After over 30 years since its incorporation to prevent excessive development, Malibu's City Council is contemplating building a sewer system to replace outdated septic systems, especially following the destruction of homes in the January wildfire. While the community prioritizes controlled growth, they see a sewer system as a potential solution to sewage problems that have impacted local water quality. Council members are cautious, emphasizing that any sewer system must not facilitate broader development that contradicts Malibu's semirural character established in 1990.
"While Malibu's leaders and citizens remain adamantly in favor of controlled growth, they believe there may be a way to build a sewer that does not open the way for wide-scale development."
"A secure sewer main delivering human waste to a treatment plant would reduce the threat posed by leaky septic tanks and leach fields - an upgrade that Malibu City Council members said they would like to accomplish, if they can."
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