LOCAL : Supervisors OK Malibu Cityhood
After eight months of delay, and with their plans to build a controversial sewer system in tatters, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted today to clear the way for Malibu to become the county’s 87th city March 28.
But cityhood backers, convinced that the county is trying to cheat the new city out of $1.25 million in property tax revenue, said they will continue to push a measure in the state Legislature that would not only enable Malibu to recover the disputed money but might also allow the community to become a city before March 28.
The supervisors’ 5-0 vote closed an acrimonious chapter in the relationship between the community and county over a proposed $43-million sewer system.
Community leaders, hoping to limit development, resisted the county’s effort to build the system.
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