=. 89° at 5 in the morning at the Malibu pier. 88° at 2 A-M at Paradise Cove.

=. Malibu’s fire danger is creeping to mid summer levels and it’s only mid spring.

=. The city is not happy with Caltrans over an unsafe traffic situation the state created at Trancas.

=. Parking fines maybe tripled soon… But the city still has to find some place… Any place …to park towed away cars.

=.  Sheriffs deputies get turned away by a judge over mandatory Covid vaccinations.

=.  City Of L-A has just banned RV parking on LA streets … watch out Malibu.

=.  And an Amazon fulfillment center the size of 40 football fields opens up just up PCH… What will be the traffic impact on Malibu? Nobody knows.

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This is Malibu’s Only Local Daily News … the Friday edition … I’m Hans Laetz reporting. 

Covids Cases Creep Upward In LAUSD, But Not In Malibu Schools

You may be hearing about COVID-19 cases going up in local schools in Southern California. Well that might be true in the Los Angeles schools… It’s not happening in the Santa Monica Malibu school district. 

The most recent tests were done a week ago … as school is on spring break this week.

Zero positive tests at the four Malibu public schools.

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88º At 2 AM At Paradise Cove – Record April Heat Is Toasting Local Brush

Specific temperature records are not broken out for Malibu. But the overnight temperatures early this morning are the highest we’ve ever seen for the month of April. This morning at 5 AM it was 89° at the Malibu pier.

It was 88º at 2 in the morning at paradise Cove.

This is April … not November … but an autumn-like santa Ana is raking Malibu this morning, 

The winds have been gentle … as Santa Anas go.,

But the heat is another story.

Gabriel Etchevery is the city’s new fire safety liaison officer.

And he says the Santa Anas this spring have hot areas to the east and west of malibu hard.  

But Malibu … not so much.

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“The wind has been all around us it has not impacted Malibu much. It’s the same with this current event… The winds are going to be really almost normal in the next few days… The closest elevated winds are going to be over in Ventura Santa Barbara. The closest it’s going to be in TopangaCanyon right now it’s flirting with red flag at Topanga drop south as it go west and then it to Malibu and then it’s relatively calm. That’s a good thing when the wind misses us… We will take it every time.”

The city’s fire safety liaison says the fuel moisture content of the weeds and brush was pretty good … but has plummeted recently.

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“As of now is the fuel moisture went from 180 to 120 in about the last 28 days. So that’s a significant significant drop and that’s indicative of how well the fuel will burn that’s not a good sign.”

When that live fuel moisture level hits 60 … that’s the critical fire danger level.

Usually we don’t hit that until late summer… But with this weather… We might be in for a very long fire season in Malibu this year.

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Civic Center Way Speed Limit To Be Cut By 5 MPH

The speed limit on Civic Center Way is going to be cut … from 40 miles an hour to 35.

This will be along the street between Pepperdine and the signal at Webb Way.

Traffic engineers say they have completed the every-five-years speed survey … as required by the state law designed to prevent the use of speed traps. 

New signs marking the lower … 35 mile an hour speed limits …. Will be going up soon,.

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Malibu officials are unhappy with Caltrans … over the Trancas Creek Bridge project.

State contractors have removed the center median curbs on the highway … to get ready to move the lanes around.

The removal of the center divider allows drivers to make left turns coming out of the parking lot at Trancas Country Market.

One driver described it as Range River whack a mole… with cars lumbering across the 50 mile an hour traffic … just waiting to be harpooned. 

City public works director Chris De Boux says. … no bueno.

He told the city public safety commission Wednesday night that Caltrans made … 

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… “a pretty feeble attempt to keep from turning left out … out of them … it’s a couple of signs and it’s just not doing any good. And so we’re working with them …  we’re trying to get them to put up some of those temporary kind of candle lake barriers they look like little candlesticks.

Caltrans plans to start shifting lanes around by the end of this month … to make way for demolition ion the ocean side half of the bridge.

At that point … concrete railings will be used as traffic diverters.

The speed limit will be lowered to 30.

Bikes will be banned.

Watch for that fun.

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LA Bans RVs On Street, Watch Out Malibu

Will Malibu see a wave of dilapidated RVs arriving on city streets?

The city of LA is ending its pandemic waivers … 

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council lifted the two year moratorium on RV tiockets.

There are huge complaints from residents who say some RV dwellers dump human waste on streets, use drugs and accumulate trash.

City officials say they will begin to enforce the RV ban next month.

They  prioritizing RVs and campers that are unregistered, inoperable or heavily damaged, as well as ones that interfere with construction, pose a safety hazard by blocking driveways or traffic or have had multiple responses from the Department of Sanitation. 

Officials will also resume towing cars that violate posted parking restrictions.

The last time something similar to this happened… Los Angeles County banned RV parking at Topanga Beach… where people in about 40 RVs used to campout along the beach on Pacific Coast Highway.

Most of those 40 people simply pulled up steaks and parked in Malibu. It took weeks for local sheriffs deputies to enforce Malibu regulations and get rid of the RVs. Now… With the city of Los Angeles trying to relocate hundreds and hundreds of RVs and campers… well…

And FYI … remember Colossus … that RV that amassed a ton of parking tickets in Malibu before it got hauled off?

It’s back.

Council To Decide Two Parking Issues: Triple The Fines On Monday – Where To Tow Cars On April 25

Malibu may triple the fines for parking illegally. The city Council on Monday night will consider fines of up to $150

At Monday night’s city council meeting … tripling fines is on the agenda.

