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Who Was Right?
It is important to note that since 1976, the value of property
in the R-1 area has increased over six-fold, while the taxes on
the average R-1 property are not much higher than the 1976 level
for those homeowners who still live there. Interestingly, most
of the leadership of the IVA back in 1976 are still residents
there--and are still active in opposing Park District tax increases.
It is also interesting to realize that the open space that R-1 residents had at the time is rapidly vanishing. A few years ago, UCSB put 64 condos in the middle of the West Campus open space and plan another 100 units plus a new complex of 250 households under the 1990 Campus Development Plan. In addition, most of the remaining vacant lots in R-1 are scheduled to have houses constructed on them in the next few months due to the passage of Measure T in the November 1987 election.
One IVA activist verbally attacked Doug Butler at a 1988 Goleta
Water Board meeting, saying that Butler was to blame for all of
the open space disappearing in I.V.'s R-l neighborhood. Butler
had been the leader of the campaign to pass Measure T, which provided
enough water to build 250 homes in Isla Vista and Goleta.
"Listen, you people in the R-1 could have saved all that
open space if you had supported some of the park bonds in Isla
Vista," he shot back. "Instead, you fought against them,
saving yourself $60 to $75 a year, and look what you got!"
In the meantime, the Isla Vista Park District has purchased 27 acres of land in Isla Vista (some with vernal pools) over the period 1997-87, most of which would cost six to eight times as much if they were to be purchased today.
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