Incremental Progress, Fire, and a Great Chili Cookoff
The City is approaching the 1/3 milepost on the journey to rebuilding Malibu. According to the City’s website The City recently granted the 15thBuilding Permit for a Woolsey rebuild. A total of 148 applications have been turned into Planning since Woolsey. Only 18 of the Planning applications are still waiting for approval so they can […]
Overdue for some good news?
Here we are some 9 ½ months after the fire and we all need a little good news. Lots of good things have happened over the past 4 months as the City, County and various private groups have mobilized to assist those affected by the fire to get back into housing and rebuild their lives. […]
What’s wrong with the Planning Commission?
Over the last two weeks, I’ve had a lot of time to think about Woolsey and the amount of time it will take for the community to recover and the scars to fade. We have an annual family reunion at a timber farm property near the southern entrance to Yosemite. My wife has been going […]
City Council listens to the Public and graciously puts TDSF reduction to death.
Last Monday July 1st over 300 of you turned out for the Planning Commission hearing. The Main Auditorium was filled past capacity and the Lobby was standing room only as well. Over 4 hours of testimony from residents were given before the Commission began their deliberations. 92% of all comments were extremely negative about the […]
The Nature of Emergencies
At the City Council meeting on last Monday, the 12thof August, the Council received a 50 page+- draft report on how the City can improve its responses to future emergencies. The City’s integration with the various outside agencies that control our destiny in these events is a major theme of these improvements. Within the next […]
District 29 news plus planning and preparing
Exciting news! I was just informed by Evelin Weber of the Malibu Foundation that Sheila Keuhl put forward a Board of Supervisors Resolution to waive $2,200,000 of Waterworks Dist. #29 fire rebuild fees. This is not a total waiver but it is a large percentage of the total fees that are applicable. I will have […]
My query resolved! Insurance battles are holding back the recovery.
After last weeks column “Moving right along, the way forward is clear” was printed, I was contacted by several people who were willing to share some of the challenges they are facing. In a disaster situation you will probably not be dealing with an Insurance adjuster who is based in California. The sheer volume of […]
Moving right along, the way forward is clear.
At the beginning of the City Council meeting last week, Craig George was recognized as part of his impending retirement from his post as the Chief of the City’s Environmental Sustainability Department. He has been overseeing the Building and Safety as well as the Environmental Programs area, formerly known as the Health Department. In Craig’s […]
Resilience ideas and opportunities
Summer has apparently arrived as the June gloom departed on Saturday night. Monday June 3rd, the Planning Department reported 113 full fire rebuilds with no more than a 10% increase in home size were in the application process. Another 25 applications from owners who want a more than 10% size increase and are willing to […]
Resilience is the key
As more and more data accumulates about COVID-19, Woolsey, the City, the nation and business community’s challenges I have grown increasingly convinced that resilience is the most valuable attribute of any organization or system. Covid revealed to us that recommendations for a National Strategic reserve of masks, personal protective devices and Ventilators had been ignored […]
