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Coastal Commission Rejects Plan for Golf Course
| The owners of the Dos Pueblos Golf Links property, which is just past the Bacara Resort, are negotiating the potential sale of 200 acres of the Gaviota coast for a public park. The golf course proposal was unanimously rejected by the state Coastal Commission in March, on the grounds that it would harm sensitive wildlife species including monarch butterflies, white-tailed kites, California red-legged frogs and tidewater gobies. The owner, Makar Properties Inc. of Newport Bach, then sued the commission seeking $35 million in damages. Last week a court-ordered mediation got under way. |