Malibu May Be Forced To Allow Rental Unit Additions Without Comment
Written by 991KBU on September 5, 2018
The Malibu Planning Commission has some serious reservations about granny flats.
Technically called auxiliary dwelling units … allowing add-on apartments or guesthouses are now required by the state of California at single-family residences across the state.
The city is moving to adjust our Coastal Commission certified Local Coastal Plan … and its a zoning codes … to make them perfectly legal here.
At last night’s planning commission meeting … concerns were raised that people would simply add on the units and then rent them out as vacation rentals.
Commissioner John Mazza:
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“Could we … and now I’m going to sound like a Democrat … can we say they are not allowed to be short term rental … that they have a minimum rent of X … which qualifies them then for our housing plan … and then be out of the woods on that thing then???”
Mazda is referring to another state law that requires Malibu to add a certain amount of a low rent housing to its housing stock.
LA County is coming up with a new formulation for that … for the city to meet.
City staff workers were directed last night … to come up with some sort of language to require that the new granny flats or backyard apartments must be rented by the month … to meet the housing shortage.
Another big concern for the Planning Commission was a new state law that requires the city to approve second residential units with a rubber stamp … without a hearing or avenue for protest.
The new state law requires City Hall to simply approve the plans if they meet building codes.
Commissioner Steve Uhring:
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UHRING: “I agree with the conversatIon.
There should be some ability to … if it’s doing something wrong, somebody should have the right to sit down and appeal somewhere someplace..
MARX: “So the commisison’s direction should be to return with further analysis of appeals options and options for appeal?
VOICE: “Please.”
That was planning commissioners Steve Uhring and Chris Marx.
The granny flat changes go back for revision … at some point they go before the city council.
