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Helping People Live the Paso Style, Events, Wine,
Food, Living
August 2007 |
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Events:
"Concerts"
Summer in Paso Wine Country is about enjoying the hot days and cool nights.
It's so much fun to sit under the stars on a cool night at one of the many concerts held
throughout the Summer.
Concerts in
the Park, Paso Robles.
Every Friday night, 5:30 till 7:30 in the Paso Robles City
Park. Bring your blanket.
Concerts in the Park, Templeton
Wednesday nights 6:30 till 8:30 , it's music time in Templeton. Take a
mid week break to enjoy good music and fun.
Concerts in the Park, Atascadero
Tuesday evenings, it's music time in Atascadero. Come out and enjoy. |
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Quick Real Estate Facts:
(Calif) |
Median home price -
$594,260 |
Highest median home price
Santa Barbara So. Coast $1,375,000 |
Lowest median home price
High Desert $306,310 |
Mortgage rates - week ending
7/12:
-30-yr. fixed: 6.73%; Fees/points: 0.4%
-15-yr. fixed: 6.39%; Fees/points: 0.4%
-1-yr. adj: 5.71%; Fees/points: 0.5% |
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Wine
Notes:
(Local RE and Wine News)
Halter Ranch:
Halter Ranch has requested a conditional use permit and it
has been granted for a major change in the landscape of the
West Adelaida wine area. They will in Phase I build a
new winery building and crush pad area of 35,680 square
feet. Also included are caves and a covered bridge
over Las Tablas Creek. It certainly sounds like an
exciting enhancement to a winery that is producing some
excellent wines. Phase II will include a new tasting
room of 6500 Square Feet. All of this was approved at
the June 14th meeting of the San Luis Obispo County Planning
Commission Meeting.
Land
Use in San Luis Obispo County:
The article above discusses a Conditional Use Permit for
Halter Ranch. I'm sure many are wondering what that
actually means. A Winery or Tasting Room would
normally be considered industrial or retail land usage.
Considering most County land is zoned agricultural, the county would not normally allow those
types of facilities on agricultural land, but in this case land use regulations
consider Wineries and Tasting Room
to be extensions of Agricultural
usage. We will
explore the details of this in future issues.
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Cooking Corner:
(Personal recipes and views on Cooking Paso Style)
Wild Pig: The
Paso Robles area offers hunting opportunity for many types of wild game.
Deer, Turkey, and Wild Boar are in abundance. Although I don't hunt, it's
good to know people who do. I recently was given a wild pig so I
thought I would share my cooking method for this unusual feast.
I normally use a good rub on pork, but I felt a
rub would be inappropriate with the flavor of wild game. So in this
case I smoked the pig in the Wine Barrel Smoker which I discussed in the
August 2006
Newsletter without any spices. I served it with my special recipe
barbeque sauce from the
July 2006
Newsletter. I normally like a Pinot with the delicate flavor of
Pork, but in the case of Wild Pig, I highly recommend a much heavier bodied
wine. On the lighter side a Syrah but this meal can easily stand up to
a good Cab.
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Wine
& Local Trivia:
Every one has their favorite
wine, so what is the most widely planted grape varietal is
the world and what is it's origin?
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a) |
Cabernet
Sauvignon, France |
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b) |
Grenache, Spain |
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c) |
Shiraz, Australia
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d) |
Chianti, Italy |
(Please visit
http://www.pasostyleliving.com for the
answer) |
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Paso
Style Living Real Estate:
(Real
Estate market conditions in Paso Wine Country)
I wanted to take
this time to recap some of my predictions and comments on the local Real
Estate market. 1) Well priced homes are selling: I saw 2
homes come on the market this month and enter Escrow within 2 weeks.
They were priced right. 2) Quality Homes are selling and that
drives up median price: The CA State statistics show this, Santa
Barbra Coast Median price is Up, High Desert Median price is down. 3) There
are some good deals to be had: I've seen many homes go for $300,000
below asking price.
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Area
(7/1/2007-7/31/2007) |
Avg Price |
Homes Available |
Sold/Pending |
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Atascadero |
$547,972 |
242 |
40 |
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Paso Robles |
$492,461 |
532 |
74 |
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Templeton |
$598,571 |
107 |
14 |
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All Paso Wine
Country |
$514,917 |
1043 |
138 |
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Paso Wine Country
contains the following real estate areas (Paso Robles, Atascadero,
Templeton, San Miguel, Creston, Shandon, Santa Margarita, Bradley,
and Chalome)
(Single Family Homes, SFRSB) |
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Ron Johnson
Broker, RealtorŪ
(805) 423-1902
www.pasostyleliving.com |
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