After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

The Malibu Planning Commission has some serious reservations about granny flats. Technically called auxiliary dwelling units … allowing add-on apartments or guesthouses are now required by the state of California at single-family residences across the state. The city is moving to adjust our Coastal Commission certified Local Coastal Plan … and its a zoning codes […]

A monthlong romance in the Santa Monica Mountains has led to a litter of kittens for two local mountain lions. Four kittens have arrived … given the  names P70, 71, 72, and 73. They are described as adorable and in good health by park service biologists. But their family situation … well … it’s complicated.  […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =  Coming soon to a street near you … granny flats with no parking. =  What are the goals for the 5 malibu city council candidates??? We go back to the debate. =  San Diego’s electric company is going to buy a fire helicopter … for power pole […]

More voices this morning from the first city council debate …. last Thursday.  All five candidates spoke for the first time in public. Lance Simmens said his attention will be focussed on PCH. NEWSCART 77803 SIMMENS GOAL :16 QQQ: ANOTHER SET OF LINES “I think we can install bike lanes on Pacific Coast Highway, which will […]

Edison is going to black out Malibu in heavy winds … but the San Diego utility is going to handle it very differently. … In San Diego … the electric company there is scheduling a news conference tomorrow … to show off changes it is making to its pre-emptive blackout system. Why is this news […]

California’s housing crunch has triggered some changes in state laws … and the impacts may be coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Your neighbor may soon be adding a rental apartment … on their lot … and it will not be a bootleg unit like the old days. Second units are legal on nearly […]

In news from up and down the coast … Santa Monica is relenting … and will allow Bird and Line to continue placing electric scooters on the SaMo sidewalks. The two companies had been frozen out … but the city administration relented and added them to the list of four companies authorized to rent electric […]

Los Angeles County is coming up with version 2 of an overnight parking ban … for the caravan of ratty looking RVs … converted buses and campers just east of the Malibu city limit. The P C H shoulder between Pacific Palisades and Malibu has become a ramshackle campground. Parking used to be banned between […]

The first public forum between the five Malibu residents seeking to city council seats this fall went off last night … at the Red Ladder art gallery at the Civic Center. About 40 people in attendance. The candidates were allowed to introduce themselves … and then say what their first thoughts were. Alphabetically … Olivia […]

The 38th annual Malibu chili cook off kicks off tonight at the Malibu Civic Center. It’s different but the same … for the first time this year the Malibu Kiwanis club is not running the Annual event. Some controversy about that … the owner of the land has ousted the Kiwanis club … without comment […]