Malibu California

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 […]

Four momentous decisions out of the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District late last night. And … a tax hike. First … the school district approved closing Juan Cabrillo Elementary school and folding those students in at Point Dume  … not this coming school year but in 2019. Cabrillo’s current principal … Pam Herkner … […]

The city council’s ban on marijuana deliveries may go to voters. Streets are being repaved at the Civic Center… as sewer line installation is done. Caltrans approves the concept of a wildlife bridge over the 101 Freeway. Los Angeles cracks down on overnight vacation rentals ….Malibu takes a crack at the thorny issue next week. […]