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Commission to Hear More About Esplanade Project

The proposed Esplanade Project includes plans for a viewing platform at Surfrider Beach in Malibu.

The Malibu Parks and Recreation Commission is scheduled Tuesday to hear more about the proposed Esplanade Project, a plan that includes a viewing platform at Surfrider Beach.

The meeting is set for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19 in the community room at Malibu City Hall.

The Malibu Parks and Recreation Commission is currently reviewing the first phase of the project, which only includes the viewing platform at Surfrider Beach. The viewing platform would be located between the Malibu Pier and the Adamson House.

Commissioners are expected to make a recommendation to the Malibu City Council on whether to proceed with the project.

Ann Ryan, the designer behind the project, is expected to answer questions about the project at Tuesdays meeting.

Ryan met in January with members of the Malibu Parks and Recreation Commission, which formed a subcommittee made up of Commissioners Carl Randall, Graeme Clifford and Steve Parks to gather facts about the project.

Officials from the state of California, Los Angeles County and Caltrans would have to be on board for the project to move forward.

The project was proposed by Ryan in the 1980s when her nonprofit received grants from the California Coastal Conservancy, California Department of Parks and Los Angeles County.

More recently, Ryan made several attempts to solicit grant funds from the city in 2010 and 2011, but none of the requests were funded.

Tom Bates February 19, 2013 at 01:58 pm
This was proposed about ten or fifteen years ago. It is a great Idea!!
Andy Lyon February 19, 2013 at 02:14 pm
Yeah... It will look great when you're stuck in gridlock traffic.
So LAME ! Leave Malibu alone.
Cece Stein February 19, 2013 at 02:18 pm
What an atrocious eye sore of an urban project which btw does nothing to improve our natural environment. This concrete monstrosity is also out of touch with the current state of our economy as it will involve continued maintenance costs to remove graffiti, surf stickers and dirty melted wax that surfers will surely desecrate it with. Malibu does not need to be mini-malled into an Orange County clone. A big NO THANKS to that.
Susan Burger February 19, 2013 at 02:19 pm
A "Viewing Platform" SERIOUSLY? Since when does anyone need a concrete, tile, iron hard-scaped, artificial and manmade "platform" to view the beach? Have you guys gone mad? Why do you continually propose these ideas that do nothing to preserve our beautiful nature but impose your artificial and unnecessary intrusions onto an already perfect setting. If someone wants to view the beach they only need get out of their car and walk to it. It looks to me like an extension of a resort protruding out, causing obstruction of the view in the first place.
Susan Burger February 19, 2013 at 02:20 pm
A disgusting wast of money! If I wanted to live in Newport Beach, I would be living there.
Andy Lyon February 19, 2013 at 02:44 pm
Please Cece ! This is just another lagoon project , which you are so in favor of.
You talk concrete ?? What about the steel and concrete fake kelp forest umbrella crap that is going in there ? Give me a break!!!
Cece Stein February 19, 2013 at 02:58 pm
Once again Andy - TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PROJECTS. The Esplanade does nothing to improve water quality for surfers or improve a once dysfunctional ecosystem for wildlife habitat - and you know that : )
Andy Lyon February 19, 2013 at 03:07 pm
"This concrete monstrosity is also out of touch with the current state of our economy as it will involve continued maintenance costs to remove graffiti, surf stickers and dirty melted wax that surfers will surely desecrate it with." really Cece ?
sounds like the lagoon fiasco
Andy Lyon February 19, 2013 at 03:10 pm
it is now a mud pit surrounded by viewing platforms made of concrete and does nothing to improve water quality - and you know that
Andy Lyon February 19, 2013 at 03:17 pm
And this esplanade is just an extension of the stupid lagoon project and the stupid legacy park .
with this you can walk from one lame project to the next !!! and then keep walking up to the hotel after you go shopping in cross creek.
Cece Stein February 19, 2013 at 03:25 pm
Tell you what Andy, let's chat about this on a thread that is all about the lagoon and not the Esplanade - K?
Cece Stein February 19, 2013 at 03:26 pm
However, fight the good fight against Esplanade. It's worth the energy to oppose this project.
malibu February 19, 2013 at 04:18 pm
you do know that the city will end up building along this same area anyway do you realy want another thing like legacy park ? the esplanade is a great idea better than the dirt and weeds we have there now and much better than another legacy park
hellwood February 19, 2013 at 04:34 pm
...and the lagoon really needed an amphitheater and to be surrounded by concrete...because water quality was the priority? what a scam...and what stupid twist hidden in the details will emerge in this concrete vomitsplanade? eminent domain for the homes by the pier? next they will say they need to build a jetty to protect their full blown commercialization of malibu beach, and destroy the break.
Cece Stein February 19, 2013 at 04:38 pm
You guys are so off topic. It's about the Esplanade, not the lagoon. So let's address the concrete in the Esplanade shall we?
Andy Lyon February 19, 2013 at 04:43 pm
Malibu ? yeah, whatever . If you don't like dirt and weeds maybe you should call yourself something else !
Andy Lyon February 19, 2013 at 04:46 pm
No Cece ....it's all the same crap .
you're just showing that you are a hypo-concrete-crit!
Ben Dover February 19, 2013 at 05:09 pm
will someone with some photo shopping skills ad some surf graffiti to this monstrosity and post it so we can see what it will really look like, maybe you can draw Carl and Space Noir to the pic. Ann, thanks but no thanks, if you want our support why don't you design a new skatepark and ballpark for the kids and get Parks and Rec behind it. Leave the Beach alone.
Cece Stein February 19, 2013 at 05:16 pm
Wow Andy you're funny - You need to take that act on the road ; )
I highly doubt Fish and Game, the EPA, The Sierra Club, dozens of environmental organizations, The Audubon, the Coastal Commission and the Surfrider Foundation are for the Esplanade.
Andy Lyon February 19, 2013 at 05:42 pm
What a coincidence Cece ... I was just going to tell you to hit the road too.
Let's talk when you can count your time around the lagoon and 1st point in years instead of months.
Cece Stein February 19, 2013 at 05:57 pm
Sounds like we're on the same page Andy : ) Steve and I would love to get together with you next week and talk about how atrocious the Esplanade is going to be and them maybe you two can catch up on 1st point and the lagoon! Sound like a plan?
PCH Commuter February 19, 2013 at 07:31 pm
Why doesn't the Esplanade plan in include a high-rise parking structure that would provide parking for all the tourists that will flock to the viewing deck?
malibu February 20, 2013 at 02:37 am
the viewing deck is around 100 feet the esplanade is more than just that its fixing up the side of the road where all there is is dirt chain link fences and weeds

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