Newsletter: March 22

ODDS & ENDS
••• The return of the two-hotel Funk Zone development (above).
••• The Biltmore is reducing its number of guest rooms.
••• Hozier to play the Bowl.
••• A visit to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s fun Backcountry area.
••• Presale memberships to the Pad climbing gym.
••• The Santa Barbara Surf Film Festival will include a block party.
••• Answer to last week’s “Where in Santa Barbara…?”
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Ellen DeGeneres’s and Portia de Rossi’s Hedgerow cottage; sexy/quirky spec reno in the Upper Village; off-market Middle Road house; 1931 Alex D’Alfonso on De La Guerra Terrace; Mesa fixer; Montecito Shores pocket listing; and more. See what sold—and for how much.

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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• The county’s cannabis situation continues to stink in new ways.
••• Santa Barbara Airport is working on a terminal expansion and more parking.
••• Solvang lost $538,000 to phishing.
••• Butterfly Beach water closure due to sewage spill.
••• The recent buyer of Oprah Winfrey’s Hedgerow property.
••• The Grace Fisher Foundation Inclusive Arts Clubhouse has opened.
••• New pickleball shop.
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