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14,000 Gaviota Acres Permanently Preserved
Plan finalized between Hansen Family and California Rangeland Trust. Read story.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
GavPac Gone Rogue?
Final meetings get testy as advisory group asserts its will over Gaviota Coast planning. Read story.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Gaviota Cluster Buster?
Planning Committee votes to redo little-known land use policy. Read story.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Trailblazing Gaviota the Slow Way
Planning committee grinding out details of public trail access. Read story.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Bixby Being Bad?
Coastal Commission staff hits Gaviota Ranch with notice of violations. Read story.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Public Comment Over for Las Varas Ranch Project
The public comment period on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the Gaviota Coast's Las Varas Ranch project officially closed this week. Read story.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Divvying Up Gaviota Coast
Plans are in full swing to split the Las Varas Ranch on the Gaviota Coast into six subplots, and community members expressed their concern in no uncertain terms at a March 3 meeting of the Santa Barbara Planning Commission. Read story.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Tug-of-War Marathon
Board of Supes, Coastal Commission power struggle regarding development codes continues. Read story.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Naples for Everyone?
First Bank quietly grants public access at the historic property. Read story.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Saving What Remains of the Coast
The last 20 miles of undeveloped Southern California coastline is at Gaviota, and Naples its symbolic heart, a parcel that has so far confounded speculators’ schemes. Are its days again numbered? Read story.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Power Struggle
The County Supervisors wrestle with the Coastal Commission. Read story.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Gaviota Developers Win One…For Now
Court of appeals rules in favor of Makar property. Read story.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Supervisors to Rescind Approval of Monster Ballantyne House
It looks like the Board of Supervisors is going to have to rescind its controversial approval of the house planned for the top of Farren Road at the eastern most gate of the Gaviota Coast. Read story.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Man Killed By Train
Midday collision with northbound Amtrak train occurred near Refugio Beach. Read story.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Planning Gaviota
It is probably safe to say that the flaring of frustrations, when Gaviota’s future is under discussion, is on the short list with death and taxes as one of the few certainties in life. Read story.
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