City Tells MRCA To Pound Sand In Sycamore Park
Written by 991KBU on October 9, 2018
Get ready for another lawsuit from the MRCA against the City of Malibu.
The Mountain Recreation and Conservation Authority … the M R C A … was turned down by unanimous five to nothing vote by the Malibu city council last night … again.
The outside agency wants permission to build a house on a lot that it bought in Sycamore Park … the small neighborhood in Escondido Canyon near Paradise Cove.
What the agency -really- wants to do is convert the lot into a public park … and use the driveways and private streets in Sycamore park to allow public access.
Sycamore park resident Ken Kearsley testified against that last night before the city council.
NEWSCART 77854 KEARSLEY :23 QQQ WAY OF LIFE FOREVER.
“The MRCA is coming to our private neighborhood and planning to eviscerate, a better word, disembowel, our privacy, our safety and our health and change the neighborhood character of our neighborhood forever.”
An MRCA lawyer spent 15 minutes trying to convince the city council that Malibu was being mean and unfair … and singling out the MRCA for biased treatment.
But at one point the lawyer admitted that the MRCA … has no intentions of building the house whatsoever.
Oscar Victoria.
NEWSCART 77851 VICTORIA :23
QQQ SAME AS ANY OTHER PROPERTY OWNER WOULD
“The MRCA had no intention to build. this house.
“But unfortunately, as a result of the access being prevented to this property, as a result of the, attempting to basically guide what the MRCA could do with the property, if it comes to the fact that if the MRCA has to eventually sell the property, it has a fiduciary duty to get the fair market value of the property, same as any property owner would.”
The M R C A is an outside parks district controlled by the Simi Valley and Conejo Valley parks agencies …
Malibu city attorney Christi Hogan told the city council that it’s not their job to handle speculative real estate valuations.
The city council as already sued the MRCA over creating a public park without a city permit.
And it voted five to nothing would little discussion to tell the MRCA to stuff it … on its invisible house.
