ODDS & ENDS
••• First look at the plan for Montecito’s Dorinda Triangle.
••• The hotel in the works on lower De La Vina has been turned Spanish.
••• The Ojai Film Festival is coming up.
••• A second debris basin is proposed for Montecito.
••• Ghost Village Road update.
••• What you’ll find inside Santa Barbara Hives’s new San Roque shop.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Campanil midcentury for $10 million; San Roque three-bedroom with ADU for $3.65 million; Montecito Mediterranean; Alta Mesa fixer with views; 1926 bungalow on Chapala; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• New state law bans parking minimums for new developments.
••• Hollister Avenue in Old Town Goleta will become two lanes with back-in angled parking.
••• The Yes Store opens this week.
••• Santa Barbara is monitoring sewage for Covid.
••• Removal of Haskell’s Beach oil piers is on track.
••• Bad day for a Tesla owner (photo by Jason Paluska).
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