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Kris McAulay
Santa Lucia Preserve
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	Robb Report - September 2007 The Front 10: America's best golf course communities Santa Lucia Preserve has preserved 18,000 of its 20,000 acres as open space. The centerpiece of the developed land is a 7,067-yard, par-72, Tom Fazio-designed golf course that plays through 350 acres of ancient oak stands, meadows, ponds, and streams.
	Golf Magazine Living - Spring 2007 The 25 Best Courses You Can Live On Ranked 9th of the best courses you can live on, the Santa Lucia Preserve Golf Course's layout's greatest attraction is that the holes complement the setting, rather than compete with it. Once you step onto the first tee, you’ll be willing to get lost for a while.
	Carmel Magazine - Spring/Summer 2007 My Own Private California: The Santa Lucia Preserve is a Place of Natural and Man-made Magic Only a few miles from Highway One off Carmel Valley Road is a portal into another land. Behind the Gates of the Santa Lucia Preserve the road may be paved, and there may be houses tucked beneath the tree canopies, but everything else feels very, very wild.
	Travel + Leisure Golf - January/February 2007 America's Top 100 Golf Communities Ranked 3rd of America's top 100 golf communities, on the Santa Lucia Preserve Golf Course there is space for 130 golf courses, but the master plan calls for just one: a beloved Tom Fazio layout that tumbles through redwoods and oaks and plays its way toward distant peaks.
	Stratos - August 1, 2006 Stratos Special Report Elite Golf Course Communities The 80-year-old Hacienda continues its tradition as a hospitality and cultural center. Hundreds of miles of trails invite families to experience the Preserve by foot or horseback. Equestrian, swimming, golf and tennis facilities provide varying sources of family activity.
	Travel + Leisure Golf - July-September 2006 A Dream Unblemished The exceptional quality of life on Santa Lucia Preserve comes from its natural setting, says developer Tom Gray. "Our objective was to ensure that the beauty of this landscape would be perpetuated for generations. Miraculously, the Preserve today is virtually as planned."
	Estates West - Summer 2006 The Nature of Conservation The Santa Lucia Preserve, a community encompassing 300 homesites, luxury amenities and the Santa Lucia Conservancy, an organization endowed with $25 million and charged with protecting the remaining 18,000 acres of land.
	Pinnacle Northern California Real Estate - Summer 2006 The Nature of Conservation The Santa Lucia Preserve, a community encompassing 300 homesites, luxury amenities and the Santa Lucia Conservancy, an organization endowed with $25 million and charged with protecting the remaining 18,000 acres of land.
	Golf Magazine Living - Spring 2006 The 50 Best Golf Communities in America Voted Best Intimate Community - Most homes nestle unobtrusively amid mountain meadows, 1000 year old redwoods, ponds, streams, and wetlands. The only outward signs of development are a 20,000 square foot hacienda-style clubhouse that dates to 1924, an equestrian center, tennis and croquet courts, and a fitness center. There's also a Tom Fazio-designed course that melts flawlessly into a landscape peppered by creeks and live oaks.
	Gentry Magazine - April 1, 2006 Travel: The Best Place You'll Never Play Golf... Unless? Stand back Augusta National. Back off Cypress Point. We've got another exclusive golf venue for you. The Santa Lucia Preserve has recently been ranked No. 1 on the list of America's Top 100 Golf Communities by Travel & Leisure Magazine.
	San Francisco Chronicle - March 11, 2006 Treading Lightly On the Land: A Modern Home Honors the Timeless Beauty of the Carmel Valley Surrounded by oak trees and covered by a sod roof, the house becomes part of the hillside on which it was built - at the same time that it provides unhindered valley views from light-filled rooms.
	Luxury Golf & Travel - March/April 2006 Top 25 Golf Communities Intimacy, community, respect for open space and California's unique Spanish architectural style are on resplendent display at Santa Lucia. Now crowding guaranteed - The Santa Lucia Conservancy manages 18,000 acres here for recreation, conservation and wildlife habitat.
	California Home & Design - March 1, 2006 Into the Woods: Contemporary, Eco-Friendly Compound in Carmel Tucked into a narrow ridge, camouflaged by a materials palette inspired by the landscape and topped with a living roof covered in wildflower beds, grasses, strawberries and succulents, the 2,900 square foot house is almost indistinguishable from its pristine surroundings in the Santa Lucia Preserve.
	Links Magazine - January/February 2006 The winding road that leads from the stone gatehouse to the clubhouse at the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel Valley is no less than eight and a half miles long, climbing through stands of centuries -old redwoods and rolling hills drenched in native grasses and wildflowers. The winding road that leads from the stone gatehouse to the clubhouse at the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel Valley is no less than eight and a half miles long, climbing through stands of centuries-old redwoods and rolling hills drenched in native grasses and wildflowers.
	Robb Report Collection - January 2006 Special Issue Home All-Stars: Inside Looking Out Santa Lucia boasts an understated atmosphere with a social scene that revolves around recreation. Hikers, bikers and equestrians can access 100 miles of trails, while golfers can hit the links of the private Tom Fazio - designed course.
