Isla Vista is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California in the United States.
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Isla Vista is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California in the United States.
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Isla Vista enjoys a Mediterranean climate and often has slightly less precipitation than either Santa Barbara or Goleta.
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Isla Vista is located on a south-facing portion of the Santa Barbara County coast, between Coal Oil Point and Campus Point in view of the Channel Islands.
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Since Isla Vista has not been annexed by either Goleta or Santa Barbara, remaining unincorporated, only county funds are available for civic projects.
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Isla Vista mesa was part of the Mexican land grant Rancho Dos Pueblos made in 1842 to Nicolas A Den.
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The Ilharreguys arranged in 1925 the subdivision of the central tract they named Isla Vista, and laid out and named the four streets closest to the bluff: Del Playa, Sabado Tarde, Trigo, and Pasado.
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Isla Vista subdivisions are the earliest urban subdivisions performed in the Goleta Valley in the 20th century.
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About that time the youth culture or counterculture ramped up, and Isla Vista became a natural waystation for youth who were hitchhiking up and down the coast of California.
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Student group known as the "IV League, " organized itself to take civic responsibility for Isla Vista, and coordinated street parties, meetings with the deputies, cleanups, and planting of street trees.
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Isla Vista became sundered from the surrounding communities, and in the long run, most of the eclectic Isla Vista businesses have disappeared.
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Isla Vista has been an incubator for youth culture, and has always had a number of local bands.
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The economic development of Isla Vista has been neglected, and it remains mostly a bedroom community of young people, with an odd and eclectic commercial district.
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On May 23,2014, the 2014 Isla Vista killings occurred where seven people, including the attacker, were killed and fourteen others were injured.
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Traditionally, Isla Vista is the area boxed in by El Colegio Road to the north, Ocean Road to the east, the beach to the south, and Camino Majorca to the west.
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The densest of the three subdivisions in the box, called Isla Vista, was in 2010 the 87th densest census tract in California.
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Isla Vista census-designated place defined in 2000 adds considerable land "outside the box", including the UCSB campus, Storke Ranch, and the area between Los Carneros and Storke Road north to Hollister Avenue, and contained a population of 18,344 and a land area of 2.
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The Isla Vista subdivision was established in 1925, the Ocean Terrace subdivision between University of California, Santa Barbara and Camino Pescadero, and the Orilla del Mar subdivision between Camino Corto and the UCSB West Campus, both built in 1926.
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Whether or not to include Isla Vista was a subject of debate during incorporation planning, where a Goleta resident expressed concern about polls that indicated opposition to Isla Vista by all Goletans.
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High percentage of non-family residents living below the poverty line can be attributed to the fact that Isla Vista is a town populated predominantly by college students.
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Rowdiness in county-administered Isla Vista increased despite admonitions of UCSB administrators.
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The residents and students that reside in Isla Vista tended to have a negative view of the overcrowded event as visitors tended to litter and completely trashed the neighborhood, making it impossible to find parking or even drive around anywhere.
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Isla Vista is an unincorporated community within Santa Barbara County, California.
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