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• Templeton man’s suit seeks to overturn voting districts

  Templeton man’s suit seeks to overturn voting districts

  Thwarted in his attempts to get the county leaders to adopt new suggestions for San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors districts, a Templeton man is turning to the courts.

  Bill Pelfrey has filed suit in San Luis Obispo Superior Court seeking an order that would invalidate the boundaries that the board adopted Sept. 20 and that went into effect Thursday.

  Pelfrey says the lines the board drew unfairly dissected the community.

• Housing market still in distress

  Housing market still in distress

  Distressed home sales continue to make up a significant share of all home sales in San Luis Obispo County, according to the latest foreclosure sales report from RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosure properties.

  Homes that were bank-owned or in the pre-foreclosure process, which means they were short sales or sold before the homeowner foreclosed, made up nearly 44 percent of all home sales in the second quarter of this year, down from about half of all sales in the previous quarter.

  Foreclosure sales increased 34 percent from the same quarter a year ago. And in terms of raw numbers, there were 443 sales of real estate in some state of foreclosure, an increase of more than 3 percent from the previous quarter.

• County district lines approved

  County district lines approved

  An exasperated Board of Supervisors majority approved its final redistricting plan Tuesday over the objections of two its members, who insisted again that the compromise proposal does not meet the wishes of the citizens of Templeton.

  “I can’t for the life of me see how Templeton is going to be damaged by this plan,” Supervisor Bruce Gibson said. “I don’t see how the voice of Templeton is somehow suppressed.”

  He joined Adam Hill and Jim Patterson in approving the plan.

• Templeton and redistricting again an issue with supervisors

  Templeton and redistricting again an issue with supervisors

  Two San Luis Obispo County supervisors withdrew their support from a redistricting plan they approved last week, but their three colleagues, who proclaimed themselves “disappointed” by the about-face, went ahead with the proposal.

  The plan, which will set supervisor boundaries for the next decade, will go to a final vote next Tuesday. It must be adopted by Nov. 1.

  Frank Mecham and Paul Teixeira changed their positions at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors’ meeting. Adam Hill, Bruce Gibson and Jim Patterson stuck with the boundaries the five approved last week.

• Supervisors to keep Templeton in North County district

  Supervisors to keep Templeton in North County district

  Yielding to pleas from two dozen Templeton residents, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday tentatively redrew its proposed new supervisory district boundaries in a way that would keep residents of the unincorporated community’s southwest area from being shifted to a coastal district.

  The move would allow the North County community to “remain whole,” as many speakers described it, in District 1. However, it would increase population inequality among districts, giving District 1 in the North County roughly 2,000 more residents than District 2 along the North Coast.

  Under the plan tentatively adopted Tuesday, the North Coast would have 51,398 and the North County 53,287. The variance is 4.31 percent, a number the board can live with legally. It had sought, however, to keep the disparity at less than 3 percent.