Beach Accessway Approved At Site Of Drownings, Fatal Ped Crashes
Written by 991KBU on July 24, 2018
Malibu’s city council last night approved creation of a new beach accessway … along P C H.
The Mountain Resources and Conservation Authority … the M R C A … wants to build a stairway and gate at a lot it owns … just west of the Moonshadows parking lot.
The city council had already approved the beach accessway several months ago …
But neighbors asked for the stairway to be shifted down the beach a little … and the redesign had to go back for city council approval.
But last night … neighbors objected that the beach access way would have no parking or bathrooms… and would be unsafe.
The beach is nonexistant at high tide … people have drowned there.
Councilman Skyler Peak reacted.
PEAK ACCESS :16 QQQ: WITHIN A REASONABLE DISTANCE
“I’m inclined to just make a motion to deny the entire project based on public safety,
“I don’t think it’s safe to have a public access on the highway, and adding more public areas that we are promoting, where there’s not adequate parking, it does not have restrooms and there’s no public safety resources within a reasonable distance.”
City Councilman Skyler Peak.
The city attorney reminded the council that they had already approved this access way…
And it was a five to nothing vote to approve the new staircase.
Councilman Jefferson Wagner told the MRCA staff member that the city will be watching this closely.
WAGNER ACCESS :18 QQQ; CLOSING OF THE GATES.
“This is an opportunity for the M R C A to etiher wear a badge of honor in regards to this speech … in terms of operating it in a proper and fair manner … in so far as trash pickup, ranger visits, closing of the gates.”
The MRCA has a terrible track record … many residents say … managing trails and beach access ways elsewhere in the city.
Complaints of garbage … parking pileups … and overuse.
Funds for the new beach accessway come from billionaire Larry Ellison.
He has to pay to improve beach access somewhere in Malibu … in order to block beach visitor use at his Nobu restaurant and fancy hotel on Billionaire’s Beach.
