| Mobile home park idea doesn't fly
When residents of the Santa Maria Airport Mobile Home Park teamed up with city and county officials to try to develop a plan to relocate the park, they thought they would be further along by now.
However, their idea to move the park to another piece of airport property remains grounded by Santa Maria Public Airport officials, who are not interested in new residential development within their boundaries.
Residents of the 96-unit park along with Santa Barbara County Supervisor Joe Centeno and the Santa Maria Valley Affordable Housing Committee are focusing their efforts on a 23-acre site near Pioneer Park, south of Foster Road near the county public works yard, as a possible relocation spot.
Centeno and the others on the committee are looking to establish partnerships between agencies to tackle the valley's affordable housing problems.
Wednesday Lunchtime Market: FTSE slumps further on interest rate fears
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Model home previews product of new plant
A model home currently under construction just outside the New Iberia corporate limits is utilizing a new building material said to reduce power consumption costs and withstand everything from hurricanes to termites.The product, ThermaSAVE, is a four-inch thick panel of polystyrene (Styrofoam) with layers of laminated fiber cement on either side. It was developed during the past 30 years by H.H. "Hoot" Haddock of Florence, Ala.The model home, located along U.S. 90 off the service road next to the J.P. Thibodeaux Nissan dealership, is being constructed by Mississippi Structural Insulated Panels. "We're putting up a plant here to manufacture the panels, and we're building this house to show the area just what this product can do," said Gabe Sigue, spokesman for Louisiana SIP, which will be partnering with MSIP in the project.The plant will be near the intersection of Louisiana 675 and U.S.
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