GET OUT OF TOWN
The Dolomites are a prime example of how certain destinations appear to become wildly popular overnight. But don’t let that discourage you: our self-guided hiking trip from hotel to hotel was one of the best trips we’ve ever taken. Plus: Milan for the first time, and testing out an all-business-class airline.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Hope Ranch fixer floopsed for $800,000 loss; off-market Montecito charmer; 1998 six-bedroom in Hope Ranch; Via Clarice for a loss; West Mesa spec reno for nearly $4.4 million; floopses of a Las Alturas project and a Riviera mini-compound; 40-acre avocado farm in Casitas Pass; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Montecito is getting a public pickleball court (above).
••• Landscape designs for the Coast Village Road medians.
••• New gym in the Funk Zone.
••• One hundred trees to be removed for the reconfiguration of the Los Patos Way off-ramp.
••• Vandenberg Space Force Base’s launch alerts are no longer useful.
••• How to opt out of receiving the Yellow Pages.
••• Rainbow Kitten Surprise returns to the Santa Barbara Bowl.
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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