After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

Plans for the Malibu chili cook off go before the city planning commission next Monday night. The new operators of the carnival are the Malibu Boys and Girls Club … which has been granted the lease for the vacant lot by the Malibu Bay Company. This comes after 36 years a Chili cook offs run […]

Controversy continues over a large movie shoot at the James Cameron wilderness park … above Puerco Canyon. The mountains recreation conservation of authority … MRCA … has issued a film permit for a large production shoot on vacant land just outside the city limits. No county movie permit … no city permit … just an […]

The MRCA says the city of Malibu is biased as it denied them permission to build a house next to a creek in lower Ramirez Canyon … the Sycamore Park neighborhood. MRCA has used state water bond money … intended to protect creeks and riparian areas … by preserving vancat land. They bought a vacant […]

Malibu’s city council votes to tighten significantly regulations on vacation rentals … but not ban them. One permit per person … and no off-site rentals … under the first version of the ordinance. The M R C A plan to build a campground above Malibu gets attacked by the city. Edison’s plan to black out […]

Southern California Edison had a big hurry-up meeting  … yesterday … with City of Malibu officials. The power company has already developed a plan to turn off the power to Malibu  … with two days advance notice if possible … when strong Santa Ana winds arrive. Remember … this is the blackout plan that no […]

Lawyers for a school groundskeeper dying of cancer have opened their trails again Monsanto … the maker of RoundUp … a weed killer sold and used around the world .. including by the M R C A in Puerco Canyon. Dewayne Johnson claims Roundup likely caused his deadly non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Johnson was a school maintenance […]

The City of Malibu has issued a major legal broadside against the M R C A … and its plans for a giant campground in the hills above Malibu. The city alleges that the M R C A illegally launched an environmental review on the project all by itself … when a major part of […]

Bed and breakfasts … and other vacation rentals … will be legal in Malibu. But highly regulated … the city council decided early this morning. Council members stopped just short of banning short term rentals … bit it’s the end of the wild west … says the mayor. At the meeting … Jefferson Wagner said […]

The Malibu City Council last night approved the framework for a major crackdown on overnight rentals like B and B. Under terms of the tentative plan, the owner or main tenant of a dwelling would have to be on premises for the unit to be rented out. But other major issues, such as whether vacation […]

One of the most divisive issues in Malibu’s two and a half decades of cityhood goes before the city council tonight. Short term rentals. Some Malibu residents have been complaining for nearly a decade … that their streets are being turned into loud party motel zones. Other residents have been renting out houses … guest […]