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Both argued through the 1990s and 2000s that the public accessway should be moved elsewhere, due to the difficulties of building on and improving the recorded easement area, the report said.

The Wildmans will construct the accessway and parking lot, among other improvements, at an estimated cost of $3 million, the report says.

A local political activist named Jennifer deNicola gave voice to what many locals told me: They just want the public accessway to be like the other openings in the area, with trash cans, signs to lay out the ground rules, and gates that lock from sundown to sunup.

Complaints and litigation seem to pop up almost every time a Malibu accessway opens, about three dozen times in recent years.

We have to backtrack a little farther than we would like to find the accessway to the street, and I’m just happy the truck hasn’t run out of gas yet.