Tag: Affordable Housing Sat, March 20, 2010
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Santa Cruz Housing Forum Kicks Off
Jan 13, 2010, by Jessica Lussenhop News
Let’s start by stating the obvious: people around here feel very strongly about housing development. Or putting a stop to it. This little coastal town has seen some big divisions and plenty of lines drawn in the sand when it comes to deciding how to house the new immigrants, students and trannies (as in transplants) that arrive in a steadily increasing stream each year. Some of the best known players—the bitterati of the housing fight—have been battling for decades now along predictable factional lines: environmentalists versus developers, progressives versus business interests. Toss in the affordable housing advocates, the anti-university front and the people who just like things the way they are, and what you get is a turf war as heated as gangland. There is no shortage of drama here.
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Tightening of the Santa Cruz Greenbelt
Aug 05, 2009, by Michelle Camerlingo News
IN THE CRISP light of a spring day, Cathy Puccinelli stands quietly, her eyes taking in the land that has been in her family for more than 100 years. The echo of flowing water from the adjacent Pogonip Creek is a perfect backdrop for the sprawling seven-acre property, made up of a cottagelike farmhouse with a well-kept yard and a large organic farming field.
Puccinelli says the land hasn’t changed much since her Italian immigrant grandparents bought it in 1900 to farm. “But no one wanted it then,” she says. “It was right next to the tannery, so it smelled of blood and hide.” (With slide show) -
Capitola Identifies Future Affordable Housing Sites
Jun 27, 2009, by Kat Lynch NewsCapitola City Council broke the stalemate over property rezoning to meet a state requirement Thursday night with a three to two vote in favor of confining action to two site, including a contentious location on Park Avenue.
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Capitola Mulls Affordable Housing Sites
Jun 19, 2009, by Kat Lynch NewsOn Thursday night the Capitola City Council left its special meeting about rezoning for high-density affordable housing torn between approving two or three sites and setting the stage for a showdown next week over a property on Park Avenue.
