After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

Malibu High School will drop its regular football team … and move to 8-player football this fall. The school announced last week that the lack of a youth football program in Malibu means there is no feeder program to the high school squad. That … plus the fact that surfing is a much more popular […]

Sober living houses have fled Malibu and infested neighborhoods over the hill … a largely unseen phenomenon that is an apparent consequence of the Woolsey fire. The Calabasas enterprise newspaper reports that high-end rehab centers have relocated in large numbers to Woodland Hills … Calabasas and Agoura Hills. The newspaper reports clusters of sober living […]

Los Angeles county firefighters say this years brush clearance inspections will be different. Instead of concentrating on native vegetation in the hills next to houses… The department warned in a letter sent last week that ornamental vegetation … trees and plants intentionally planted by homeowners … can be a major fire hazard. Embers from ornamental […]

Tree trimmers will arrive in Zuma Canyon on Wednesday … after the power company and the city have reached an agreement that severe hacking will not happen. Over the weekend … the city released terms of an agreement that it has struck with Southern California Edison. The power company had announced plans to cut 5 […]

= The city reaches a deal with Southern California Edison over tree trimming. = 300 trees on Bonsall Drive will get trimmed starting Wednesday. = Fire inspectors this year will concentrate on landscaping … as well as brush. = Sober living houses flee from Malibu … go over the hill. = Malibu High’s football team […]

This is KBUU News – Day 178 – the Friday Headlines: =   L A County moves quietly to add campgrounds to the Santa Monica Mountains. =   Point Dume school may not have a name … but it has a new principal. =   Whole Foods market opens in five weeks … the new […]

The Woolsey Fire has given some residents of Malibu an unfair advantage over their neighbors … as it has increased ocean views across land that has burned. That’s the contention from city staff. Within the past two months … five Malibu residents have applied for protected view status across their neighbors’ lots … which had […]

The Whole Foods Market and the new shopping center called The Park At Cross Creek will open in the second week of June. And members of the Malibu Chamber of Commerce were given a first glimpse of the new shopping center last night. Shopping center is perhaps the wrong term for what will likely usurp […]

Camping in Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Areas … ESHAs … is being proposed for the Santa Monica Mountains. L A County is apparently proposing to change its LCP – its Coastal Commission plan for the mountains – to open up large areas for campgrounds. Today … a delegation of Malibu and foothill residents is trooping over […]

This is KBUU News – Day 177 – the Thursday Headlines: =     A dead mountain lion is prompting outrage in Malibu. =     A move to ban rat poison in Malibu may be illegal … but citizens are demanding it. =     Malibu High School should be rebuilt to take advantage […]