Malibu California

More complaints last night … at the city council meeting … from residents about the grading of a grass-covered field into a gravel-covered utility company parking lot in the heart of Malibu.  The City of Malibu and Southern California Edison officials are explaining more details about the vacant lot being used by the power company. […]

The popular Cornucopia Farmers Market has lost part of its area to the construction of a new Santa Monica College branch in Malibu.  And it needs to use a city-owned vacant lot … the ChiliCook Off site … for parking. The good news … is that L A County is about to give the popular […]

City manager Reva Feldman says pressure on the County of Los Angeles is mounting …. over the issue of inadequate water service. One one hand … the county fire department has jacked up requirements for both water flow in neighborhood pipes … and water storage in nearby tanks. And on the other …. the county […]

= A sailor injured in the waters at Malibu. = Progress in the battle with LA County over unreasonable fire rules for rebuilding. = The farmers Market gets a new 10 year lease .,.. but needs more parking. = And Edison promises to leave that vacant gravel lot in better shape than it found it. […]

This is KBUU News – the headlines: =    Snow at Boney Mountain … falling ice everywhere else. =   Thousands of trees in Malibu going to get pruned or removed … fire dangers. =   The city has an old emergency operations plan … and a new one that may be just as bad. […]

Malibu’s Emergency Operations Plan … its blueprint to use in disasters  … is itself a disaster. The old plan was written years ago and is not in compliance with state laws … or for that matter reality. City staff had just finished a new emergency operations plan … several hundred pages thick … and submitted […]

L A County Fire is going to start staffing a desk at Malibu City Hall … two days a week … with a person who is authorized to make decisions on rebuilding fire damaged houses. The fire chief … Daryl Osby … committed to stationing a decision-maker at city hall after residents told him of […]

Southern California Edison is hiring crews to remove tree limbs near its power lines … in Malibu. The company has hired crews to begin implementing fire risk reduction plans ordered by the California Public Utilities Commission. The new rules require tree limbs to be removed if they are within 12 feet of an overhead power […]

Call it hail. Call it sleet. Call it grapple. The LA Times even called it “powder.” Most people called it snow … but that really stretches the definition of the word …. snow. Icy wet material fell over nearly all of Malibu yesterday. It was 49 degrees in the Malibu at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon […]

This is KBUU News – Day 107 – the Friday Headlines: = Now at Boney Mountain … falling ice everywhere else. = Thousands of trees in Malibu going to get pruned or removed … fire dangers. = The city has an old emergency operations plan … and a new one that may be just as […]