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L A county planners are drafting a new land use plan for the Santa Monica Mountains. Or at least the northern part of the mountains … generally north of Mulholland Highway. A packed meeting room last night in Calabasas … as the massive plan rewrite began with a public scoping session. Some residents described the […]

School starts tomorrow…. and it looks like school buses WILL be running. There was some question about that  … due to a problem with a new state law. The law requires school buses to have a device in the back row … which must be manually checked by the bus driver at the start and […]

This is KBUU News on Tuesday August 21.  The headlines: = Forget about parking valets at the Malibu Beach Inn shuttling cars across PCH … not gonna happen. = But the hotel’s plan for a swimming pool on the beachfront may mean double stacked cars right on P C H.   = More visitors to Malibu […]

A dispute over a new house at the top of the hill above Zuma Beach is spilling over to the California Coastal Commission. A plan to build a 43 hundred square foot mansion … with a second unit and pool … has been approved by the Malibu plannign commission … and the city council It’s […]

More now from that public safety meeting in Malibu Canyon on Sunday. Over 200 people … many from Malibu …attended. The topic was the shootings in Malibu canyon. But Lieutenant Jim Royal … who is in effect the deputy police chief of Malibu … broached the subject of petty crime along the coast. Royal says […]

The Malibu Beach Inn project … to move its parking lot across P C H … is dead. But the hotel was not turned down in its quest … to put in a swimming pool in its parking lot. Not yet. In a three hour discussion last night … the Planning Commissioners said they were […]

https://www.radiomalibu.net/kbuu-newswire-mon-aug-20/ This is KBUU News.  The headlines:   = Residents are not very happy … they didn’t learn much new at Sunday’s Malibu Canyon murder briefing. = 9 reports of “shots fired” in the canyon after the murder … but deputies say they have no evidence of additional gunshots actually fired. = Some of those […]

Oceanfront residents in Malibu are waiting for a letter from the federal government to arrive at Malibu City Hall. FEMA … the Federal Emergency Management Agency  … is set to rule on a city of Malibu appeal … of new flood maps for oceanfront land. The maps supposedly show where ocean waves lap over the […]

A hotel … moving its parking lot across P C H in the heart of the downtown Malibu traffic jam ??? That unlikely prospect goes before Malibu Planning Commission tonight. The Malibu Beach Inn’s owners are asking for permission to build a swimming pool in their parking lot. They want after the fact permission for […]

Many residents from Malibu … who had travelled up to the law enforcement meeting … had a different public safety issue on their minds. Camping … the proposed campground in Puerco Canyon. There was a pile of questions on that from the public … but the state senator did not read those questions. Malibu city […]