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Housing and Development Newsletter
The applicant is listed as AFP, LLC; and Great 1031, LLC. A phone number for the applicants is linked to Agro-Jal Farms.
After analyzing various alternatives, including a smaller project or different location, the environmental impact report deemed Alternative 2, a smaller version of the initially proposed 449,248-square-foot facility, as the “environmentally superior alternative.”
“Alternative 2 would include the same components as the proposed project and would be constructed on the same project site, on the northeastern portion of the subject property,” the report said.
The proposed site for the Arctic processing and cooling facility sits off East Betteravia Road, east of Rosemary Road. While the proposed site now is filled with weeds, nearby land is used for farming crops and two cooling facilities sit nearby. (Courtesy photo)
Housing and Development Newsletter
It went to the City Council on Tuesday in hopes of obtaining a specific plan for development of the site.
A majority of the City Council objected and referred the proposal for conceptual review to the Santa Barbara Planning Commission.
The clinic intends to relocate its current center from 4141 State St. to the site, and change the zoning from parks and low-density residential to medical office use and a higher-level of housing to possibily build affordable housing.
The American Indian Health & Services Clinic is in the process of acquiring the former Army Reserve Center at 3237 State St. in Santa Barbara. (Jade Martinez-Pogue / Noozhawk photo)