Public comment period for the Specific Plan and Notice of Intent to Adopt a Negative Declaration ends January 19, 2007.Bounded on the west by the Santa Paula Airport, on the north by Highway 126, on the east by 12th Street and on the south by the Santa Clara River, the proposed project is slated to be a live and fly-in development, with living quarters situated upstairs from aviation hangars. According to the report, the 37 units would be spread out among 12 buildings and be developed as condominiums. The site would have direct access to Santa Paula Airport that would allow residents to taxi their airplanes directly from the airport to their residences.The proposed development is split into two areas, Airpark-1 and Airpark-2, the former accommodating the hangars/residential condominiums and the latter future redevelopment of an existing residential/industrial into light industrial and outdoor storage uses.“Much of the existing development in the northern plan area is located within the Santa Paula Airport inner safety zone, which prohibits structures,” noted the filing. “Areas within the inner safety zone would eventually be redeveloped with outdoor storage uses with light industrial uses located outside the inner safety zone.”The Initial Study and Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration is available for public review at the city’s Community Development Building, 200 S. 10th St., and Blanchard Community Library, 119 N. Mill Street.
Aviation Museum: Santa Paula Air Park Specific Plan filed for review
January 03, 2007
Santa Paula News
Destructive flooding caused some delays, but the proposed Santa Paula Air Park has taken off with the filing of the Specific Plan for the 37-unit residential/hangar units.
By Peggy KellySanta Paula TimesDestructive flooding caused some delays, but the proposed Santa Paula Air Park has taken off with the filing of the Specific Plan for the 37-unit residential/hangar units. Movement of the project, which would provide funding to establish a permanent Aviation Museum of Santa Paula, now contained in a string of Santa Paula Airport space-donated hangars, is welcome news to supporters.“We’ve been working on this, oh gosh, this must be up to three years now,” said Bruce Dickenson, who has been working closely with Mike Dewey on the museum project which they helped found. The Air Park is the “catalyst” to creating a museum, which originally had been slated to be located at the Air Park until the January 2005 storms destroyed a portion of the property.“Although we lost the opportunity to have the museum on that lot, it opens another opportunity.... We’ll have the cash” from the Air Park to either purchase museum property or even existing SZP hangars to permanently house the array of ever expanding museum exhibits.Dickenson said that the cooling of the real estate market would not particularly have any negative impact on Air Park condo/hangar sales. “You can buy a hangar, buy a house, and have the money left over to buy an airplane... it works out for everybody,” he noted.
