The sad truth Bill & Nick is that "they" are here and "they" are us. The Santa Maria area needs good, clean, safe affordable housing for families who are here now, and yes, our kids who want to have their own places to live and raise their families. I've been in the Santa Maria area since 1987 and the very sad fact is that the city continues to grow, at a rate of 800 to 1,000 homes a year, eating up the strawberry and broccoli fields, and very, very few of us can afford those homes. So in my neighborhood we've created our own "multi-family housing" with multiple families sharing the same house.
We need housing for real people, and we need to protect the real productive ag land and that's all in and around the city, not in the hills to the south. We're better off to plan for future growth than to let it continue to run right over us, with a rezone here, an annexation there, until it's all gone.
I'm not ready to support this village plan yet, but I'm not going to condemn it without hearing more.
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Posted on May 19 at 10:56 a.m.
The sad truth Bill & Nick is that "they" are here and "they" are us. The Santa Maria area needs good, clean, safe affordable housing for families who are here now, and yes, our kids who want to have their own places to live and raise their families. I've been in the Santa Maria area since 1987 and the very sad fact is that the city continues to grow, at a rate of 800 to 1,000 homes a year, eating up the strawberry and broccoli fields, and very, very few of us can afford those homes. So in my neighborhood we've created our own "multi-family housing" with multiple families sharing the same house.
We need housing for real people, and we need to protect the real productive ag land and that's all in and around the city, not in the hills to the south. We're better off to plan for future growth than to let it continue to run right over us, with a rezone here, an annexation there, until it's all gone.
I'm not ready to support this village plan yet, but I'm not going to condemn it without hearing more.
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