Sam, just chuck the mailings in the recycling bin…
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Are you confused on what Solvang is? It is a wonderful place to stop for a coffee & a sweet, stay longer if you choose. It’s grown into a lovely place to spend a few days exploring the SYV and beyond.
I have no idea who Cristal is, but I too hate the endless real estate, living will, tree care mailbox stuffs. Enough!
Ban real estate mailings! Cristal Clarke mails us one of her self promotional mailings at least 4 times a week. Probably 200 mailings a year. They go right into the trash and assure that we will NEVER use or recommend her services for anything to anyone. She is an enourmous litterbug. Maybe the biggest in town. What a tremendous waste of resources and energy.
Hope you're reading this Cristal. It's time for you to retire this practice and maybe think about retiring yourself as well. What a stain you've left on the community in pursuit of your own self interests. Millions of these trashy mailings litter the landfill because of you. Do better.
Or, crazy idea here, we just enforce our existing laws on parking in the red, jaywalking, and offsite signage rather than create even more laws banning a perfectly legal activity occurring on private property to try and prevent activities that are already illegal.
Sant Barbara should ban “Open House” signs. Realtors park in the red and aimlessly cross the street to put their signs. Plus houses are no longer open. You’ve to sign a contract with the realtor just to view the house.
loved alma fonda fina, especially their ceviche! the fresh fish perfectly marinating in the delicious pool of coconut passion fruit infusion transported us on a mini sensory vacation to a tropical island and the chips they serve with the ceviche is da bomb! the tuna tostada, omg,..
we love this latest culinary project by chef ramone & chef alan & as with all of his other restaurants, this one is distinctly delightfully different! friendly service & staff (we love brandon) this was a wonderful treat! gracias!
Since the bill passed the Assembly 71-0 and the Senate 36-0, they can just override the veto. Problem solved.
I hear what you are saying, but just head south to Ventura and you'll see what a town looks like when the ABR lets ANYTHING go through. Touring towns in Spain and Italy you find more harmonious construction. I think that is what they are trying to achieve here. After all, we are considered part of the California Riviera!
+1 to this!! We discovered Masala Spice after my wife started working in Goleta, and it's our go-to Indian restaurant now. Glad to see them expanding, and it'll be nice to have a location in SB proper.
If you follow this logic far enough, you end up with downtown Solvang - a theme park for tourists. Apologies if I think that's not what I want from the city I live in. I took some of my visiting family to Solvang once, my cousin looked around, paused for a moment and said "wow, I guess this is what you get when you build a downtown strictly for tourism." My point that I made before and I'll make again - I am all for the preservation of historic structures. There's a difference between historic preservation and the creation of theme park for the sake of tourism.
I am a developer, owner and operator of numerous multifamily properties some of which are in downtown Santa Barbara. The cost alone to build these properties will not be recouped in my lifetime. The insurance cost are out of control with increases from 30% - over 100% (I have one property were the insurance has increased over 200%) This is for standard building insurance and does not include Earthquake which is added on top. The maintenance cost have increased, property, taxes, etc. Rent control will bring an end to development in SB which the city needs to stay alive. All of the Empty commercial space downtown and businesses closing should be an indicator that more money (and people) are needed to keep this great city alive.
Re Spanish architecture, this is what Pearl Chase envisioned. Its ubiquity is what gives a cohesive appearance to SB. This is the look of SB and is why tourists want to come here. Visit the downtown areas of other communities and contemplate why their aesthetic is unappealing.
Do readers believe that this housing will be occupied in large part by existing SB residents in need of housing? My opinion is that high income SB residents already have housing. These types of developments will attract high income residents from outside the area putting further demand on SB housing stock.
Thanx to JD Vance, Happy Cat Eats may want to rethink their name. 🧐 (just sayin')
So happy to have Masala Spice coming to the Mesa!❤️
On the 700 block of Chapala, across from Sachi Ramen. Orange Theory Fitness.
Yes, most of the vendors seemed to be on the Carrillo part of new market and state st stands were oddly spaced and not very busy. Northern block of State had to contend with a few restaurants parklets. But all good. Just need to figure out best and closest place to park so lugging all my produce and fruit isn’t too difficult.
The project to widen freeway 101 must go into Guinness Book of Records as the Caltrans project that has taken longer to complete from beginning to end. I lived in China and they would have completed this entire project in under two years. What the state does not take into consideration is the negative impact the delays in this project have had on commerce and ordinary people's lives. Clearly, time is not of the essence.
Rather than mention Newsom's environmental virtue signaling with grocery store plastic bag ban (which ignores the massive amounts of plastic wrapped foods and products and bags from other stores), more significant to Californian's was his veto of a bi-partisan bill to audit the tens of billions of dollars being spent on homelessness in the state, which currently is loosely accounted for and results not tracked.
“This was a bipartisan bill with no opposition,” said Assemblyman Patterson on Monday. “Clearly the Legislature agreed on the need to rein in Newsom’s wasteful spending on ineffective homelessness programs. I’m glad we were able to get some safeguards written into the budget, but the state can’t keep cutting corners on accountability when dishing out billions of taxpayer dollars and seeing the problem get worse.”
“An unnecessary ongoing workload? Really? For more transparency?,” questioned Maria Columbo, a homeless program advisor to the Globe on Monday. “We need laws like this to make sure every dollar is being spent right, and not just thrown into programs that don’t help. Based on what he has done, it’s not redundant either. This is only going to cause a lot of problems for a lot of people.”
https://californiaglobe.com/fr/newsom-vetoes-bill-to-give-annual-report-on-homeless-program/
The food is good but the prices are insane. Where do we take our families in the new bling infested
Montecito? Answer: not in Montecito. Bird refuge would be a decent place for a family priced/considered restaurant..
That was quite the unusual essay on the exhibitionist.
To be clear, I think very high standards should be held for the downtown core and the beach area. Take for example 5-over-1's, which seem to be the herpes of the developer world. I don't think this style should be let anywhere near Santa Barbara, and I'd fight against it tooth and nail. They looked ugly and dated when they first showed up 20 years ago, and only look worse since. As an example of a way forward - I personally really like most of the Linden Ave project in Carp. It clearly takes some old elements, and adds a modern twist to them. It feels....coastal? Modern, yet with some vintage lines.
So much of this comes down to financial realities - part of why I think modern "Spanish Revival" looks so cheap is that it's trying to mimic a style from when labor and materials were vastly cheaper than they are today. I think good architecture is forward looking. It takes the realities of the current economics of building structures, and finds ways of creating something beautiful within those constraints. That should be the goal at least!
Back to the issue....the current restroom is not ADA compliant for a restaurant at White Caps.
