A scary prediction of cliffs on Point Dume … falling into the ocean … comes from the federal government.

Malibu’s city council reverses course … and will examine building new fields at Bluffs Park.

The School Board debates a building a bigger parking garage … funded partly by Malibu taxpayers … at Santa Monica High School.

This is Malibu’s only local daily news.

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

Good morning Busch Drive.

Malibu’s city council has reversed course, and will study park field development at Malibu Bluffs Park. we’ll have that story in a minute, but first:

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USGS Tells Malibu Ocean Rise Will Be Catastrophic

A federal geologist predicted that global sea rise could cause devastating destruction on Point Dume, flood Pacific Coast Highway and create storms with surges comparable to what we saw this week in Florida.

An estimated 1,916 buildings — most of them houses — would go underwater in Malibu when a serious storm hits Malibu … in the year 2100.

That’s under the worst-case scenario of a 5 and a half foot ocean rise … according to Juliette Hart, a USGS geologist, speaking at last night’s city council meeting.

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“We unfortunately we have a very powerful image of this right now on the East Coast of the U.S.”

Hart showed a picture of Pacific Coast Highway, nearly falling into the sea last year near Coastline Drive, to illustrate her point.

And the worst case scenario shows the cliffs of Point Dume eroding back to consume the first row of ocean view houses … over the next 80 years.

The USGS scientist said the amount of sea level rise would depend on what the world does about levels of greenhouse gases.

An increase of between 40 to 66 inches is possible, putting large section of Pacific Coast Highway under water at high tide.

Again, Juliette Hart from the U-S-G-S:

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“The area that’s impacted is about 13.6 miles of roadway.

“Iff you throw a one hundred year storm on top of that, it doubles.”

A one hundred year storm is a storm so severe it only has a one on hundred chance of occurring in any given year.

Even without the storms … the U-S-G-S scientist had a dismal prediction for malibu’s beaches.

And beaches will erode, she said,

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“an average of about 150 feet per beach … and in Southern California … 31 to 67 percent of the beaches are expected to erode by 2100.”

The U S G S has set up an internet site to look at any section of coastline on the U-S.

Malibu beaches can be zoomed in … to see what the exact predicted risk is.

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Council Reverses Course On Bluffs Park Planning

Two members of Malibu’s anti-growth city council slate voted to go along with a $220,000 environmental study on a vague set of plans for possible additional fields and other parks facilities at the city’s Bluffs Park.

Last night, Skylar Peak and Rick Mullen voted to go along with the study, which was opposed only by their fellow slate member, Jefferson Wagner.

The plan was opposed by the same set of open space advocates —from Malibu and out of town — who had won a 3-2 vote against the park development last spring. That is when the new slate of city council members elected last fall decided against preparing construction-related plans for the 83 acre plot.

The land is owned by the state of California, and leased to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy with the requirement that it remain used for passive recreation only.

Malibu, however, would not be bound by that restriction if it were to control the land, city attorney Christi Hogin told the council Monday night.

The city and conservancy director Joseph Edmiston have a deal to trade his agency’s interest in the vacant land, which is across Pacific Coast Highway from Pepperdine University and west of the city’s existing Bluffs Park. In exchange, his agency would get ownership of the city’s 525-acres of wilderness and trails called Charmlee Park in Encinal Canyon.

For more than an hour, parks advocates and open space advocates implored the council to follow their preferred image of Malibu.

Some open space advocates said they opposed the study as a waste of money.

Others said go ahead …  see what could be built, but please done’t build anything.

City parks commissioner Suzanne Guldiman:

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There are threatened birds and reptiles that make Bluffs Park open space their home.

“They have no voices except our voices, and there is no way that building roads, ball fields, parking lots and other infrastructure will not have a negative impact on them.”

But parents challenged city council member Rick Mullen … who last winter said Malibu does not need additional playing fields.

Michael McDonald pointed to his son Moe in the audience …

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“I know that some of you deny that need exists … well tonight I brought some empirical evidence: my son Moe …

“Last year he was on the Malibu U-16 soccer team … even though Malibu had a really good team … and they beat all those teams across the hill, they didn’t play a single home game because they don’t have a home field.”

