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malibusurfsidenews.com NEWS Malibu surfside news | July 11, 2019 | 7 Malibu CITY COUNCIL Square footage limit shot down with 4-1 vote Michele Willer-Allred Freelance Reporter A crowd filled Malibu City Hall Monday, July 8, primarily to speak out against a plan to limit total developmental square footage, and in favor of a proposed skate park. After lengthy public testimony, the council voted 4-1, with Mayor Jefferson Wagner dissenting, to remove a TDSF ordinance from the city’s work plan. The council did direct staff though to look into development incentives on projects that lower the impacts on neighborhoods, including those having to do with size. That part of the motion will come back during the mid-year budget process to give staff more time for analysis. The council’s decision comes a week after the Planning Commission narrowly voted to recommend an ordinance that, among other things, would set the maximum TDSF at 8,500 square feet on residential properties, except in multifamily zoning districts. About 300 people attended the four-hour Planning Commission meeting on July 1, with most opposing a limit. Mayor Pro Tem Karen Farrer made the motion to remove the item from the work plan after reminding the council that they recently passed a budget that set other priorities (public safety, Woolsey Fire recovery and school district separation), and that the council needed to “rededicate ourselves and remind ourselves of our three identified priorities.” Councilmember Mikke Pierson agreed, saying, “I’m completely opposed to this proposal moving forward.” “It is ill-conceived and ill-timed and should not have come before us,” said Pierson, who also apologized to the community. “I failed to see that what I’d hope would be a community discussion on the subjects of mansionization and community character would turn into this,” Pierson said. Pierson noted that the proposal to limit TDSF is flawed because City officials didn’t clarify their goal —whether it was mansionization or neighborhood character they were trying to fix, or issues of rehabilitation facilities or short-term rentals. He also pointed out that there was no solid data behind the proposal, and no mention of the financial impact on property owners. “This item is trying to fit a square peg in a round hole,” Pierson said. “Malibu is not one thing. It is a patchwork of different neighborhoods and geography and different lot sizes.” Pierson did note that ignoring neighborhood character issues isn’t good either, since land use issues are important, and development incentives are a good thing. “We can actually improve the process, not make it punitive,” he said. As the lone dissenting vote, Wagner said he planned on spending his remaining time in office “defending the people who have brought all these issues forward to us, who voted for myself and my slate that I ran with, who said we needed to do something about the size of homes in small areas and small neighborhoods.” The council also unanimously voted in favor of holding a special meeting in August to consider a temporary skateboard facility, with the goal of eventually approving a permanent skate park. “I’m all for anything that can get a skate park on the ground as quickly as possible,” said Farrer, who offered to raise and donate money to get one going in the city. Councilmember Skylar Peak made a motion to direct staff to come back at the special meeting with options for a temporary skate park as large as possible at the 1.74-acre parcel adjacent to Bluffs Park, often referred to as the Crummer’s lot, and include above-ground ramps in the plan. City staff also is to come back with a timeline and costs for an approximately one-acre permanent skate park at the Crummer site. Report mulls Woolsey’s impact on Malibu beaches’ water quality Anastassia Kostin Freelance Reporter Heal the Bay, an environmental nonprofit in Los Angeles County, recently released its annual Beach Report Card, which has provided beachgoers with easy-to-understand information about water quality for over 29 years. While the report evaluates beaches all over California, Washington and Oregon, this year’s report is important for evaluating Malibu’s water quality following increases in rainfall and the Woolsey Fire, which burned 96,949 acres of land. Luke Ginger, water quality scientist at Heal the Bay, worked on the 2019 Beach Report Card and acknowledged that the news for Malibu is not all bad. “We’re not trying to steer anyone away from the beach,” Ginger said. “Summer grades for Malibu beaches are generally pretty good. Most have an A or B rating.” The BRC uses an intuitive A-to-F letter grading system to provide water quality information to the public. Grades are based on routine water quality sampling conducted by county health agencies, state agencies, sanitation departments and dischargers on the West Coast. Aside from the annual report, Heal the Bay tests the water quality of California’s beaches weekly and posts grades on its website. The most recent ratings show that Surfrider Beach at Malibu Lagoon Beach and Puerco State Beach at Marie Canyon, for example, have a grade of F, while Will Rogers State Beach, Big Rock Beach, Carbon Beach and Las Tunas County Beach all have a grade of A+. A and B grades both indicate a low risk of contracting an illness from any of three fecal indicator bacteria: total coliform, fecal coliform (E. coli), and Enterococcus species as a result of being in the water, according to Ginger. The variability in grades across Malibu beaches could be because the watershed at those beaches is not as polluted or damaged as the other ones, according to Ginger. The BRC evaluates the impact of the Woolsey Fire on the water quality of affected beaches. In general, the winter grades for Malibu beaches were substantially lower post-fire, with only 57 percent of the beaches receiving A and B grades, while 100 percent of Malibu beaches received A and B grades in the year prior to the fire, according to the report. “We decided to look into the Woolsey Fire because no one has done an in-depth analysis of the effect of wildfire on bacteria levels in the ocean,” Ginger said. In general, two main factors of climate change affect Malibu’s water quality: rainfall and wildfires. “Rain has a negative impact because it carries pollution into the land into the water, and a lot of the climate predictions in coastal areas show more rainfall,” Ginger said. “Wildfires are also expected to increase in frequency and size across the state. Wildfires exacerbate the rainfall issue because they eliminate ground cover and destroy infrastructure.” More research needs to be done to evaluate the long-term impacts of the fire. The next step will be a much bigger state-wide analysis as soon as Heal the Bay finds funding and organizations to partner with, according to Ginger. While California generally welcomes rain, Ginger admits it is a complicated issue. “People welcome it, but we’re still not doing enough if you’re talking about water availability,” Ginger said. “We’re still far behind where we need to be. A lot of the water we use goes into the ocean.” And while Heal the Bay focuses on the recreational quality of water for humans, things like bacteria, pesticides, oils and other chemicals in the water that negatively impact water Please see water, 13
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