I was alarmed to read this week that the state may compel Malibu to allow poor people to live here. I was beginning to imagine the groundswell of support and the money that could be raised to fight this issue. If $25 million could be collected to landscape a field to protect us from the evils of even the possibility of additional retail space in our midst, think of the resources that would be mobilized for this, an all-out effort to protect our property values er, I mean our “Way of Life.”
It’s bad enough their children can attend our schools and that they have access to our non-secured beaches on holiday weekends. A housing plan for low-income families is even more of an affront than one that could be “for profit.”(Coastal staff recommends denial of The Edge development.) Seriously, it should be enough that most of us vote for politicians who really care about the poor, shouldn’t it? Imagine my relief when I read at the end of the article that construction was highly improbable because our building code made it economically unfeasible.
Dana Clark