City Council May Ban Traffic Light, Spend $500k To Fix Legacy Park, Rent Out Bluffs Park for Tractors
Written by 991KBU on June 22, 2018
Malibu’s city council meeting on Monday may be the end of the request by Malibu Beach Inn to expand its operations to straddle Pacific Coast Highway.
The hotel is planning to move its pakring lot to the inland side of Pacifc Coast Highway … and install a swimming pool where its currently cars are parked.
The hotel owners went to the Coastal Commission and promised to increases coastal access … by putting in a second traffic light and crosswalk near the Malibu Pier …. about 700 feet from the priginal traffic light.
Coastal said great.
The hotel then went to Caltrans … and said “Coastal wants us to put in the traffic light.”
Caltrans said great … and the hotel actually dug up PCH to put in the trenches for the traffic light wiring.
But the city has not signed off on the concept … and some Malibu residetns are unhappy that traffic will get snarled while valets zip back and forth to deliver cars to hotel guests from the parking lot across the street.
At least one city council member … Schuyler Peak … has voiced opposition to the plan.
If the traffic light is yanked … that would mean an end to the hotel straddling PCH in the center of Malibu.
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Also on the agenda … a $120,000 project to figure out what went wrong at Legacy Park … where most of the trees and other landscaping have died.
Actually … the project would design a way to remove salt that has been pumped into the Park soil by mistake.
It may cost a half million dollars to replant the centerpiece park in Malibu … where the award winning water cleaning project malfunctioned in a most unfortunate way.
The city manager says money earned from the Lumberyard shopping center rentals will pay for the half million dollar engineering mistake.
But that money was supposed to go to the city Bank accounts …
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Should land at Malibu’s Bluffs Park be used to store construction equipment?
That question also faces the Malibu city Council on Monday night.
Under a deal made with the owners of the vacant land surrounding the park to the north and east … five expensive mansions are being built next to Bluffs Park.
In order to get out of the obligation to put a park on that land … the owner is transferring one and three-quarter acres of land to the city for park use … next to the existing baseball field.
That land will become city property this summer.
The city is in the midst of environmental impact report to determine what can be built at Bluffs Park.
So the Company building the houses wants to park its construction equipment on the new vacant city parkland.
The city says that … if that is done … the fair market value for the rental would be about a half million dollars for 2 two years.
The developer of the multi multimillion dollar project is offering … Half of that.
This project used to be called the Crummer Property … now it’s called the case project.
The construction yard would be at the eastern end of the park … a highly visible location … with breathtaking views.
