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PRICE REDUCTION TO $1,190,000 Phenomenal Panoramic Ocean View Home Relax and rejuvenate in this private, two-story California beach bungalow. The sun-filled main floor offers a great room with sliding doors to the wrap-around deck, seamless glass windows with stunning ocean and sunset views, galley kitchen, family room and great room plus bonus/office room. The large ocean view master suite with a...

ANOTHER Price Reduction-1620 LAGUNA DR OCEANO $975,000 This immaculate and meticulously maintained home sits just 5 houses from the ocean in the sought after Oceano Dunes. This light-filled warm home has an excellent layout that lends itself to comfortable living with 2 bedrooms on the first floor and a large master on the second story or can easily be converted to multi family living by closing off the...

City is now accepting applications for Year 3 grants Do you have an idea for a project, event, or initiative that could help improve your neighborhood? The City's Neighborhood Matching Grant Program wants to help! In 2016 and 2017, the following neighborhood groups were the recipients of Neighborhood Matching Grants: Islay Hill/Arbors Neighbors, the Cerro San Luis Foothills Neighbors, the Mitchell...

The San Luis Obispo City Council will consider three design options Aug. 15 for the Broad Street “Bicycle Boulevard” to make the cycling and walking route between downtown and Foothill Boulevard safer and more “low stress.” More than 300 cyclists use the route each day, traveling between the downtown core and Cal Poly or to two elementary schools on the north end of town, said Luke Schwartz, a...

Travelers still need to use an inland detour to reach a stretch of Highway 1 affected by road closures, but they now have access to a much longer stretch of coastline as of Tuesday. Caltrans announced in a news release that workers had blasted away the only remaining obstacle — a large boulder — and reopened the road at Paul’s Slide as of 9 a.m. Tuesday. The slide, the smaller of two major...

The California state Senate has approved a new fee on real estate transactions to help generate hundreds of millions of dollars for affordable housing. The legislation passed Thursday would impose a $75 fee on documents such as deeds and notices, with a cap of $225 per transaction. The bill now heads to the Assembly. California is facing an affordable housing crunch, prompting lawmakers to look for...

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Lopez Lake surpassed 50 percent capacity this week for the first time in almost three years. As of Tuesday, the reservoir held 25,887.2 acre-feet of water, or about 52.4 percent of its total capacity (the lake can hold about 49,388 acre-feet). That’s more than twice what was in the lake at the start of the year: on Jan. 1, the lake had an estimated 11,040.7 acre-feet of water, or 22.4 percent...

BY NICK WILSON The San Luis Obispo City Council voted unanimously to suspend all new rental housing inspections and work to repeal the existing controversial Rental Housing Inspection Program after a town hall workshop Thursday night. Acting on the input of the majority of roughly 250 people who weighed in at the meeting through facilitated group discussions and public comment, the council directed...

The number of homes sold in San Luis Obispo County in December matched the number sold in the same month the previous year, while the median sales price of those homes also remained the same — $500,000. Total sales — including new homes, resale single-family homes and condos — tallied 389 in December, the same number of homes sold in December 2015, according to Irvine-based data...