As I will be on an extended vacation at the time of this hearing, I will not be able to personally respond with our objections to the horrific idea of a resort-like edifice at this specific location in Malibu! It was only four or five years ago that a raging brush fire driven by howling winds in this very corridor took out much of Pepperdine University, outbuildings at the Hughes Research Lab, the Presbyterian church, and five to seven homes along Malibu Rd. in the Colony.
Isn’t this enough evidence to suggest that no structures of this expanse and loss of life potential should be constructed in this canyon corridor, even with an L.A. County Fire Station 88 just blocks away and most likely be elsewhere deployed in such a catastrophe anyway.
This is totally absurd to suggest the Malibu City Council would be in favor of such a monstrosity being erected there, or anywhere else in the city, for that matter.
For whatever it means, count me and my family in absolute opposition to this plan!
Bruce Collings
L. A. County Fire Captain, retired 1998