A developer is planning to build eight homes on this property off of San Marcos Pass. The project has already been approved by Santa Barbara County, as part of a deal which kept hundreds of acres of land as permanent open space.
The start of work on a new housing development on the South Coast has prompted some demonstrators to block construction crews, leading to eight arrests.
The property is next to the San Marcos Preserve, which is in the foothills above Santa Barbara just east of Highway 154 on San Marcos Pass.
The Chadmar Group has permits to build eight luxury homes on the property. The developer worked out a deal years ago in which it donated 200 of the 300 acres of land for preservation as a nature preserve. As a part of the deal, it received permission to build the eight homes on a portion of the remaining 100 acres.
February 17, 2021 at 1:00 am by Sean Crommelin
Save the San Marcos Foothills, an organization led by Channel Islands Restoration and established to protect undeveloped property next to the San Marcos Foothills Preserve, carried out a demonstration on Monday, January 8th to announce a series of legal actions to the public.
Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto, a Barbareño Chumash Elder, spoke alongside members of Channel Island Restoration and Save the San Marcos Foothills.
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The San Marcos Foothills Preserve is a protected area encompassing 200 acres of oak savanna and grassland between Santa Barbara and Goleta in the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains.