10-year effort, revisions failed to mollify foes

By THOMAS SCHULTZ
NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
October 10, 2001

It was a decade ago that developer Bill Levy and his team conceived their plan to redevelop portions of three blocks along lower State Street with housing and new retail shops.

By 1998, the proposal was dubbed Entrada de Santa Barbara and included mostly two- and three-story buildings with time-share condos.

Civic leaders requested walkways, more open space and other changes that brought about a scaled-back redesign in 1999, and the Santa Barbara Planning Commission and City Council subsequently approved the project.

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