Please Protect Malibu

A large group of Malibu citizens has been working for almost a year to save local, vital businesses facing eviction due to a rapidly changing commercial landscape. This letter asking our elected officials and those running, to adopt an ordinance to help protect local-serving retail/services in Malibu and to assure a diverse retail balance was signed by over 200 Malibu residents within the first two days of its limited circulation. The response has been immediate and resounding from all across Malibu. We will continue to collect more and more signatures as they keep flooding in. If any citizens would like to add their voice please email your name and contact info to PreserveMalibu@gmail.com.

Dear Editor:

A paramount campaign issue for Malibu in this upcoming election is for our officials to decisively move forward with a plan to sustain our independent businesses and to create a diverse retail/service balance that is vital for the daily needs of Malibu's community. This effort has been underway since 2006 and our residents have now again spent the better part of a year stopping evictions of our local businesses, attending city meetings and public town halls, organizing successful petitions, meeting with city staff and consulting with planning experts from across the county. 

Successful plans have been gathered that can safeguard the future of Malibu's community-serving businesses with a necessary retail ordinance at our largest centers and that limits our city from being overrun by corporate chains that displace our independent merchants and community needs. These ideas firmly support this city's core values as clearly stated in Malibu's General Plan and Mission Statement.    

It is time for our city officials to take decisive action to protect Malibu's residents and businesses. Between the "Save Trancas Nursery" and "Preserve Malibu" petitions, thousands of residents have stood up overwhelmingly to ask for protections for our independent businesses and to preserve our rural, beach community. 

At the Jan. 23 city meeting, Brian Eamer and John Mazza, on behalf of concerned residents, requested that our City Council vote to implement this plan at their first meeting in March. This date is before the upcoming council election and was agreed upon by this council. 

We ask our sitting council to finally vote "YES" for a retail and service diversity plan in March. As residents, we will also only support—and loudly so—candidates in this election who are committed to this goal in their election platform. The residents of Malibu have waited long enough, the time is now.

Signed:

Signatures - 200

Dean Ruiz 

John Baier

Carol Gable 

Marilyn LaSalandra

McKade Marshall

Julie Fulmer 

Susan Kelly

Gisela and Dick Guttman

Kim Ledoux

Madeline Hayes  

Harriet Pollon  

Sue May

Bibi Jordan 

Robert & Laurie Pousman 

Maggie and Hubert Luckerath 

Beryl Scoles 

Rachel and Alan Roderick-Jones 

Heidi Siegel  

Bruce & Sally Dunn 

Doug and Gillian Sharp-Randall 

Kerry Beth Daly

Cindy and Ron Vandor

Helen Zoloth 

Patt Healy

Amy Reiss  

Cori Lowe

Graeme Clifford

Dana and Cynthia Christiaansen

Trish Oster 

Melissa Carr  

Kathleen Sullivan 

Nancy Rosenquist    

Carol Moss 

Vivian Baer  

Harry Weiss  

Laurie Peterson 

John and Robby Mazza

Lyny Biden  

Heather Cohen   

Paul Faherty  

Joanna Burke 

Carol Gable   

Jeff Katz

Remy O'Neill  

Karol Sue and Michael Gacad 

Gregory L. Kelly 

Frank Fischer     

Deborah Samantha 

Cort Day 

Amy Povah  

Gary and Carolin E.A. Sage Hill 

Jen Smith 

Bernie Greenwood  

Marie Bathum 

Kathy Wittenberg  

Gina Odian  

Dabney Day                                                       

Mary Lahym 

Bruce Kays

Jo Cherkas 

Diana Mullan

Leslie Goldstein  

Patti Fox   

Marcia Matthews  

Debbi Stone

Cynthia Scrima

Sinan Revell  

Barbara Fish

Steve Urhing

Ellen and Michel Shane

Susan M. Tellem  

Sue-Carol and Dr. Donald Desfor 

Kaisa Cedar 

J. Flora-Katz

Darbe Nokes

Rebecca O'Gorman  

Carla McCloskey 

Dr. Gayle Elliott   

Jill and Tony Greenberg   

Ruth Gould Goodman

Mia Altobello   

Lori Jasmine 

Bernie Beldner  

Abbie Baron

Janice Kora 

Jeannie Wheeler

Lawrence Weisdorn 

Cheryl Rich

Bernie Beldner 

Abbie Baron

Daniel and Carole Stark

Mary Ellen Mason

Molly Mason Boule

Patrick Mason

Helena and William Little   

Stafford Taylor           

Jon Walter Mocey-Hanton 

Sarah Marzulli  

Gloria Christian

Tamar Freeman

Romy Rapoport

Richard Lawrence

Lou Spirito

EugenieSpirito

Dan Clhen

Marylynn Santman

Walt and Lucille Keller

Dan Hillmann

Chris and Sally Benjamin

Richard Carrigan

Frank Angel

R. C. Matheson

Farima Damavandi

Deborah Forrester

Paul and Asha Randall 

Jackie Peterson 

Melissa Geriah 

Andy Lyon 

Georgia Goldfarb  

Walter Zelman  

Judie Stein  

Laurel Stutsman and Richard Stutsman

Pattee Stayrook

Dianne Landau 

Dr. Ericha  

Mary Stanistreet 

Susan Ulansey 

Morris and Marilyn Sands

Sieglinde Morrent-Swerdlow

Linda Tatum 

Marilyn Scott 

Dru Ann Jacobson

Anne Karam 

Bobby Milstein

Zoe langley

Alanna Tarkington

David Hayward

Melanie Maguire

Paola Stroppina 

Ingrid Kelsey 

Shannon Winters 

Jason LaBerge  

Heather Cohen 

Dianne Landau 

Jenifer Meissner 

Steve Rucker 

George and Kathi Colman

Lisa and Jeff Hayes

Jeff Hayes

Eric Allaman

Adrienne Elizabeth Clune

Tara Sutphen

Hunter Sutphen

Willie Sutphen

Jodi Rowe

Jason McKean

Sue McKean

Jacob Vandor  

Gill Sharp-Randall

Betty Lucas 

Laura Swift 

Brenda Martinez

Robin Spivack 

Eric Reyes

Jorden Eamer

Valarien

Ash Adama

Ellen Cooper

Julie Gluck

Susan Saul 

Peter Bieler

Vicki Arnold

Chris and Sally Benjamin                                                                   

Ryan Embree   

Marcia Rybak 

Dianette Wells

John Brown       

Diane Everett

Judi Hutchenson

Florence Weinberger 

Dianette Wells

Merrilyn Romen