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First UGB Expansion Approved in Ventura County, California

Posted by: Christian Madera
Thanks to: Bill Fulton
10 May 2007 - 11:00am

For the first time, residents in a Ventura County city have voted to substantially expand their urban growth boundaries in order to accommodate a residential development -- following two previously failed attempts redraw the line.

"Some 61% of Santa Paula, California, residents voted on Tuesday, May 8, to expand the urban growth boundary by 4,800 acres to bring the Adams Canyon area inside the city’s growth boundary. Measure A7 also directed the city to amend its general plan to permit about 500 houses, a resort hotel and golf course, and require at least 200 acres of passive open space. The vote more than doubles the amount of undeveloped land inside the city’s growth boundary.

Tuesday’s vote marked the third time the Adams Canyon area had been placed before the voters since they first approved the SOAR (Save Open space and Agricultural Resources) urban growth boundary initiative in 2000. In 2002, only 36% of the voters favored adding Adams Canyon. In 2006, the growth boundary expansion lost by only 88 votes."

Full Story: Santa Paula Voters Approve First UGB Expansion
Source: California Planning & Development Report, May 9, 2007
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