Ventura—During its Tuesday, Dec. 10 meeting, the City Council amended its Ventura Veterans Affordable Housing Project (Ventura Springs) at 10866 Morning Glory Road.
The agreement increases the contribution to $817,834 and authorizes the City’s Finance Department to support the increase partially.
City Manager Bill Ayub said the project contains 122 affordable units on 10.03 acres, with 54 permanent supportive units for homeless individuals.
Ventura Community Management Analyst Joe Anthony Carlos said that a Community of Friends presented the request for Ventura Springs.
“The Ventura Springs Project, originally the Ventura Veteran’s Housing Project, an affordable housing project for Veterans.”
He said for the original grant deed, the State was to provide an access easement from Telephone Road to the project site, which the city owns.
“The access easement was assumed to incorporate the State-owned private driveway on Telephone Road to the Veteran’s home on the State-owned property as a private street that continued south to the boundary of the project site,” he said. “The project developers took that into account, with the private street becoming Stargazer Way when it enters Ventura Springs.”
After reviewing the Stargazer Way plans, he said the State requested the entire length of the transferred property…
