FOOD STUFF
••• Opening date for Que at the Santa Barbara Public Market (above).
••• Update on El Encanto’s plan for a pergola with retractable roof.
••• New Summerland café.
••• Breakfast burrito pop-up at Na Na Thai.
••• Merci’s chicken pot pie.
••• Rentable raclette grills.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Slick compound at the top of Picacho Lane for $28 million; Park Lane Mediterranean; vacant lot on Valley Club Road; another polo PUD model home; TV Hill floops; renovated 1913 Craftsman in the Upper East; Hidden Valley outlier; El Caserio mini-compound; the roofline of the year; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Two more new fitness studios.
••• Veronica Beard is open on Coast Village Road (above).
••• Firsthand report from a friend whose house was burgled.
••• The inaugural Santa Barbara Literary Festival will be this spring.
••• The Los Patos Bridge interpretive display.
••• Train and Barenaked Ladies to play the Santa Barbara Bowl.
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Recent Comments
They can't even get the metro link linked! — Christine!A
Exactly this. I haven't heard any realistic alternatives yet. — BrR
The land is privately owned and zoned for development. What operates on it today exists at the discretion of the owners, and that can change… — BrR
Those tract homes are tacky and not good enough for precious Carpinteria. Carp deserves much better than those eye sores. — KK
It’s not vacant parcel: it’s a beautiful co-op organic farm, Farm Cart Organics, that feeds our community, and a farm school, Carpinteria Children’s Farm, and… — Sarah
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