By Patric Hedlund

The final obituary for a developer’s dream can be seen on pages 19 and 20 in The Mountain Enterprise legals section this week.

The Kern County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance a year ago to rescind zoning changes that had been granted in 2010 to Paso Robles playboy developer Frank Arciero, Jr. and his Fallingstar Homes company. The reversal of those changes was ordered by the Superior Court. The county is just now announcing their action this week.

Here’s Some History

Arciero’s father purchased the land that surrounds Frazier Mountain High School over 20 years ago. Frank Arciero, Jr. was known…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Cornerstone Engineering representatives explain their view of the Frazier Park Estates project to a mostly-skeptical crowd at Frazier Park Community in February, 2006.

Neighbors came out to express opinions about the Frazier Park Estates development.

Both pro-development and opposition opinions were expressed at the February 2006 presentation by the developer, one of three forums held by the Mountain Communities Town Council for local residents.

Former Supervisor Ray Watson at a Town Hall meeting on Frazier Park Estates

Left to right: Frank Arciero expresses his anger to engineer Derrill Whitten at a Board of Supervisors meeting in 2010; ETUSD school board trustee Anita Anderson was not happy with a Board of Supervisors unanimous approval of Frazier Park Estates in May of 2010; Frank Arciero was pleased with the favorable BOS decision as he was interviewed by Channel 23.

Left to right: TriCounty Watchdogs activists Jan de Leeuw, Linda MacKay and Keats Gefter at the site of the land they saved from bulldozers.

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This is part of the September 4, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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