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A major choke point on Pacific Coast Highway is about to be widened. Buried in Coastal Commission documents … we find that Caltrans has filed a request with the Coastal Commission to straighten and widen P C H. This will be at the Bel Air Bay Club … in the Pacific Palisades section of Los […]

Planning commissioners last night lambasted city staff for a ignoring their officially-recorded decisions … when taking matters that had been voted on by the planning commission up to the city council. Commission chair Chris Marx said that resolutions passed by the planning commission we’re not being conveyed to the city council. Marks joint commissioners John […]

Malibu’s planning commission was asked last night to make recommendations on the cities proposed ordinance regulating overnight rentals … like B and B’s or beachfront short term rentals. In the planning commissioners said … in essence … screw that … short term rentals are illegal under the current Malibu municipal code. And that certainly upended […]

This is KBUU News Malibu’s evolution from a bedroom community to bedrooms for rent … goes before the Planning Commission tonight. 2 years after a big crash isolated Malibu .. PCH may get freeway Service Patrol tow trucks. A local sheriff’s deputy involved in a shooting over the hill … but no one is hurt. […]

The issue of B and Bs … and how they are changing Malibu … goes up for a public hearing tonight. Hundreds of homes in Malibu have been converted to hotel rooms already … at least 400 houses and guest houses are registered with the city and paying overnight hotel taxes. The city got 1 […]

In August of 2016 … there was a big crash on Pacific Coast Highway … heading in to Santa Monica. Eastbound lanes were blocked by wreckage for 2-1/2 hours … the tow trucks were stuck in traffic … Malibu was stuck.. KBUU radio asked elected officials ….why was the CHP approved tow truck was stuck […]

State Senator Henry Stern is proposing a law aimed partly at the correcting the unreliable electric service provided to Malibu by Southern California Edison. His bill …  SB 1339 … would require electric companies to submit an electrical grid resiliency deployment plan … and then increase resiliency. The bill would also require the California Public […]

The U-S Navy has just said no to offshore windfarms … off the Southern Califrnia coast. That’s not the final word … but it is a major influence on the negotiations now going on between Washignton … Sacramento and several companies that want to start generating green electricity off the coast. The San Diego Union […]

The Ventura County Star has a great article today about the recent magnitude 5 point 3 earthquake just off the coast of the island to the west of Malibu. The magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit one month ago … in the middle of the morning … with an epicenter just off of Santa Rosa Island. That’s […]

There’s controversy in the upper Malibu Creek watershed …. way up north in Oak Park … north of the 101 freeway along Kanan Road. The Ventura County flood control agency is under legal obligation to reduce urban runoff … things like dog poop … fertilizer and trash … into Malibu Creek. The Acorn newspaper reports […]