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    'Hidden' no more: California Coastal Commission OKs new public path to Malibu beach

    LOS ANGELES — The June gloom hung heavy along the empty shore of Escondido Beach last week, where not a soul was in sight save for a lone surfer skimming the distant waves. The sandy stretch has long been a haven for intrepid Malibu beachgoers, sandwiched as it is between Geoffrey's Restaurant to the east and Paradise Cove to the west, with no other entry points nearby. But after a 40-year ...
    by Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times Jun 07, 2023 5 minutes
    The owners of the properties at 27910 Pacific Coast Highway, middle, and 27920 Pacific Coast Highway, left, installed fences, driveways, dumpsters and landscaping along the highway to obscure the public easement to Escondido Beach on May 31, 2023, in Malibu, California.

    LOS ANGELES — The June gloom hung heavy along the empty shore of Escondido Beach last week, where not a soul was in sight save for a lone surfer skimming the distant waves.

    The sandy stretch has long been a haven for intrepid Malibu beachgoers, sandwiched as it is between Geoffrey's Restaurant to the east and Paradise Cove to the west, with no other entry points nearby.

    But after a 40-year battle, the California Coastal Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved an agreement with two homeowners that will restore a long-obscured public access point to Escondido Beach from the Pacific Coast Highway.

    It will mark the first new direct or 'vertical' path from the highway to a beach in Malibu since 2015. Wealthy residents here have been known to to deter such access to the shoreline.

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