Stucco repair costs in Santa Maria

Down the coast, Santa Barbara made stucco a civic style. The city began a push in 1917 to honor its Spanish Colonial Revival style. After a major earthquake struck in 1925, much of State Street was rebuilt in that style, the American Planning Association notes, and in 1960 the city created its El Pueblo Viejo Landmark District around State Street. In 1977 it added a historic structures chapter to its code and began designating landmarks.

Up in Santa Maria, the houses tell a newer story. The 1960s were the metro's biggest building decade, Census estimates show, with about one in five of today's homes, and half were built in 1975 or earlier. In the city of Santa Maria, about one in five homes is from 2000 or later.

The weather is easy on all of it. At the Santa Maria airport, average highs stay between about 63 and 74 degrees all year, and average lows never drop below about 39, the Western Regional Climate Center's records show. About 11 of the year's 13 inches of rain fall from November through March, and summer is nearly dry.