Old Map Sparks a Modern Quandary

 

A land speculator won the right to build on Gaviota’s bluffs in 1888. He failed, but his dream has legal standing. Opponents mount fight.

By Catherine Saillant

Times Staff Writer

July 29 2006

 

A skirmish over coastal development west of Santa Barbara hinges on a 118-year-old township map filed by a land speculator who looked at the rugged Gaviota coast and saw Italy.

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