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Malibu Times: Malibu group files complaint alleging Brown Act violations
A Malibu community group filed a complaint with the city clerk’s office this week alleging city officials violated the state’s Brown Act in discussions leading up to the City Council’s Jan. 14 decision to explore a park swap with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy (SMMC).
Malibu Patch: MTC Challenges Council Action on Land Swap, Alleges Brown Act Violations
https://patch.com/california/malibu/malibu-group-challenges-council-action-on-land-swap
Daily Breeze: Voters to decide Redondo Beach power plant’s fate
“Later this month, Redondo Beach officials will weigh in on a plan that aims to transform the city’s hulking concrete-centric 1960s-era waterfront. “And later this week, city voters will render a verdict on another similarly outdated and massive oceanfront barrier – the AES power plant. […] “AES has warned voters that Measure A would exact…
Malibu Surfside News: Application to Demolish Point Home Is Withdrawn, Neighbor Dispute Reaches an Accord
A New York couple, who stirred up a storm when they proposed tearing down a Bart Prince-designed home on Grayfox Street, has reached an agreement with their Point Dume neighbors to not demolish the architectural residence, but instead do an interior remodel, according to city planning officials.
LA Times: Planned house demolition upsets Malibu neighbors
Los Angeles Times journalist, Martha Groves, covers the fight to stop a New York hedge fund manager’s proposal to destroy the Bart Prince Lever/Morgenthaler house on Point Dume in Malibu. At stake is more than the extraordinary Bart Prince home which modernists and others consider art, approval of the project would set a destructive view…
Curbed LA: Celebs vs. Hedge Funder in Bart Prince Demo Fight in Malibu
https://la.curbed.com/2012/1/3/10411608/celebs-vs-hedge-funder-in-bart-prince-demo-fight-in-malibu
LA Weekly: Playa Vista Quicksand
“It’s a very thorough, well-supported opinion,” says Frank P. Angel, a highly regarded Santa Monica–based environmental lawyer, who is not involved in the case. “It requires definite measures that need to be followed up.” Angel believes construction will be delayed several months, at a minimum, to fix the environmental-impact report and then guide it through…
Sierra Club Press Release: Sierra Club Lawsuit Challenges Irvine Company’s Flawed Development Plans for Hills East of Orange
A lawsuit against billionaire Donald Bren’s Irvine Company and City of Orange challenging a proposed six-mile long housing project in the hills east of Orange was filed today by the Sierra Club’s Orange Hills Task Force.