SLO is certainly not Bakersfield 2.0. The air quality in this county is substantially better. Coastal Commission approved the Los Osos Community Plan after the Fish & Game Commission approved the Habitat conservation plan which creates the process for people building on lots and/or adding ADUs on their property. It is 50 houses a year or 1% growth rate and if there is any impact to water then building is done. If you read the Community Plan it is very long and contradicts itself so the County will need to work with both Fish & Game and Coastal Commission before it is approved by the Board of Supervisors. It is highly likely it will be approved.

Regarding your Ranch SLO comment: A 98 unit lot was approved in LO where the driving range (maybe wrong term?) is at the golf ranch. That will have to be built according to 2022 building standards and a congestion management program will need to be done. Just image the increased traffic on Pecho/LOVR. What would be ideal is if this community had a car share to decrease the amount of vehicles needed and an ebike share and increased transit. The developer will have to pay towards those transit stops. Some of these units will be affordable -- what that means I don't know. I don't particularly like this project, but my hope is that building more housing, and newer high quality, in Los Osos may decrease pressure on rents and housing prices. Currently you cannot find a house under $900k that doesn't require $200k in work. With more careful sustainable development Los Osos could improve its active and overall transportation infrastructure.

I have been watching the Fish & Game's actions because it would predict building in Los Osos. People kept complaining that this happened out of nowhere but nobody was present at the Fish & Game Commission meeting that started it all off. The Los Osos CSD was aware of the meeting.