Malibu Residents Head to Polls on Measure W

Voters will head to the polls in Malibu to decide on Measure W, which would allow for major new grocery and retail center in the city.

Voters in Malibu will decide whether to approve a development plan for the northwest corner of Cross Creek and Civic Center Way to allow for a 38,000-square-foot grocery and retail center.

“The Plan was designed by a LOCAL architect with input from educators, parents, and special needs advocates. The result? The Plan benefits LOCAL RESIDENTS - not people visiting Malibu,” Measure W supporters wrote.

The tax revenue raised would help fund community improvements, concluded supporters.

However, the measure’s opponents argue that the traffic study for the project is outdated and likely to exacerbate traffic in the community.

“Malibu Voters approved Measure R in hopes that future developments would be built in a way that would preserve Malibu’s unique rural character and lifestyle,” opponents wrote in the argument against the measure. “This project will do the opposite. It brings excessive amounts of new traffic into Central Malibu, it makes our roads more dangerous, jeopardizing the health and safety of Malibu residents, it ignores the rural design standards that are outlined in our building codes and it will lead to the demise of more of Malibu’s special rural character.”

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City News Service contributed to this report.