But Mullen said again last night that the lack of development … and he includes grass fields as development…is what makes Malibu special.

Lou La Monte and Laura Rosenthal, who have been working n the Bluffs Park expansion for the seven years each has been on the city council, restated their support.

Here’s La Monte last night.

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“This piece of land is not in the rain forest in the Amazon,” La Monte said. “This is in the middle of Malibu. There is ball fields there already. There is parking lots there already Their is traffic there already. “

But Jefferson Wagner said the inevitable Coastal Commission appeals and legal action would delay Bluffs park expansion hopelessly.

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“There’s not one council member here that doesn’t want to provide the convenience of parks for the children ….

“This plan, won’t be achieved, and you can guarantee it, put it in print, (it) won’t happen while we’re on the council.”

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City Steps Around Tuna Canyon Legal Battle

In other action, the council voted to punt a decision on a zoning change request from the owners of four large plots of land in Tuna Canyon.

Thet want a “public open space” zoning categorization for their land removed… so they can put in a subdivision right at the entrance to Malibu. 

The owners said it was a zoning error, but open space advocates said the land had in fact at one time been publicly dedicated as a park, but fell back into private ownership when a foundation defaulted on a mortgage.

The council voted to let the Coastal Commission and the courts sort that legal tangle out.

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SMMUSD Considers Expanding SM Parking Garage

Our local school board is considering building a deeper parking garage under Santa Monica High School.

Meeting tomorrow night … the Santa Monica Malibu School Board will consider adding a second underground level to a project planned for the Samohi.

Money for the project would come from Measure B-B … the school bond that was sold to Malibu voters as having proportional benefits for taxpayers in both cities.

But studies undertaken for the proposed school district divorce show that Malibu property taxes are subsidizing Santa Monica classes.

Tax monies for operational and construction funds are kept separately.

But money for the Santa Monica garage will come from the same pot of construction money that the 80 million dollar reconstruction at Malibu High is in.

The Malibu project was delayed nearly a decade … now underway … and the budget is tight.

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Space-X Builds Rocket landing Pad Up Coast From Bu

In news from up the coast … Malibu residents occasionally get a front row seat when rockets are launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base … about 100 miles west of the Bu.

The rocket launching pads west of Santa Barbara have been used as a west coast space base for 60 years.

Now … we may get a chance to see a rocket landing there.

Space-X … the rocket company based in the South Bay city of Hawthorne … has built a rocket landing pad at Vandenberg.

The company has launched three rockets from its Santa Barbara County launch pad.

All three boosters were successfully landed on a barge … off the coast of Mexico.

Now … the San Jose Mercury newspaper reports that Space X has built a landing pad u there … too.

That leads to the possibility of seeing a SpaceX rocket engine powering itself down in a nighttime landing … seeing it from Malibu.

One science writer says the sight is spectacular.

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Weather for the Malibu ….

Patchy fog and clouds burning off at midday … then partly sunny … a high near 75  today on the beach … ((((    92     )))) in the mountains above Malibu.

Downcoast winds will be   (((  gentle … about 10  )))) miles per hour this afternoon.

Sunset tonight is at   ((((    7:04   )))).

After that … expect it to be (((  late night coastal clouds and mountain fog  )))) tonight … a low of  ((((  62   )))) on the beach … down to  ((((   60   )))) in the canyons.

Tomorrow should be   ((((   much the same  )))).

Right now … at Trancas it’s ((((    69    )))) degrees.

In upper Malibu Canyon … ((((   74    )))) .

And at Civic Center Los Angeles … ((((    69   )))).

In the ocean … it’s ((((   66    )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.

The lifeguards say the waves today are   ((((  1 to 2   )))) feet high again ….

((((  Small S swell. Minor NW swell.  ))))

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

(((((   High tide is at 2:31 this afternoon … at five and a quarter feet.

Low tide ebbs after 10 o’clock tonight.   ((10:08))   ))))

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