Help Protect 27.5 Acres of Sensitive Coastal Open Space
This threatens 27.5 acres of coastal open space adjacent to the Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve and Carpinteria Harbor Seal Rookery.
This project disregards the multi-generational effort to preserve the Bluffs and protect Carpinteria from sprawl.
An Environmental Impact Report for this project is being drafted. This process will take at least 6 months from July 2026, and likely longer. Once the Draft is complete, a public comment period will be open to provide further input.
Your input can shape the study areas of the EIR, so they’re specific to this unique, environmentally sensitive coastal open space.
Email public comments to TheFarmProject@carpinteriaca.
These comments will help shape the Environmental Impact Report and make it specific to this uniquely important and sensitive property. Provide comments highlighting your personal experience and how 191 homes might impact views, animals, traffic, railroad safety.
97 Standalone Homes – 5 bedroom, 3,500 square feet
94 Townhomes as triplexes – 3-4 bedroom, 1,800 square feet
2-car garages for every unit and parking for 683 cars
500,000 square feet of new buildings (about 9 football fields)
Project Plans
191 luxury homes onto the Carpinteria Bluffs
“It creates open space.”
How do new buildings create open space?
“It makes housing more affordable.”
How do $5-10 million homes create affordability?
“This is the right location for housing.”
Why does it use builder’s remedy to bypass local rules?
We will continue to work with environmental nonprofit, land-preservation and law groups to establish a strategy for defending this sacred, open, undeveloped land from the threat of a sprawling, luxury coastal development.
Our ultimate goal is to raise funds to acquire this property for permanent preservation.
