SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS : County Seeks to Pull Permit of Motorcyclists’ Hangout
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors began the process this week of revoking the operating permit of a Santa Monica Mountains recreation club, siding with neighbors who say the former tennis camp has become a noisy motorcyclists’ hangout.
The board unanimously asked the county counsel to draft an order revoking the permit on the grounds that the club, located in the mountains between Agoura Hills and Malibu, is no longer the same operation that opened in the 1950s.
In June, club owner Joseph Teresi changed its name from the “Malibu Mountains Racquet Club” to the “Malibu Mountains Hog Ranch”--in honor both of Harley-Davidson riders and “attack pigs” he said he was raising on the grounds.
Teresi maintained that the original use permit was very general, allowing recreation at the site and mentioning tennis only as an example of one form of it.
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