FOOD STUFF
••• Yetz’s Bagels is opening another shop (above).
••• A second impression of Alma Fonda Fina.
••• More on the forthcoming Mesa sandwich shop.
••• Loubud Wines tasting room has opened.
••• Progress for the wine-country marketing tax.
••• Mercado El Rey is coming to Milpas.
••• Bell’s tomato risotto recipe.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Goleta is reducing speed limits on most major streets.
••• Problematic oil pipeline may get reactivated.
••• El Capitán State Beach campgrounds to be off-limits for a year (above).
••• Another local judge is in hot water.
••• Sandpiper Golf Club claims it may have to close.
••• Beach Baby Kids Boutique is closing.
••• The tree of the month.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
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Recent Comments
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
Genuinely curious what outcome you'd prefer. The land is privately owned and zoned for development. If not this, then what? Leaving it vacant forever isn't… — EM
The big black pipe has never bothered me. Maybe because I've loved the SB harbor since the first time I saw it, that was the… — Dan O.
Fully agree! I thought the hotel/farm/housing concept was a much better fit for that land. But when people oppose everything, something eventually gets crammed through. — SkyG
Hotel concept was better than this — JB
Bit of trivia about Trinity Church (at State and Micheltorena): Richard Diebenkorn, the abstract expressionist painter, was married there, in 1943 I think. — patrick