In 1999 and 2012, the ranch owners asked the Coastal Commission to rescind the YMCA’s easement offer. West of Santa Barbara is a remnant of old California: Hollister Ranch. Property owners have built about 75 structures including homes, stables and barns that often blend into the vast landscape. A young buck scrambles into the hills along Hollister Ranch Road. But exercising your constitutional right at the ranch has been difficult or virtually impossible.”Attorneys for the Hollister Ranch Owners’ Assn., the Hollister Ranch Cooperative and property owners contend, however, that the proposed easements should be cancelled because the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles never had the authority to grant them to the state.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 08, 2016 10:02 UTC