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On Tuesday evening, 2nd District Supervisor Laura Capps said the board was seeing compromises being made before their eyes. Project agent Lonny Roy had spent the dinner hour working with county staff and counsel to create a revised project description for a pair of three-story buildings proposed in Isla Vista — one that reflected a compromise the developers and neighbors made to add more parking to the controversial project. The supervisors approved it unanimously.
“This was a win for everyone,” said longtime Isla Vista local Pegeen Soutar, who had appealed the originally approved project, later adding, “the project will provide more housing for Isla Vistans with 50 percent more parking than originally proposed. It was a creative and cooperative solution.”…