Council Delays Vote on Plan for College Park
The City Council has postponed voting on a master plan for 75-acre College Park.
The current plan does not include the Rainbow Recovery Center, a drug and alcohol treatment center for women that has been at the park for 17 years.
If approved, the women at the recovery center would be evicted to make room for an agricultural heritage museum.
City officials said they would like to wait for a legal opinion from the Ventura County Board of Supervisors on whether a deed that transferred ownership from the county to the city makes it illegal to use park land for a recovery center.
The City Council is expected to take up the issue again in November.
Mayor Manuel Lopez, who has asked city staff to look into the possibility of placing the farm museum at another location, said he saw no need to rush to a decision until the city receives clarification from the county.
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