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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/u2-rocker-the-edge-sues-coastal-panel-over-malibu-project.html
The action "denied [the owners] any economically viable use of their properties and will establish a sweeping new basis for denying other landowners the ability to use their properties in California," the landowners said in a statement.
Despite the Edge's assertion that the homes would meet the highest environmental standards and would be designed to minimize effects on views and natural resources, the project has sparked intense controversy. Critics say the project would destroy sensitive habitat and pave the way for more development.
Among other contentions, the owners say the commission's staff incorrectly claimed that the properties were under common ownership and therefore had to be considered as a single project. The suits assert that the properties are under separate ownership. Coastal commissioners stated at the June 16 hearing that the Edge had initially talked to them about his dreams for a sustainable, unified development.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 13 August 2011 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
At this point I can only imagine he's suing since he's already made considerable investments in the project. Still, he's the fucking Edge. Go buy an island somewhere and so whatever you want with it. Erect giant statues of Bono to (further) confuse future humans/aliens.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 August 2011 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
four years pass...
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-edge-malibu-20151210-story.html
U2 guitarist the Edge can go forward with building five homes on a rugged Malibu ridge after the California Coastal Commission unanimously approved his controversial project at its meeting in Monterey on Thursday.
Evans' architects made significant changes to the plan in order to win approval. As a result, the commission's staff recommended that the permits be granted.
Jack Ainsworth, the commission's senior deputy director, indicated that approval could have come more quickly.
"If they would have followed our direction 10 years ago, they'd be having Christmas dinner in their house," he said during the meeting.
The five homes that will be built — each more than 10,000 square feet in size, with its own swimming pool — now will be more tightly clustered together on a lower plateau. Their exterior colors have been planned to help them blend into the surroundings, with reduced visibility from below, and greater attention was given to reducing the destruction of sensitive habitat.
Evans also agreed to dedicate 140 acres of the property in the Sweetwater Mesa area of Malibu as open space, with a public hiking and equestrian easement linking to the Coastal Slope Trail.
The project still will need to go through additional permitting in the city of Malibu and Los Angeles County.
Heal the Bay, for instance, asked the commission in a letter to approve only one to three homes on the property.
"This development requires extensive and significant infrastructure, which would cause unmitigable impacts to a biologically sensitive area and our coastal zone environment," wrote Katherine Pease, a watershed scientist for the nonprofit environmental group.
― Bee OK, Friday, 11 December 2015 02:35 (eight years ago) link
"If they would have followed our direction 10 years ago, they'd be having Christmas dinner in their house,"
I'd imagine being Malibu's coastal commission senior deputy director probably gets to enjoy telling the rich and powerful to get bent.
― earlnash, Friday, 11 December 2015 10:49 (eight years ago) link
Must admit I watched some of the Paris show on HBO. I kept wondering how much of the ticket sales and U2 donations in general were going to help the families of the victims and to work with other worthy causes there. Probably not much.
Oh, the Edge still wears his winter hat all the time, and played some piano in addition to guitar. Bono was egocentric mostly, although they added video screen footage of locations hit by Isis, and let Eagles of Death Metal do 2 songs.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 December 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
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