JUST LISTED
A semicircular ode to wood in Mission Canyon: Television producer Jan DeWitt is selling the house he built in the 1980s with a redwood exterior and all kinds of wood on the inside, including floorboards reclaimed from a San Francisco pier. Take a look around.
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NEWS DIGEST (PART 1)
••• One asymptomatic man is being held under quarantine at Point Mugu.
••• Parents argue for and against the new sex-education curriculum.
••• Test-driving trapeze school.
••• Progress on debris flow basin improvements.
••• Naked guy showering with a garden hose.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• The Apple store is now collecting visitors’ images.
••• New Lotusland exhibit about founder Ganna Walska (above).
••• Oceanfront property sells for well under the initial ask.
••• Amazon’s State Street building is on the market for $38 million.
••• You know you’re in California when….
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PRICE CUTS
The week’s top price reductions: “Country Mediterranean” Estate (↓$1M), newly staged Neoclassical in the Hedgerow (↓$255K), clean 70s interiors on the Riviera (↓$200K), ambitious spec renovation on Picacho Lane (↓$1.3M), and a pink palace atop Hidden Valley Lane (↓$955K).
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NEWS DIGEST (PART 2)
••• Universities expanding into downtown Santa Barbara.
••• Santa Barbara Airport noise complaints are up.
••• Notable shipwrecks around the Channel Islands.
••• A maddening Montecito intersection (above).
••• Carp residents file class-action lawsuit against cannabis farms.
••• Republican Assembly candidate Charles Cole.
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Recent Comments
They can't even get the metro link linked! — Christine!A
Exactly this. I haven't heard any realistic alternatives yet. — BrR
The land is privately owned and zoned for development. What operates on it today exists at the discretion of the owners, and that can change… — BrR
Those tract homes are tacky and not good enough for precious Carpinteria. Carp deserves much better than those eye sores. — KK
It’s not vacant parcel: it’s a beautiful co-op organic farm, Farm Cart Organics, that feeds our community, and a farm school, Carpinteria Children’s Farm, and… — Sarah
Respectfully, there was never a version of development on this site that Carpinteria was going to welcome with open arms. That's the problem. Even if… — EM
My comment on your post here last June: https://www.sitelinesb.com/nearly-200-housing-units-proposed-for-the-carpinteria-bluffs/ “the developer is saying it’ll use the density bonus to accommodate the housing instead—and retain the… — SkyG
I’d definitely prefer a hotel with restaurant, farm, grounds, etc. than Orange County tract homes. — BW
For anyone curious, the "farm resort" initially proposed—and intensely resisted by Carpinteria residents—is described in this post: https://www.sitelinesb.com/99-room-farm-resort-proposed-for-the-carpinteria-bluffs/ — Erik Torkells
The state is going to force housing on communities that don't plan for it. Carpinteria can either shape what gets built here or wait for… — BrR