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Construction is underway at the site of the former Ocean Meadows golf course in Goleta. The new Ocean Meadows housing complex will include 32 single-family homes and six condominiums. The development team, a property management company named Cardinal Group, broke ground last fall, nearly four years after receiving approval from the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors.
Located near UC Santa Barbara’s Sierra Madre Student Housing, the development sits on a small portion of the former Ocean Meadows golf course. The conservation nonprofit Trust for Public Land purchased most of the land in 2013 and donated it to UCSB. That portion is now the North Campus Open Space, a protected estuary. The other two lots — the site of the current development — were retained by the golf course owner at the time of initial sale, with the intent to develop it. The developers said the sale of these lots was finalized in October 2023.