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To: American Spirit who wrote (17283)	5/27/2005 12:37:55 AM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Sure you don't? Here is a perfect example of a nimby lib that doesn't live up to the 'people's' lib until forced by a lawsuit> latimes.com Get some balance in your life. __________________ Activists toasted the opening of a 9-foot-wide access easement at Geffen's sprawling Malibu beachfront enclave after he made good on a 22-year-old legal promise to let the public use it to reach "wet" sand. The ceremony took place under the watchful eye of a video surveillance camera installed by Geffen. Several times, a security guard appeared to warn visitors who stepped out of the beach easement area that they were trespassing on Geffen's property. Once he ordered someone to move a beach umbrella that was leaning onto the producer's beach area. The 9-foot-wide easement, now enclosed by two sets of wooden gates, will allow the public to walk from Pacific Coast Highway to Carbon Beach. The walkway will open to the public Monday, said Steve Hoye, head of Access for All, the nonprofit group that will oversee the access path. He said workers will be hired to monitor the walkway and the public's use of beach areas in front of Geffen's property. The easement across Geffen's property is the first of 10 new pathways to the beach that the California Coastal Commission is pushing to open in some of the most exclusive enclaves in Malibu. There are more than 100 other blocked routes to the shoreline through seaside residential communities. Geffen made a legal promise to open the pathway in 1983, when he received permits from the commission to begin building his Cape Cod-style compound over multiple beachfront lots. He had been embroiled in litigation -- settled earlier this year -- over the public access question. _____________ That took 22 years.... Too f-ing funny. latimes.com ________________ On Malibu's fabled beach Thursday afternoon, resident Jayna Mins and her 8-month-old son, Ryder, were the first to use the new access path. She lives across Pacific Coast Highway from Geffen and hurried over when she saw the gate open. "I've lived here 12 years and have never been able to cross the street and go to the beach," she said as her son played in the sand. "We could see it and smell it, but we couldn't touch it." Yeah, justice for all took 22 years....