EXCLUSIVE
Nearly 200 housing units are being proposed for the Carpinteria Bluffs. The previous plan for a hotel and regenerative farm, despised by locals, is starting to look pretty good.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: 1932 Reginald Johnson in the Golden Quadrangle for $10.25 million; Birnam Wood contemporary; 1925 Riviera Tudor by Winsor Soule; Cape Cod five-bedroom next to the Hope Ranch tennis courts; one of Lutah Maria Riggs’s lesser works; 1928 floops in Hope Ranch; 1940 Mediterranean on the Lower Riviera; Upper East off-market; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• A music festival at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club.
••• Two new boutiques selling women’s apparel.
••• Mācher’s Linden Square shop opens this week.
••• Another development site in the Haley Street Corridor?
••• The state of the Tesla chargers at the Miramar resort.
••• New local streaming radio station.
••• Awkward typography on the San Ysidro Road off-ramp sign.
••• ZZ Top to play the Santa Barbara Bowl.
••• Pronouncing “jacaranda” (above).
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