Malibu
Malibu Surfside News: Publisher’s Notebook: Government Transparency
The City of Malibu has now joined the list of a number of other local governments in the state of California that are grappling with some of the thorny legal issues related to putting the requirements of the open government legislation generally referred to as the Brown Act and the Public Records Act in the…
Malibu Surfside News: Fifth Cause of Action Added to Malibu Township Council Lawsuit against City
Malibu Township Council legal counsel Frank Angel filed a first amended petition for writ of mandate and complaint. in court this week. “The amended pleading is now the operative pleading in court. It adds a new fifth cause of action for a judicial declaration,” said Angel. The MTC attorney charges the city’s email deletion/destruction policy…
Malibu Times: City hit with lawsuit over park swap
After hinting at legal action for several weeks, the civic group Malibu Township Council (MTC) filed suit last week the City of Malibu and the Malibu City Council for alleged violations of state open meeting and public record laws. The civil suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday by MTC attorney Frank…
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
Malibu Township Council Presents Formal Demand to City Council to Set Aside Parkland Swap
This afternoon the Malibu Township Council, Inc. (MTC) delivered a letter to the Malibu City Clerk, including a formal demand under California’s open meetings law, the Brown Act, that the City Council nullify the action it took at its regular meeting on January 14, 2013, directing the City Attorney to negotiate a swap of Charmlee…
Malibu Surfside News: Application to Demolish Point Home Is Withdrawn, Neighbor Dispute Reaches an Accord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
A Beautiful Day at the California Coastal Commission
Angel Law is pleased to announce that on June 16, 2011, the California Coastal Commission denied the project of U2 guitarist David Evans (a.k.a. The Edge) proposing to construct five supersized luxury residences on top of one of the Santa Monica Mountains’ most prominent ridgelines, highly visible from major public recreation areas, including iconic Malibu…