat. They’ve allowed in the Glitz Worms, the Money Mantises, and a type of Dung Beetle called the Loss Leader-a chain store that makes no money, but they can list Malibu as a location on their shopping bags with London and Paris. Get off your butts, Malibu, before someone stamps your butt with a logo. If Iran can protest, what the hell is the matter with us?
Sherman Bayli