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.
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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