[lbo-talk] The 'other' Malibu in the news

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 27 11:07:10 PST 2007


You could add another Malibu: the high-end rehab one.

<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=malibu+rehab&btnG=Google+Search>

They might all be gone if, as Mike Davis advises, we let Malibu burn.

<http://www.radicalurbantheory.com/mdavis/letmalibuburn.html>

<http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-malibu27nov27,1,3581850.story?page=2&coll=la-headlines-pe-california>

From the Los Angeles Times

The 'other' Malibu in the news

Away from the seaside glitz are neighborhoods of a different sort. That's where the homes burn more frequently. By Evelyn Larrubia, Ari B. Bloomekatz and Kenneth R. Weiss Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

November 27, 2007

It is a tale of one city with two distinct personalities.

Seaward of Pacific Coast Highway are most of the billionaires, film stars and other celebrities who own oceanfront homes that unfurl like flowers onto Malibu's quasi-private beaches.

On the other side of PCH, especially up the rugged canyons, are residents of a different kind. Some are wealthy, to be sure, but many are professional class or lucky longtime homeowners who bought in early.

The inland residents of Malibu are known for something else: Their homes, more frequently, are the ones that burn.

"There are two kinds of Malibu," said Mayor Jeff Jennings, recalling a description of his longtime home. "There is the beach Malibu. And there is the rocks and cactus and coyote-ate-the-cat kind of Malibu."

The 53 houses lost in the weekend's Corral fire fall in the latter category, Jennings said. Concentrated in rugged Corral, Latigo and Sycamore canyons, most of them are "relatively modest homes built on quarter-acre or half-acre lots," he said. "I know a bunch of these folks. Some are teachers, some are real estate guys and some are working in the movie business. They're not movie stars."

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