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SOAR Protects Ventura County’s Open Space.
SOAR (Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources) is a series of voter initiatives that protect open space and farmland by vote of the people. The County SOAR requires a vote countywide before agricultural, rural or open space land in the unincorporated county can be rezoned for development. The eight voter-approved SOAR initiatives passed by the cities of Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Oxnard, Santa Paula, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks and Ventura require a citywide vote of approval for urban development beyond a City Urban Restriction Boundary (CURB), or, in the case of the City of Ventura, before rezoning agricultural land within the city’s sphere of influence. The Thousand Oaks SOAR initiative also protects open space and parks within the city.
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SOAR is a series of voter initiatives that require a vote of the people before agricultural land or open space areas can be rezoned for development.
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📬 Spring 2025 SOAR Newsletter is Here! Celebrate 30 years of protecting Ventura County’s open space and farmland. Inside this issue:
🌿 The grassroots beginnings of SOAR
⚠️ New threats from developer-backed efforts to weaken SOAR
🏡 Limoneira’s latest development proposal
📈 How voter power continues to shape our landscape
👉 Don’t miss it — read the full newsletter now at soarvc.org/newsletters
We better start making sure people can access this open space … especially around the Santa Clara River where there are no access points to the Los padres which is around us and Ojai with the same population has 30+ access trails… it does no good for the community unless there are access points.
Thank you SOAR Board and volunteers for protecting agriculture and open space in Ventura County and cities…👍
And community accesss to open space is something everyone agrees on. www.tpl.org/parkscore
This is one reason why home prices are high, growth limits. Turn the area between Pt. Miguel and Camarillo into housing developments with yards and safe streets like Camarillo. Let people live here!
Thank you for the post. NO DEVELOPMENT ON FARMLAND IN VENTURA COUNTY. The original mission of SOAR was to stop "urban sprawl" in Ventura County....not seeing that mission accomplished or enforced....