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 | | With a salt marsh, the Carpinteria Creek, a seal rookery, a monarch butterfly habitat, tar seeps and tide pools, coastal Carpinteria has a lot going for it, but for years the area has been a patchwork of individual parks, formally unlinked and lacking a centerpiece. |
 | | Planners are nearly finished with modifications to the 52-acre park, gifted to Carpinteria by the Citizens for the Carpinteria Bluffs and the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, which promise to make it a focal point of the city’s coastal corridor. |
 | | The park is a far cry from the development project that Carpinteria approved in 1990, which included more than 300 units, a shopping mall, several gas stations, and a handful of fast food joints. |
| www.scbeacon.com /beacon_issues/03_03_20/carp1.html (306 words) |
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