Newsletter: May 3

ODDS & ENDS
••• The Picklr opened this weekend.
••• New art-and-antiques shop at La Arcada (above).
••• Ten streets that Santa Barbara wants to make friendlier to cyclists and pedestrians.
••• Christopher Noxon show in Ojai.
••• Another vacation rental–style “hotel” debuts soon.
••• Superior Court Judge Thomas Adams still isn’t retiring.
••• Siteline performance review on Reddit.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Big and brand new just outside the Lower Village; spiffer-upper in Birnam Wood; 1940s charm northeast of the Alameda Padre Serra roundabout; 1918 Craftsman fixer in the Bungalow Haven neighborhood; and a horse lover’s paradise.

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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• The State Street plan is moving forward (above).
••• San Ysidro Ranch finally acknowledged that it has been working on a botanical garden.
••• Another candidate for Kristen Sneddon’s seat on the city council.
••• The race for county auditor-controller.
••• Return of by-the-wind sailors.
••• Chabad of Santa Barbara’s new 7,400-square-foot building approved.
••• SpaceX’s lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission was settled.
••• Tree of the month.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
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