JUST LISTED
This week’s notable new listings include a California ranch house done right; terrific old houses in the Upper East and on Equestrian Avenue, a miniature compound (above), a sweet farmhouse, a Mesa Cape Cod with a funky roofline, and more.
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NEWS ROUNDUP 9/29
••• Santa Barbara County has entered the next reopening tier, allowing restaurants, gyms, and more to operate indoors at limited capacity.
••• A small plane crashed into the ocean off Isla Vista.
••• New efforts to get college students to behave appropriately during the pandemic.
••• Update on Highway 101 wildlife crossing.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Forest closure extended yet again.
••• New York City home store opening in Montecito.
••• Governor Newsom signed the bill banning many rat poisons.
••• 30 new electric-vehicle charging stations at a downtown garage.
••• Grants for small businesses coping with Covid-19.
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PRICE CUTS
With just one notable upward price adjustment, and the rest down, the real estate market appears to one settling back into a sort of normality.
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NEWS ROUNDUP 10/1
••• Indio Muerto Street is finally being renamed.
••• Santa Barbara will replace parking kiosk workers with technology.
••• The Apple store has reopened.
••• Complaints about the redistricting commission.
••• Cannabis grower agrees to work with community group.
••• Cannabis storefront applications.
••• Actor Ron Ely filed a wrongful-death lawsuit.
••• Courthouse arch restoration.
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