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Fifty new condominiums are on their way to the La Cumbre area. On Wednesday, the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission okayed a tract map change, allowing the project’s developers to sell its units as condos. The project is known as Hope Villas in county paperwork but the development team, Franciscan Real Estate LLC, has since named it Marisol. Ten of its condos will be sold to people who qualify as low income.
Unlike many housing projects that came before it, Franciscan Real Estate wasn’t seeking the Planning Commission’s approval for the project at Wednesday’s meeting. The project, which will be located at the intersection of North La Cumbre Road and Calle Cita where the former Hope Community Church building is located, gained approval from the county’s planning department in October…