Members of the Malibu Planning Commission received an earful Thursday night from residents who lost homes in the Palisades Fire.
Some estimates for rebuilding have ranged up to 3 years, and residents in the Palisades Fire zone said they don't want to wait that long.
“The idea that it could take years to rebuild is unacceptable,” one resident said.
“Why is it going to take Malibu 30 months where everywhere else in LA it takes 15 months?” another resident asked. “Why? Can they explain that and can they tell us that? It's beyond, beyond not OK.”
“It's imperative that Malibu City move quickly to get this town back and running as many of its residents [return] back in their homes, or else we're going to lose the culture and character of Malibu,” another resident said.
Some Woolsey Fire victims also spoke out, saying they have waited forever to start on their new homes.
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“We haven't even broken ground,” one man said. “So I'm here to represent everybody from Woolsey, six years later, to reiterate everybody else's concern that any of these amendments and waivers be afforded to the Woosley Fire victims as well.”
The meeting went on for more than five hours and ended with the planning commission voting 5 to 0 to approve some amendments to expedite the process of getting permits to getting shovels into the ground and getting homes rebuilt now.
These amendments will go before the Malibu City Council on March 4.
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