JUST LISTED: ARE YOU READY TO PARTY, BUTTERFLY BEACH?
After an L.A.-style facelift, the sweet little house of yore on Channel Drive is all grown up and ready to get down. Check out that bar….
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ODDS & ENDS
••• The Municipal Tennis Center has reopened.
••• Intruder spending the night at vacant houses.
••• Ortega Park is getting a renovation.
••• Showers of Blessing lets homeless people shower in its trailer.
••• The grunion were running.
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FOOD STUFF
••• Lease signed on Endless Summer and Chuck’s spaces at the Harbor.
••• One outpost of the Nugget has reopened, with another to follow.
••• Los Alamos restaurants teaming up for deliveries here.
••• Local seafood update.
••• Fresno chili sauce (above), bake-at-home cookies, and happy hour takeout margaritas.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• New testing sites are an important step toward reopening.
••• Law firm offers $25 reimbursements to anyone placing local restaurant order.
••• Interviews with city administrator Paul Casey and Direct Relief’s Thomas Tighe.
••• Field + Fort’s new showroom space.
••• Viva Oliva moved from Coast Village Road.
••• Los Padres facilities now closed through at least May 15.
••• $39 million high school stadium nearly done.
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PRICE CUTS
The week’s top price reductions: Lavish space for outdoor entertaining in Cielito; serious price-chop for Las Alturas architectural exotica; three-story Mediterranean on the Lower Riviera; time capsule above San Roque; flat two-acre lot in Montecito.
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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