Plans For Upscale Hotel Open up to Public Discussion

Malibu residents will have a chance to give input on what should be included in the environmental impact report for a proposed 146-room upscale resort next week.

A public scoping meeting is set for Wednesday, May 16 at 6:30 p.m. in the 's multi-purpose room. 

The Malibu City Council voted last month for a new environmental impact report on the project, which would be 440,560-square-feet and located on the northeast corner of Malibu Canyon Road and Pacific Coast Highway.

Deveopers had asked for a supplement to an EIR that was first put together in 1984.

The project will include a main hotel building, 21 detached casitas, retail shops, a hotel restaurant, a lobby bar, library, ballrooms, meeting rooms, fitnes center and spa and several pools, according to a description of the project posted on the city of Malibu's website.

The plans also include a parking structure, that will hold most of the planned 543 parking spaces.

The resort was first proposed by a previous developer in 1984.

The project will include the installation of an on-site wastewater treatment facility, and the option to connect to Malibu's planned Civic Center wastewater treatment facility.

To move forward, the project's developer, Green Acres, LLC, will have to submit a new site plan review. The city's staff found that the project's conditional use permit remains valid.

A coastal permit application for the hotel is now under review, meaning the project is being put up against the city's Local Coastal Program, which outlines the rules for coastal development, for the first time.