At the beginning of every project, we create a workplan and set our design goals (#aggressiverealists). When applying for a Coastal Development Permit (CDP) in Malibu, we know that the project timeline will take at LEAST 9 months and more likely a whole year. Sometimes, its difficult to explain to our Clients why the process takes so long, but in short there are a lot of hoops to jump through… Take for instance our most recently approved project, the Malibu Modern Ranch, which took almost three years!
| MALIBU MODERN RANCH TIMELINE | |||
| YEAR | MONTH | DATE | MILESTONE |
| 2014 | October | 10/2/2014 | Project Contract Executed |
| 10/20/2014 | Meeting with a Senior City Planner to review Site Constraints – Due diligence is important | ||
| November | 11/18/2017 | Meeting with a Senior City Planner to review Conceptual Design Package – Due Dilligance – Good to GO – NO ESHA
City Biologist determines no ESHA |
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| December | 12/12/2014 | Archeology report completed – No significant Cultural Resources Found | |
| 2015 | January | Design, Design, Design | |
| February | 2/10/2015 | Planning Submittal | |
| March | 3/19/2015 | City Response – Letter of Incomplete | |
| 3/26/2015 | The battle begins. ESHA or no ESHA, that is the question.
City Planner overrules City Biologist. #eyeballit |
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| April | Meet with the city staff to review the Letter of Incompleteness
#letsbeonthesamepage |
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| May | Team meeting to review previous Coastal Development Approval (when the city of Malibu wasn’t a city) for a lot split and building pads…
look, no ESHA Let’s show the city. |
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| June | Hayne estimate for Public Hearing… #notsoaggressive | ||
| July | Fingers Crossed… | ||
| August | Fingers and Toes Crossed… | ||
| September | City Reviews the documents and determines that the Old Permits are null and void… Only a full Biology report can show that ESHA does not exist on the site. #OMG | ||
| October | 10/12/2015 | Let’s get a Biologist! | |
| 10/23/2015 | Architecture Design Package sent to Biology Consultant | ||
| November | 11/1/2015 | Biological Resources Assessment Preliminary Report – 56 pages | |
| December | |||
| 2016 | January | ||
| February | 2/1/2016 | Biological Resources Assessment complete – 90 page report = No ESHA | |
| March | |||
| April | 4/5/2016 | Planning Resubmittal | |
| May | |||
| June | 6/16/2016 | Fire Access Approved #MyManMiles | |
| July | |||
| August | 8/12/2016 | City Response – 2nd Letter of Incomplete – Ok, so there is no ESHA… but… we still think you should protect some plants at the bottom of the hill #poisonoak | |
| September | 9/26/2016 | Planning Resubmittal – Let’s add a “fire wall”… Don’t know what a fire wall is… #GOOGLE | |
| October | |||
| November | 11/30/2016 | City Response – 3rd Letter of Incomplete – We want story poles for the garden gazebo. | |
| December | 12/12/2016 | Landscape & Fuel Modification plans approved | |
| 12/5/2016 | Planning Resubmittal with a Story Pole Plan of the gazebo. #askandthoushallreceive | ||
| 2017 | January | 1/5/2017 | Project Deemed Complete |
| 1/27/2017 | Story Poles intalled | ||
| February | Just waiting on a hearing… | ||
| March | Still waiting… | ||
| April | 4/11/2017 | WTF why is there no hearing scheduled? Planner on Paternity Leave and City doesn’t want to assign a different planner. And so we must wait. | |
| May | Steam coming from ears… | ||
| June | Full head explosion! | ||
| July | 7/17/2017 | FINALLY! Planning Commission Hearing – Administrative Permit – Commissioners vote to continue the Project for a Full Coastal Development Permit Hearing. | |
| August | 8/21/2017 | Planning Commision Hearing (AGAIN)- Project Approved with a 10 Day Appeal Period | |
| 8/31/2017 | Planning Resolution & Conditions of Approval finalized. SUCCESS! | ||
| September | |||
| October | 10/2/2017 | 3 Year Anniversary | |
| November | |||
| December | |||
#nevergiveup #neversurrender