Activists Pursuing New SOAR Initiative
Backers of an anti-sprawl measure for Fillmore filed a second SOAR plan Monday they hope to qualify for the fall 2002 ballot.
“Citizens of Fillmore deserve the right to vote on major development proposals . . . just like citizens in the rest of the cities in Ventura County,” said Councilwoman Patti Walker, a principal backer.
The city’s first Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources measure lost last year when a rival, less-restrictive initiative split the vote, and both were defeated.
The latest SOAR measure allows for development of hundreds of acres outside city limits, Walker said.
“It is substantially bigger than the first,” she said.
But it does not include areas near the fish hatchery and Goodenough Road that are targeted for development in a city-backed plan announced in June.
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