Other recent news: Carpinteria warms up a bit to ADUs; moratorium on new water hookups continues in the Goleta Valley; Olive Street duplex approved; conversations with Philip Glass, Elizabeth Strout, and others; microscopic plastics.
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Plus: What might be the best parquet floor ever; design workshop for the Randall Road Debris Basin Project; bucolic artwork at Sullivan Goss; “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” on the big screen.
Near the end of a quiet street, with the bulk of the yard tucked behind, the 1949 house feels like a world of its own—and yet it’s walkable to Coast Village Road.
Other food news: Thirteen farms in Santa Barbara County will open for the day on Saturday; beer-and-barbecue festival this weekend; apple honey challah for Rosh Hashanah.
In other recent news: Montecito roundabouts get more funding; 41 new units of low-income senior rental housing on Garden Street; neighbors oppose Olive Street duplex plan; assemblymember Monique Limón is running for state senate.
And in other food news: Eater LA updated its questionable list of best Santa Barbara restaurants; chef turnover at the Four Seasons Biltmore; Café Ana has a new baker; Vicenta’s in Goleta has closed.
Also newly reduced: Midcentury Mesa home near the Douglas Family Preserve; Eighties-style manor on Pepper Hill; Craftsman house used as a film set; the terrific house across from the Mission.
Five newly listed properties that don’t quite warrant posts of their own, including the largest property in Birnam Wood; a redone ranch house in Hope Ranch; a Montecito white box on a nice piece of land; and a Mesa mystery.
Burning Questions
- 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?
- When Will the Coast Village Road Medians Be Completed?
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