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Santa Maria man identified as person killed in off-roading crash at Oceano Dunes
OCEANO, Calif. - A Santa Maria man has been identified as the person killed in an off-roading vehicle crash at the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area Saturday.
The California State Parks Department identified the man as Alejandro Espinoza Ruiz, 32, of Santa Maria.
The crash happened around 12:15 p.m. in an area of the park known as Sand Highway 22. CAL FIRE crews responded and found three men in their 30s at the bottom of a roughly 20-foot dune.
Ruiz was found dead at the scene of the crash and two other men were injured. One of the men was airlifted by helicopter to the hospital while the other was transported by ground ambulance.
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Cheap rent and questionable use; a look at the State Parks employee housing program
Caitlin Conrad, KSBW
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How would like you to pay $255 a month to live at Point Lobos? Or $106 monthly to live at Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park? The going rates to live on prime real estate in the Monterey District range from $56 to $440 a month.
The employee housing program is a longstanding benefit of working for the California State Parks Department. The department has determined that some public property is better served by housing government works than keeping it for public use, but in the Monterey Parks District homes that were given with the expressed purpose of public use have been turned into employee housing.
Cheap rent and questionable use: A look at the CA State Parks employee housing program
State Parks employees are encouraged to live on the natural resources they protect so that they have access to serving the public at all hours. But some are questioning if the program is better designed to serve government workers than it is the public. Share Updated: 10:43 AM PDT Apr 16, 2021 Caitlin Conrad
Cheap rent and questionable use: A look at the CA State Parks employee housing program
State Parks employees are encouraged to live on the natural resources they protect so that they have access to serving the public at all hours. But some are questioning if the program is better designed to serve government workers than it is the public.