	Travel + Leisure Golf - January/February 2006 America's Top 100 Golf Communities Voted #1 Santa Lucia Preserve. With an entrance gate only three miles from the sophisticated bustle of Carmel and Pebble Beach, the Santa Lucia Preserve seems like a miracle.
	HomeStyle by the Sea - Fall 2005 Lovely Land. Colorful Past Gazing across the 31 square mile expanse that is The Santa Lucia Preserve in the coastal Santa Lucia Mountains, one can imagine the West the way it once was - vast open lands, rugged yet fertile lushly forested terrain, where golden eagle and red-shouldered hawk soar overhead.
	Hors Ligne - Autumn 2005 Private. Members Only High up in California's beautiful Carmel Valley is the Santa Lucia Preserve just ten miles inland from Pebble Beach. 20,000 acres in the foothills of the Santa Lucia Mountains, the Preserve consists of two clubs: The Preserve Golf Club, with its pristine Tom Fazio championship design, is dedicated to golf, while The Ranch Club encompasses all sporting pursuits outside of golf.
	Western Interiors and Design - September/October 2005 Carmel Valley Colors: Barbara Scavullo Brings Warmth and Whimsy to a Northern California Retreat Scavullo, whose San Francisco firm is known for its vibrant interpretations of European styles, met her clients, through the project's architects. Hart Howerton, which has offices in both San Francisco and New York, conceived the 8,000 square foot house perched on a knoll surrounded by California oaks at Santa Lucia Preserve.
	Wired Magazine - January 1, 2005 Wired Home This 10,000 square foot family getaway is one of only 300 in the Santa Lucia Preserve near Carmel, California. "I want the kids to play outside," says Dad, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, explaining why there's no home theater. The Crestron automation system; however, is top-of-the-line, emailing the owners when it detects anything from a burst pipe to a security breach.
	Carmel Magazine - Holiday 2004 Tread Softly By Turning Conventional Land Use on Its Head, The Preserve Took a Risk, and Won.
	Links Magazine Best of Golf - 2004 Special Issue Links Living: Wide Open Spaces Golf communities are trending toward simpler, more natural surroundings. At California's Santa Lucia Preserve, 90% of the acreage will remain untouched.
	Robb Report Collection - July 1, 2004 Living on the Links About 3 miles inland as the crow flies from Pebble Beach's famous 18th hole, the development is set amid more than 20,000 mountainous acres of towering redwoods, thick forests, ponds, streams and mountaintop meadows.
	Golf for Women - June 1, 2004 Getting Home: Nine Dreamy Golf Communities A redwood-studded, 20,000-acre "community preserve" in the Santa Luca Foothills, three miles from Pebble Beach.
	Equestrian - June 1, 2004 Equestrian Communities The Preserve, which is about one-and-a-half times the size of Manhattan Island, is an equestrian jewel according to those that live there. Among its many landscapes include a selection of every terrain found in coastal California - open grassland, oak savannah, chaparral and coastal sage, and woodlands of oak, redwoods and pine, and wetlands.
	Cigar Aficionado - Summer 2004 Golf Getaways Now the Santa Lucia Preserve might be the ultimate development, because it doesn't seem like a development at all. Only 2,000 acres, one tenth of the total land, will be developed.
	Luxury Living - Summer 2004 Private Playgrounds: The Ultimate Places to Live and Play "This is a large landscape yet an intimate community", says Guthrie. Planned community events also incorporate the surrounding natural beauty such as a private opera and candlelight dinner amongst the Preserve's majestic redwoods.
	Robb Report: Best of the Best - June 1, 2003 Golf Communities: Santa Lucia Preserve Obviously, not many development plans begin with 20,000 pristine acres. Still, the Santa Lucia Preserve deserves kudos for creating a community that is sensitive to its history, and designed to preserve its natural beauty for generations to come.
	Coastal Living - January/February 2003 Golf Travel Planner - Special Advertising Section Only 350 home sites will ever be offered in this exclusive - 20,000 acre development, and they start at $1 million. Of the 20,000 acres, 90 percent will remain in open space forever.
	Town & Country - October 1, 2002 Wealth: Safe Havens Gazing across the 31 square mile expanse that is The Santa Lucia Preserve in the coastal Santa Lucia Mountains, one can imagine the West the way it once was - vast open lands, rugged yet fertile lushly forested terrain, where golden eagle and red-shouldered hawk soar overhead.
	Luxury Golf - December 1, 2001 Crème de Carmel Life in the Valley was never sweeter. Pebble Beach grabs all the fame and glory, but golfers considering the Monterey Peninsula for either a primary residence or a vacation home are turning their attention to the more refined private developments on the sunnier side of Highway One.
	Wall Street Journal - February 28, 2001 The Property Report: Saga of the Santa Lucia Preserve Nears a Close After Years of Battling, "Green" Housing Project Can Now Claim Success
	Luxury Golf - Tour 2000 The Last Shot: Monterey on High ... The Preserve Golf Club, a Tom Fazio design that cuts so naturally into the ridges and valleys one might imagine the course came first and the surrounding beauty sprang there from. Alas memberships are available only to the homesite buyers, whose guests cannot play unescorted.