••• For you pickleball fans: Shannon Gaston of Crushcakes and her partner “have opened a little pickleball social club” called Crush Courts. “We are hoping to build a community of people who love playing pickleball and enjoy eating delicious food! We have two pickleball courts, which will be available to rent for private play as well as have parties and events with food catered by Crushcakes. We also have two pros available for private lessons and clinics.”
••• An outpost of Frenchies Modern Nail Care is opening near Farmer Boy in San Roque, reports commercial real estate agent Caitlin Hensel. It’s operated by the same folks who own the franchise in Ventura.
••• Le Garage 805 will be held at 220 W. Canon Perdido Street #B from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on February 8 and 9. The event is “bringing independent boutiques and local vendors together in one space,” and “every rack is a sales rack. Shop local tastemakers’ signature selections and excess inventory at unbeatable prices.” Participants include Shopkeepers, Hammies, Catherine Gee, Office of Angela Scott, Dylan Star, Waxing Poetic, House Rupert, and The Story. And “each vendor will be donating a portion of their proceeds to LA’s Go Fund Me’s that are less than 50% funded.” Moreover, there will be a “large section of donated, gently used (some new) clothing in which all the proceeds will go to these Go Fund Me’s. This will include women’s, men’s, and kids’ clothing and accessories.”
••• According to the Architectural Board of Review’s February 3 agenda, a “book bench” will be installed in front of the Franklin Neighborhood Center, near the Eastside Library. It will look like this one, except it’ll be “hand-painted based on original artwork.”
••• The February 6 meeting of the Montecito Board of Architectural Review includes a slate of improvements at Birnam Wood Golf Club:
—Increase membership from 800 to 804;
—Renovate existing gym and an addition of 2,441 square feet;
—Demolish 1,410-square-foot pro‐shop [and] construct new 3,100-square-foot golf and tennis pro‐shop;
—Demolish 593-square-foot pool [and] construct new 1996-square-foot pool, 129-square-foot spa, and a 779-square-foot pool house containing restrooms;
—Construct a new 877-square-foot snack bar;
—Construct 3 new cottages (3,751 square feet total);
—Remove approximately 345 feet of driving range netting and fence [and] replace approximately 476 feet of 6‐foot tall driving range fence with 20‐foot tall netting;
—Reconfigure parking lots and add 43 new spaces for a total of 205 spaces;
—Relocate an existing easement associated with Packing House Road;
—Landscape and hardscape improvements.
••• “This is not your typical type of question but no one I talk to knows the answer and my messages to the city tax collector go unanswered,” emailed E. “How are property taxes allocated when a house is part of more than one school district? For instance, if your house is in Montecito and its schools are Cold Spring, Santa Barbara Junior High, and Santa Barbara High School, what portion of your property taxes goes to the Cold Spring School District and what portion goes to the SBUSD?” It’s a worthy question, but I’ve never been able to get info from the county tax assessor, and I suspect the city will be the same. Before I try, does anyone have any advice—or even happen to know? (And I’ve long sought the county’s annual property tax revenue, starting in 2019.)
UPDATE: “I did some more digging and don’t know exactly how it’s calculated, but I figured out how you find it for where things go for a specific address,” reports E. “You can look it up here. Just looking at a few addresses in different districts, here are the percentages I saw that were paid into SBUSD from their 1% property tax:
All SBUSD – 40%
Goleta/SBUSD – 13-15%
Montecito Union or Cold Spring/SBUSD – 17-18%
Hope/SBUSD – 17%
This also has a breakdown of how much in taxes went to school districts overall and how that was broken up between districts.”
••• “While walking along State Street, I noticed this fun little vacuum being tested and closely monitored by city employees,” emailed C. “It struck me as Siteline appropriate!” I won’t disagree—and I love that it’s called Glutton.

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As an ex-SBUSD trustee, I’m happy to chime in on the property tax division between the elementary feeder districts and SB Unified. You can see what overall property taxes are collected and where they go every year at the auditor-controller’s property tax highlights pdf link: https://www.countyofsb.org/316/Property-Tax. It doesn’t include the formulas, though, and the elementary/secondary division is based on historical practices and old and new state school funding laws. It would probably take an archivist and accountant to get to the original whys. It was a little easier to see in our accounting before Santa Barbara became a unified district in 2011 instead of an elementary and secondary district governed by one board. At that time, the elementary districts received a greater percentage of the property taxes in a given district boundary–perhaps because they are historically K-8 districts even though they’ve never served students above 6th grade? I don’t know. If you get an accommodating employee at the auditor-controller’s office, they’ll be able to tell you the percentage that goes to each district overall and then apply that formula to your home’s property tax.
It seems like Goleta contributes a smaller portion of their taxes to SBUSD than those in other areas that have their own elementary school districts. Any idea why that would be?
Oh my gosh, I just realized they haven’t updated their pdf highlights since 2019!! No wonder you’re frustrated! That information is a matter of public record, and I’m sure something similar to that document is created every year. You may need to make a public records act request.
The Glutton looks like the perfect part time job for a hobo/homeless resident- similar to a scooter or bike you pick up & leave where you want! Keep them moving and cleaning at the same time! Brilliant
Unlike her restaurants, will the Pickleball social club be inclusive for everyone?
Seriously – A Big NO for me on that pickleball club.
Where are the pickleball courts located? Interested as it looks like a residential neighborhood and the website doesn’t specify anywhere.
Me thinks it is clearly in a residential neighborhood, and unless that monstrocity behind the court is their house, I predict a swift shut-down of this operation. And being a non pickleball player, is it traditional to have the courts line up end to end? I would think the ball coming into the game from behind would make a short-fused player implode?
Ryan, out of curiosity – who is denied from or otherwise unable to visit Crushcakes?
County email going unanswered? What has worked for me in the past is to cc your District Supervisor. You should not have to do that especially with questions about property taxes!
It would be nice if the city would keep clean the walkway between State Street and Dollar Store’s parking lot. They seem to ignore that block down through Gutierrez Street. Perhaps the new, upcoming UCSB presence will bring attention to this matter.