Fess Parker
Beyond Santa Barbara County, Fess Parker is best known
as the actor who portrayed Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone in the 1950s and
’60s.
He owns a seaside resort in Santa Barbara and a winery and inn
in the Santa Ynez Valley. With the Chumash he is seeking
to develop about half of a 1,500-acre ranch he owns. Under a contract with
the county, Parker has paid discounted taxes by maintaining the parcel for
agriculture. He is seeking to break that contract in order
to build homes and a resort on the pasture land.