Effort For Historic Listing
2007 The county in updating historic property inventory had the Roadhouse nominated by the Live Oak History group as one of its highest priorities for listing.
The owner's daughters gave the tenants 60 days to vacate, and fenced the property with chain link and barbed wire. They hired an attorney and an historian, Anthony Kirk PhD, to challenge the Historic designation.
The County of Santa Cruz is considering it as a park.
It was torn down on September 27, 2008.
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Broken wood from the destruction of the Roadhouse
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Despite the Public appeal to the Coastal Commission it was destroyed and not recycled or moved
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The County said the structures could not be moved, even though the Cottages could have been. The next day the buildings were destroyed.
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