After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

Paper straws, the most popular replacement to plastic, are in such high demand that there is a big national shortage. And Malibu may be partly to blame. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a company called Aardvark … in Fort Wayne, Indiana … has seen a 5,000 percent increase in sales and demand in the […]

California voters this fall will decide a measure on allowing cities to resume regulating rent increases. Will Malibu get rent control again??? Malibu at one time had rent control … primarily in the spaces in the two large mobile home parks … Paradise Cove and Point Dume. Land at those two parks is owned by […]

Southern California Edison says it’s new pole in Malibu is safe. But a letter written from the company to the City of Malibu stops short of saying the pole meets legal standards … an assurance requested by the city manager. As you recall … Edison got caught installing a badly-splintered pole on Morning View Drive […]

= Malibu plans to cancel a P C H safety improvement … to pay for vacant land. = Global ocean rise is going to hit Malibu in the pocketbook … hard. = A federal judge sides with Santa Monica and against Air B and B. = Edison says its engineers will examine that power pole […]

The City of Malibu will hold an afternoon Earthquake Preparedness Workshop in two weeks. [[Wednesday, June 27, 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM at City Hall.]] This one is aimed primarily at older people … although anyone presumably will be welcomed. Participants age 55 and older will be given a free comprehensive emergency kit … a […]

Southern California Edison says its pole safety engineers will check a brand new power pole … which was installed with a visible crack penetrating through the pole. A company spokesman said Friday that the pole in question … on Morning View Drive at Phillip Avenue … will be reviewed. The pole was installed last Wednesday […]

Santa Monica has won a major lawsuit brought by two large overnight rental companies. This … according to the Santa Monica Daily Press. Airbnb and HomeAway have lost their lawsuit against Santa Monica’s strict home sharing ordinance. That echoes a decision from a different federal judge over San Francisco’s regulations. The home sharing companies had […]

Global ocean rise is going to hit Malibu in the pocketbook … hard and soon. A new study says 218 houses in Malibu will be chronically flooded in the next 30 years .… the length of one mortgage. That’s 716 million dollars worth of Malibu beachfront … according to a computer study by the Union […]

Malibu plans to cancel a project to widen P C H … to pay for land purchases. KBUU News has learned that the plan to pay 42.5 million dollars to buy vacant land in the Civic Center and at Point Dume will have a cost … along P C H. It will mean indefinite delay […]

A ginormous bus gets high centered on Latigo Canyon Road … 50 passengers hike it out. Malibu gets ready to send out a half million dollar sewer bill to one property owner. Legacy Park trees are dying … it’s going to cost hundred $120,000 to design a fix. And Metro can’t figure out why people […]