BURNING QUESTIONS
Why is Hermosillo Road so wide? What’s up with this vacant lot in the Funk Zone? What’s happening with this plaque at Chase Palm Park? Who made these tile benches? And is that a Minotaur sculpture near the freeway? The answers.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Another new contemporary on Olive Mill Road; Toro Canyon farmhouse with beautiful barn; 1950s ranch house in the Lower Village; sweet bones on Glendessary Lane; Eucalyptus Hill fixer with views; 1970s Las Alturas project; and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Santa Barbara backs away from license plate cameras.
••• Tracking down people who might’ve been exposed to measles.
••• Cox Communications was sold.
••• Isla Vista bluff memorial in the works.
••• Fundraising for repairs to Carpinteria’s public swimming pool.
••• Update on the Sheriff’s Office overtime fiasco.
••• National Forest land at risk of paving and logging.
••• The Paseo Nuevo peacock mosaics.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
Know where this was shot? Prove it in the comments.
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