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Local News in Brief : Hearing Scheduled on Malibu Cityhood

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Los Angeles County supervisors have scheduled a public meeting next month on the Malibu cityhood proposal pending the outcome of a court hearing today on whether to overturn the Local Agency Formation Commission’s approval of the cityhood petition.

Superior Court Judge Miriam Vogel is scheduled to decide a Malibu landowner’s contention that a new environmental study is necessary before the beach community can be considered for cityhood.

The board, meanwhile, set a Dec. 6 date for a public hearing to hear local protests over the cityhood plan and to determine whether the matter can be placed on the March 7 ballot. However, county lawyers said plans for the meeting could be changed depending on the judge’s ruling today.

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The cityhood campaign was launched by some community residents after the county’s attempt to assess residents for an $86-million sewer system that they claimed was overpriced and unnecessary. Since then, a committee of Malibu residents and county officials have come up with a scaled-down waste disposal plan that would cost about $34 million.

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