Carpinteria Ca Development And Redevelopment

A grass-roots effort to save the oceanfront Carpinteria Bluffs from development succeeded when escrow closed this week on the 52-acre, $3.95-million property. The Land Trust of Santa Barbara County closed escrow on the property and will soon turn it over to Carpinteria for a park. Carpinteria had a Dec. 31 deadline to buy the property from former owner Shea/Vickers Development LLC. Campaign leaders said they were delighted. "The contributions have been coming in so fast.

Sea-gull droppings mar his white cuffs, and the rosy glow has long since left the cheeks of the giant St. Nick that beckons travelers on U.S. 101 to Santa Claus Lane, a struggling roadside strip. In fact, Santa's days as a testament to 1950s kitsch may be numbered. Property owners want to dump Santa and the lane's year-round Christmas theme and transform the beachside attraction into a Cape Cod-style village.

Tiny Carpinteria, a community so financially strapped that it recently dismantled its police force, has launched a wetlands preservation program that state authorities say could be a model for many richer coastal cities in Southern California.

Hundreds of thousands of orchids, daisies, mums and roses bloom in an explosion of colors inside the greenhouses of the Carpinteria Valley. But outside, many residents see the giant hothouses as a white blight eating up the land in south Santa Barbara County. Greenhouses have multiplied on the fringes of this beach city, with glass or plastic now covering 330 acres of prime farmland in a tiny valley wedged between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

Hundreds of thousands of orchids, daisies, mums and roses bloom in an explosion of colors inside the greenhouses of the Carpinteria Valley. But outside, many residents see the giant hothouses as a white blight eating up the land in south Santa Barbara County. Greenhouses have multiplied on the fringes of this beach city, with glass or plastic now covering 330 acres of prime farmland in a tiny valley wedged between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

It's not just breathtaking views of the Channel Islands that make the Carpinteria Bluffs so special, residents here say. The ocean-side tract must be saved, they add, because it is a rare, unspoiled spot amid creeping suburban sprawl. So a grass-roots campaign is in the final stretch of raising funds to buy a 55-acre chunk of the bluffs and preserve this last piece of privately held, undeveloped coast between Santa Barbara and Ventura as parkland. With $205,000 left to be raised by Dec.

Sea-gull droppings mar his white cuffs, and the rosy glow has long since left the cheeks of the giant St. Nick that beckons travelers on U.S. 101 to Santa Claus Lane, a struggling roadside strip. In fact, Santa's days as a testament to 1950s kitsch may be numbered. Property owners want to dump Santa and the lane's year-round Christmas theme and transform the beachside attraction into a Cape Cod-style village.

A grass-roots effort to save the oceanfront Carpinteria Bluffs from development succeeded when escrow closed this week on the 52-acre, $3.95-million property. The Land Trust of Santa Barbara County closed escrow on the property and will soon turn it over to Carpinteria for a park. Carpinteria had a Dec. 31 deadline to buy the property from former owner Shea/Vickers Development LLC. Campaign leaders said they were delighted. "The contributions have been coming in so fast.

It's not just breathtaking views of the Channel Islands that make the Carpinteria Bluffs so special, residents here say. The ocean-side tract must be saved, they add, because it is a rare, unspoiled spot amid creeping suburban sprawl. So a grass-roots campaign is in the final stretch of raising funds to buy a 55-acre chunk of the bluffs and preserve this last piece of privately held, undeveloped coast between Santa Barbara and Ventura as parkland. With $205,000 left to be raised by Dec.

Tiny Carpinteria, a community so financially strapped that it recently dismantled its police force, has launched a wetlands preservation program that state authorities say could be a model for many richer coastal cities in Southern California.