Other recent news: Carpinteria residents oppose the plan for a new hotel on Linden Avenue; Santa Barbara County wants visitors and residents who have been out of town to quarantine for two weeks; serious upgrades at two high schools.
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Including at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Dylan Star’s parking lot, and the Dart Coffee Garden. Plus: Santa Claus Lane overhaul appears delayed; possible subdivision of 12.77-acre Montecito property; a maskless man’s contrition.
More food news: Venus in Furs has changed up its menu and now offers Barb’s pizza seven days a week; half off subscriptions from Coastal Coffee Collective; Italian panettone at Aperitivo; two cookies worth seeking out.
The week’s notable sales also included a fabulous 1913 Craftsman in the Upper East, Tuscan pastiche on Hidden Valley Lane, two houses on Whitney Avenue in Summerland, and more.
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The best restaurant on the Central Coast announced the chef of its forthcoming establishment and let slip that it’s trying to grown into a “compound” by taking over the vacant lot next door.
Other recent news: The buyers of houses by Barton Myers and George Washington Smith; Nesbitt mansion yanked from the auction block; progress for the Randall Road Debris Basin; new retail planned for Summerland; congressional candidate Andy Caldwell thinks he actually won.
The week’s other top price adjustments: a project on the far side of Toro Canyon, 5,000-square-foot house in Glen Oaks going for a Covid bump, and a three-bedroom in Hitchcock Ranch.
Noteworthy new listings also include one of the nicest houses in Birnam Wood, a penthouse in Jeff Shelton’s El Andaluz building, Picacho Lane hoping for eight figures, and a trio of Hope Ranch properties.
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Burning Questions
- Why Are the Railroad Tracks Being Expanded Along Padaro Lane?
- Will You Explain the Plan to Adapt the Waterfront for Climate Change?
- Why Did the Rosewood Miramar Beach Install Gates?
- How Long Will This Big Pipe Be at East Beach?
- Is Cabrillo Boulevard Going to Be Widened Under Highway 101?
- Was There a Fisherman Inn in Downtown Santa Barbara?
- What Are Those Old Buildings at the Corner of Castillo and Montecito Streets?
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