For 75 Years MTC Has Been the 

Voice of the People of Malibu

 

Malibu Township Council is the Grande Dame of community organizations.

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As such, she has served as a representative and advocate for the residential community since 1947.

 

It was a team of MTC members who laid the groundwork for the formation of the City of Malibu. In the 1980s, MTC members raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and spent just as many hours to escape control by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, and to be able to control their own destiny.

Old-timers who fully understand Malibu know that it is not surprising for area residents to do this.

So magical is this place, that its earliest residents who fell in love with its sunshine and first explored its 17 canyons and its picturesque rocky coastline were willing to give up convenience to be surrounded by this Paradise. They were enraptured by dolphins leaping out of the waves, the insouciant sea lions, and even the coyotes, mountain lions, and bears. 

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​Cut off from Santa Monica and Downtown by narrow, steep, and windy roads, and from San Fernando Valley by a barrer of mountains, Malibu's first residents made significant personal sacrifices to remain here, captured by Malibu's magic.

For each succeeding generation, the Malibu story has been roughly the same. Even now, cellphone service and TV reception are spotty.  But the hassles of city life seem far away.  There are no large department stores, not many chain stores, no airports, no high-rise buildings, no industrial plants.

 

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Protecting this Paradise - in its many forms - always has been the mission of

Malibu Township Council.

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MTC serves as a civic monitor, analyzing governmental decisions that would result in harming the environment, public safety, or Malibu's natural beauty and charm. MTC's involvement on each issue has ranged from hiring experts to conduct research, to conducting community education, enlightenment, and publicity programs.

Here are some of the proposals and projects that MTC has spearheaded, funded, or supported.

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• In 1963 opposed the state freeways proposed through Malibu Canyon and along PCH that would have made it impossible for Malibu to retain any of the community character that exists here today.

• In 1979 Initiated a proposal and worked with City Council and Cal Trans to ban trucks with four or more axles from Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.

• Provided seed money for the City of Malibu incorporation movement after Malibu Township Council Committee members, who strongly favored the idea, formed the Malibu Committee for Incorporation. The eventual result was that 21 miles of Malibu coastline were incorporated as the City of Malibu on March 28, 1991. Since many of those who had worked for Cityhood helped draft the City's Mission Statement* and Vision Statement* (see footer below for full texts), perhaps it is not coincidence that some of the wording sounds similar to phraseology included in MTC's Article of Incorporation, dated Jan. 2, 1947. (See home page).

• Opposed the 2009 Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board ban on septic systems as well as a City sewer proposal for the Malibu Civic Center. The decision meant that "new septic systems would not be permitted in Malibu and owners of existing systems would have to halt wastewater discharges within a decade." For many in Malibu the decision meant that with new systems capable of quickly draining septic waste, Malibu would be in danger of massive and widespread over-development. This was just what was meant to be avoided when the Malibu Committee for Incorporation worked so hard to found a new city. 

• Throughout the 1980s, prior to cityhood, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire experts to oppose the County sewer to be buried under the unstable Pacific Coast Highway.

 

• Opposed the MRCA's plan for overnight camping in the mountains behind Malibu because of the extreme fire hazard. 

•  Vigorously opposed Las Virgines Sewage Treatment Plant's dumping of effluent into Malibu Creek which ends up in our ocean.

• MTC has participated at every opportunity in planning for revisions to the state-owned Pacific Coast Highway.  

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•  First home on Malibu Beach, now known as the Adamson House, was built in 1929 by Rhoda Adamson and Merritt Adamson. It was built on 13 acres given to Rhoda by her mother, May Rindge, who, with her husband, Frederick were Malibu's pioneer settlers, arriving here in 1892. For a full history of the Adamson House, click here: http://www.adamsonhouse.org/history.htm

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To join Malibu Township Council or make a donation, click HERE, or hit the "Contact, Join Us" item below. ​​