Goleta Planners Examine Kenwood Village

With a general plan amendment initiation currently wending its way through the works of Goleta’s planning staff, Peikert Group Architects presented conceptual information for Kenwood Village – a 60-unit residential development proposed for the 10-acre agricultural parcel on Calle Real near El Encanto Heights, adjacent to the future site of the recently approved Citrus Village – before the Goleta Planning Commission on Monday.

Many details of the project have yet to be fine-tuned, but the project would essentially consist of 15 single-family residences and 45 multiple-family residences arranged in a series of duplexes and triplexes. Lisa Plowman, a Peikert spokesperson, touted the “traditional neighborhood” theme of the development, which would include front porches, rear garages and car ports, and Craftsman and farmhouse-style architectural details.

A number of neighbors turned up in opposition of the project, most of them residents of El Encanto Heights who worried about the impacts it would have on what they said is an already intense traffic scenario on that portion of Calle Real.