After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

First SM Mountains Fire This Year Kept To 2.3 Acres Near TO The first brush fire of the year south of the 101 freeway burned just over 2 acres of land near Thousand Oaks yesterday.  It was called there Janss Fire .. it broke out on a mountainside south of the 101 freeway at Moorpark […]

Caltrans Will Present Continuous Bike Lane Proposal For Western Half Of PCH, Which Will Eliminate Some Parking – Planning Comm Votes 5-0 To Consider Changes Caltrans emerged with a unanimous vote of endorsement from the Malibu Planning Commission last night … a key portion might be changed in a surprising way. The state engineers agreed […]

Planning Commission May Substitute ‘Protect Malibu’ For Caltrans Traffic Engineering Expertise Tonight Tonight … plans to install bike lanes and street lights on PCH … section of PCH where more than a dozen people have been killed in the past 10 years … for before the Malibu Planning Commission. In the past … planning commissioners […]

Water Supply Restored To Malibu After 12 Hours Of Broken Supply Pipe The water supply in Malibu was back to normal overnight, as repairs were finsihed at a major water main break at PCH at Coastline Drive, the entrance to Sunset Mesa. Malibu was urged to converse water after what the county called “a series […]

A two track system for building permits … one fast track for fire rebuilds … one nitpicking track for general projects … has been formally set up at Malibu City Hall. A policy adopted by the city council Wednesday night officially sets up the two track system. Plan checkers and other technocrats handling fire rebuilds […]

Incompetence, Confusion and Errors Marked LA City Fire Response Just Before Eastern Malibu Was Destroyed A 29-year-old man who had been working as an Uber driver … who was obsessed with images of fire … has been charged with setting the Palisades Fire. But that is not the lede story this morning.  The lede story […]

Civic Center Sewer Will Affect Residents On Malibu Beach, Civ Ctr Condos And Malibu Knolls Residents along Malibu Beach and in the condos along Civic Center Way have a big decision coming next year. Either they can vote themselves into an expensive sewer district … or face 10 thousand a dollar fines and a ban […]

Power Outage Victims Draw Sympathetic Ear – But Not Much Else – From The Blackout Company A few Malibu residents poured their hearts out to Southern California Edison over its dismal record of serving Malibu last night. The company was required to hold an explanation meeting … a state requirement that it explain to Malibu […]

Once Again, Council Tries To Select A City Manager Malibu’s city council goes into secret session number 12 or 13  this afternoon … as it continues to flail around behind closed doors trying to hire someone to run the city. The city has been with working with interim … temporary city managers for nearly two […]

Southern California Edison has more power outages in Malibu than anywhere else.   That story coming up … but first … Crane Topples At MLB Owner’s Controversial House On Cliff Above Broad Beach A construction crane toppled over yesterday as it was being used to install a heavy metal tube into a cliffside below Broad […]