Parking in a bike lane???  Obstructing as roadway??
Fines would go from 48 dollars to 150 dollars.

Blocking a fire hydrant??

Fines would go from 68 dollars … to 150 dollars.

Now … the U S Constitution has the Eighth Amendment … which prohibits excessive fines.

And the federal courts have recently ruled against a parking fine hike in the City of Los Angeles … the judges said the fines have to be related to the seriousness of the offense.

Malibu officials hope that the unique circumstances of life in Malibu qualify… things like emergency vehicles trying to get through to fires or lifeguard rescues.

And … where will Malibu put a tow away impound yard?

Looks like the city Council will juggle that hot potato on April 25th.

Without a tollway impound yard… It is virtually impossible for sheriffs deputies to effectively enforce parking regulations during heavy summertime beach use days.

There is no practical way for sheriff separate is to remove cars that block fire lanes or driveways… And many motorists would rather pay whatever the parking ticket is rather than find a legal parking place.

Malibu High School used to be used for the tow-away lot… but construction is taking up the west side of campus… And the east side  campus parking lot will be needed by students starting in early August… right when hot summer days arrive.

Public safety commissioners have looked high and low but say they’re just simply is no other place to store cars… Other than the city owned vacant lot on Point Dume… where Christmas trees used to be sold.

Some Point Dume residents are highly offended by the thought of a fenced parking lot next to the serenity rocks store.

Members of the public safety commission say the choice is an impound lot on Point Dume… Or cars blocking driveways and fire hydrants up and down the coast. 

Again … the city council will try to make a decision on that on April 25th.

Giant Amazon Fulfillment Center Opens At The Oxnard End Of PCH

It’s the size of 40 football fields.

And it has more structural steel than the Eiffel Tower.

The ribbon was cut yesterday for Amazon’s 2.3 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Oxnard.

It will be able to process about 2 million packages a week … and some of those packages may ride on vans through Malibu.

The company hosted a ribbon-cutting for the plant … off Rice Avenue … on Thursday.

The company has not said if it will ship packages to Los Angeles from the Oxnard fulfillment center … and if so … it will use the most logical route … PCH.

Right now… packages bound for Malibu or the west side of LA are sorted and loaded at a fulfillment center in the inland empire… And that’s two hours away from Malibu during heavy traffic.

An article in the Ventura county star does not specify if anyone thought to ask about Pacific Coast Highway… Which is the logical route between the Oxnard warehouse and the west side of LA county.

PCH is closed to trucks with more than three axles… But Amazon delivery trucks are vans with two axles.

Perfectly legal to drive on PCH… And perfectly logical that they will be driving on PCH.

How many?

The city of Oxnard rushed head over heel to convert the Strawberry Fields at the 101 interchange into this massive warehouse… As big as 40 football fields and multiple stories high.

The environmental impact report was approved while the City;of Oxnard kept the identity of Amazon secret.

No one knew what was coming… Certainly no one in Malibu… Not even anyone in Oxnard.

We’ve asked Amazon if they intend to route delivery vans through Malibu on PCH. No response yet … but we just asked them today.

And we’ve asked the City of Oxnard … how did this project get through the environmental review process … when the E I R does not even mention delivery vans or P C H???

Amazon employs nearly 2,000 workers in Oxnard.

The city council approved pans for the gigantic warehouse in secret … the words Amazon and delivery vans do not appear in the environmental impact report.

So … now the question … how many Amazon vans are going to pull out from that ginormous warehouse … and turn left on PCH towards Malibu???

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Deputies Lose Round In Court Against Supervisors In Covid Vaccination Tussle

The union that represents LA County sheriff’s supervisors has lost the first round of its court battle … an attempt to prevent the LA COunty Board of Supervisors from requiring deputies to be vaccinated against Covid 19.

On Tuesday … the county supervisors took that power away from he sheirff… Alex Villanueva …

He has refused to enforce the county order for vaccinations for county employees .. including deputies. 

Judge Mitchell Beckloff dismissed a union request for a temporary order against the action … and said the deputies should wait until the county outlines its plans in more detail .

The Sheriff’s Department has one of the lowest vaccination rates among county agencies … with just 55% percent of the sheriff’s employees were fully vaccinated.

That data has not been updated because Villanueva says the county testing and registration system is run by Chinese communists. .

Villanueva repeatedly says he is vaccinated and encourages his women and men to get vaccinated, too.

The sheriff said he won’t enforce the mandate out of fears that thousands of deputies would quit if forced to get the shots.

In a Washington Post editorial, Villanueva wrote that about 4 thousand sheriff’s employees would be dismissed if ordered to be vaccionated.,

“Deputies tell me that they would rather quit or retire than be publicly shamed by a liberal Board of Supervisors, along with its media cheerleaders, telling them what to put in their bodies,” he wrote in the Washington Post.

This story is based in part on reporting by the Los Angeles Daily News and KBUU.

Will Malibu see a wave of RVs arriving on city streets?

The city of LA is ending its pandemic waivers … and will start getting rid of RVs and campers parked on city streets inside Los Angeles city limits.

On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council listed the two year moratorium on RV tickets.

There are huge complaints from residents who say some RV dwellers dump human waste on streets, use drugs and accumulate trash.

City officials say they will begin to enforce the RV ban next month.

They  prioritizing RVs and campers that are unregistered, inoperable or heavily damaged, as well as ones that interfere with construction, pose a safety hazard by blocking driveways or traffic or have had multiple responses from the Department of Sanitation. 

Officials will also resume towing cars that violate posted parking restrictions.

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