County 10-29

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 this week in favor of a rescission ordinance that undoes the Naples coastal development agreement while retaining the inland agreement. The decision was made after the board heard from the Department of Conservation that, despite prior claims to the contrary, it had indeed signed off on Matt Osgood’s proposal to cancel the Williamson Act land contract and replace it with a Agricultural Conservation Easement. County staff assured the board that inland development would not begin until final approval was granted by the California Coastal Commission.

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Joshua Lynn, candidate for District Attorney in 2010, received perhaps the race’s biggest endorsement to date, picking up the support of the Santa Barbara County Deputy Sheriffs’ Association, which represents more than 300 law enforcement personnel around the county. Both Lynn and his opponent, Joyce Dudley-who has the support of Sheriff Bill Brown himself and says she anticipates endorsements from additional law enforcement associations-interviewed with the union’s board two weeks ago.