Electrical contractor in Malibu.

What is different here

Its own permits, the Coastal Commission, and no gas on half the streets.

Malibu incorporated in 1991 and runs its own building department, so electrical permits are City of Malibu permits and the inspectors are the city's. Nearly all of Malibu is also inside the California Coastal Zone, which adds a layer of review to anything that changes the outside of a property, and that can include where a generator pad or an exterior panel goes. Power comes from Southern California Edison, and SCE's Public Safety Power Shutoffs hit Malibu harder and more often than almost anywhere else in Los Angeles County, because the whole city sits against the Santa Monica Mountains in a very high fire hazard severity zone. Large parts of Malibu have no natural gas main, which means a standby generator runs on propane and the tank is part of the design.

County Line Electric works in Malibu on new construction, on rebuilds after the Franklin Fire of December 2024 and the eastern edge of the Palisades Fire, and on generators, Lutron lighting and automation in existing homes from Point Dume to the Colony. The office in Newbury Park is on the other side of the mountains, about forty minutes over Kanan or Malibu Canyon.

Custom homes and rebuilds

Estate-scale electrical on the coast.

Malibu custom homes are large, spread out and full of systems: guest houses, pool and spa equipment, gates and cameras, outdoor lighting and audio, Lutron control throughout, a generator and often solar and batteries. County Line is the electrical sub on those houses for builders and architects, carrying the scope from the temporary power through the final. Since the fires, that includes rebuilds on the Pacific Coast Highway side of the Palisades Fire and in the Franklin Fire area around Serra Retreat and Malibu Canyon. New construction in Malibu describes that work.

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