
GET OUT OF TOWN
With five million people living in the Phoenix metropolitan area, there has to be something interesting to do—besides play golf or lie by a pool—for a few days, right?
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Traditional gem in the Golden Quadrangle; spare renovation on School House Lane; foothill hacienda; dark, shingled, and woodsy on Eucalyptus Hill; spec reno at the heart of the San Roque spiderweb; two Montecito condos; and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Longstanding Carpinteria surf shop to close (above).
••• Santa Barbara considers disincentivizing landlords to renovate.
••• Teacher layoffs by the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
••• County to increase oversight of battery storage systems.
••• “Restraining Order Violation” in Montecito.
••• More studies of noise impacts of space launches.
••• Cannabis farms required to install carbon scrubbers.
••• Lawsuit by residents affected by cannabis stench granted class-action status.
••• Cannabis farm goes bankrupt.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
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Recent Comments
Great 🥝 🇳🇿 travel reportage Eric ! Love all your details as well as extensive photos ! — Mark
So wonderful to have this new shop there in the El Paseo. Hand crafted ceramics, plants both real and dried, art, books, candles, decorative glassware,… — Miguel
Sad to see McCormick House close up shop to sell off. I've taken a few wonderful art classes there over the years. It is such… — JD
It is absurd. — Laurie
Exactly! I have no words for anyone that could even think of approving such a design and In Buellton of all places. Ed St George… — Monica
Alessia Patisserie & Café, 134 E Canon Perdido Street, Entry mat — Tal
PS- the generated photo previously used was more hidious though — Christine!
If you read the city paperwork- they describe the current Pea Soup design as “art deco”. I don’t think what they think is our deco… — Christine!
Come again? — J
Actually- the Art Deco style they speak of.... is what the current building is described as. — Christine!