OXNARD : Houses Approved at Mandalay Bay
The Oxnard City Council altered city plans Tuesday to allow construction of a 156-house subdivision at Mandalay Bay.
The council voted 3 to 0 in favor of altering plans for Mandalay Bay to permit building the waterfront project on 58 acres beside a canal serving the Edison Co. power plant.
The plan, called Harbour Pointe replaces an earlier proposal to build four 10-story condominium buildings.
“Ten-story condominiums weren’t going to fly,” said Stanley E. Cohen, an attorney for the subdivision’s developer, Voss Construction of Oxnard. “There wasn’t a market for them.”
The 156 lots along water channels connected to the Edison Co. canal will be offered for sale for $300,000 to $400,000 each, Cohen said. Property owners, he said, then can choose their own house designs, Cohen told the council.
The subdivision will include parcels of land left open for future commercial or recreational use. The plans also include a waterfront park with a bicycle and hiking path.
Cohen was the only person to speak at the council hearing, despite county officials’ 11th-hour attempts to have it postponed. The council rejected a request for postponement from Channel Islands Harbor manager Frank Anderson, who had complained that the Voss environmental impact report was inadequate.
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