Del Playa Drive

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Del Playa Drive (also known as D.P.) is a street in Isla Vista, California that overlooks the ocean. The street stretches over the full length of the unincorporated city (about one mile). It is the heart of the University of California, Santa Barbara "party scene".

Parties ranging in size from a few people to several hundred people occur, and can be the scene of alcohol intoxication, underage drinking, and recreational drug use. The Isla Vista Foot Patrol, the local police, patrol the street on foot and bicycle to keep the peace and enforce the rule of law.

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Del Playa Drive has also been the source of housing controversy, as some of the apartment buildings are falling off of the rapidly eroding cliffs. Recently, however, steps have been taken to slow the erosion by reinforcing the cliffs with imported rock, concrete and other artificial support structures, and by redirecting water runoff through the cliffs, rather than over them as it would flow naturally. ^[1]

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