Sorry to sound defensive.

The City of Malibu used to be run by a whole class of people who wanted to erect tollbooths and moats on PCH, and live with leaky septics and private beaches.

No more. The people of Malibu are fierce protectors of the area, to be sure. We are also the heaviest users of the land and sea out here, and value public access.

And clean beaches. Some clown in Long Beach is writing newspaper columns saying Malibu wants his city to be the LNG terminal is SoCal (a bitter lie, no one in Malibu has said that), and that Malibu hypocritically does not want to clean up the old septic tanks out here.

Ask the Regional Water Board and Heal The Bay. In the last 10 years, Malibu has done a complete turnaround and elected city councils who have in turn enacted the strongest septic tank rules in the state. Cleaning up the stormwater at the Civic Center, which has poisoned Surfrider Beach for 50 years, is being paid for with $25 million worth of land acquisition and construction.

I live at a trailhead in Malibu, and like the city I support coastal and mountain access, including camping. It has to be safe (no fires!) and it cannot be on private driveweays, however.

And Joe Edmiston has commited a blood libel by busing in paid performers to say that Malibu wants to keep the poor out.

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