U2 Guitarist Denied Malibu Development

U2 guitarist the Edge has been denied by the California Coastal Commission. The panel rejected the rock star's plans for five blufftop houses in Malibu's Sweetwater Mesa, saying they would be too damaging to the local environment. Edge has tried to present the plan as five seperate houses being built by five separate owners who happens to have a shared visions, architects, planners, consultants, and project managers and even a website. Which would make it harder for the Commission to reject. But documents identify the owners as Edge's "family friends and business associates, including his younger sister", according to the LA Times. The house Edge wants to build is called "Leaves in the Wind" and is planned to be 12,785 square feet.

 

Edge says the development would be built to be extrememly green, but Peter Douglas, the Commission's executive director, told the AP "In my 38 years, I have never seen a project as environmentally devastating as this one." The Commission did say it might support tow or three smaller houses on a less-visible part of the land.

 

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Souce: Curbed LA