Divvying up Oxnard

While they were campaigning against each other for seats on the Channel Islands Beach Community Services District three years ago, Jonathan Ziv and Keith Moore met at a local deli to talk about their ideas for the board and found they had more in common than they thought. Tony Castro in the Daily News.

"I happened to mention my vision for a new city, and he said he'd been thinking about the same thing," Ziv said. "We hit it off from there."

Three years later, Ziv and Moore are the driving force behind a proposal to effectively split Oxnard - Ventura County's most populous city - by creating a separate city called Channel Islands Beach that would include high-priced homes on the sand but also low-income south Oxnard neighborhoods.