Parking for Ospi is not mandatory valet, only if you choose to use it. You’re free to self park and I’ve been twice with no problem finding a spot. The owners of the upper village are just gross.
In other news- Jake Tapper’s media bomb on Joe Biden’s shadow puppeteers lying about his cognitive & medical conditions has so upset people- they are willing to steer a food column down the road of bumpy facts. I personally wish Pete Buttigieg, Joe’s Transportation Secretary- would have fixed the Air Traffic Controller issues- then he could cross the Country speaking about the amazing and improved systems he installed for the American public.
Why not add a FOOD BANK donation button at the end of every real estate column?
It is one of the most underutilized buildings in the Funk Zone. With those windows and loading docks on three sides, it could cater to the tourists. . . and nothing inside right now but computer routers and servers.
yeah Topper remember that lady that was practically bawling at a hearing saying the bright lights from the neon sign could cause drivers on State St to swerve and hit pedestrians
I agree with Jefferson. Banning local oil forces us to import it. California regulations at extraction facilities ensure minimal leaks, safe working conditions, and local delivery. Importing incentivizes poor extraction methods, unsafe labor standards, and excessively high carbon footprint to ship the product here.
You haven't set foot on State St in 5 years and you put the blame the hapless city council for the demise of local retail? User name certainly checks out...
Maybe just maybe it's people like you who are responsible for State St.'s demise. Local people who do not shop there, do not go there and do not nothing but complain about how it used to be better. All because they're scared. Be the change you want Karen and maybe, just maybe you can claim your name back.
Not surprised Starbucks is leaving State Street. We’ve lost all of our good stores: Saks, Nordstrom especially, RH, and most of Paseo Nuevo. Thanks to the City Council that insists on keeping the street closed, this is probably a permanent situation. I haven’t stepped into Street since 2020 and don’t plan to. There is nothing any longer there to attract shopping and there aren’t even many restaurants any longer. Very sad.
I have a sandwich board sign for my business in the Funk Zone. It works! Many many people that visit my shop tell me they saw my sign on the corner. Yes, it's tourists for the most part that don't know the area, but it really helps me get foot traffic into my space that may not have ever found me.
"...aggressive tree trimming,"
NO, NO, NO, are you kidding me? Sorry Erik but that's the attitude that is destroying the 'semi-rural character' of Montecito... as someone at MJ likes to say. Or better yet, "our rarefied enclave by the sea."
When is downtown Santa Barbara going to landscape the 1200 block of State st? Dug it up 3 weeks ago and now a dirt pit. Maybe you can help.
I'm so glad they fixed the intersection of Anacapa and Haley. I drive through there multiple times per day and either someone would turn left or go straight and just completely change lanes in the middle of the intersection when there was another car next to them. I've almost been hit so many times that I came to expect it.
how is that unfortunate? This is great news, seeing a new competitor in a more convenient location undercut prices. A big win for the customer! People downtown have very few affordable lunch options apart from the Habit (which now costs over $15 for a basic meal).
I agree! Going to REI is so convenient, but getting back home.. Argh!! The same was true of the (former) Staples parking lot.
I've been in several times now. Everything is great and the service is amazing. The chickens are particularly good and on Saturday they have freshly caught fish which is not to be missed!
If the oil companies would just clean up all the abandoned acres and acres of crap (rusty pipes well heads and other junk) spewed across the north county maybe the local government could at least get behind more onshore production. If anyone has driven up Cat Canyon, Cuyama, or other areas covered with this crap they would understand.
Need to do something about the city closing down State Street that's why Santa Barbara is losing a whole bunch of money that was the most dumbest thing that the city could have ever done! You just open it up all kind of trouble kids flying around on those e-bikes doing 35 40 miles an hour around people they don't even care in the city there's nothing about that! You close off the State Street you got so much more terrible homeless mental homeless people out there they need help they not getting it!! But yet the city got all kind of money to buy new trucks for the city new police cars new fire trucks ambulances a new police station paving the streets over there! But the worst worst thing that Santa Barbara could ever ever do to Santa Barbara was closed State Street that was the stupidest thing and the most dumbest thing that I've ever seen Santa Barbara do in my whole 60 years being here this is absolutely asinine and whoever did it she'll be fired cuz you killed Santa Barbara... Well maybe it needs to be taken care of if I already said it again I haven't said this again you need to just post it so Santa Barbara can see it.
The City DOES have an ombudsman in the Community Development Department - she should go talk to them and/or her council member. At the very least they should give her some time to find another location or close out gracefully - I can't imagine there is someone lined up to take over that space...
Sable is winning currently- has the Gaviota Beach upper area closed to work on pipeline = THE PERMITS WERE ALWAYS THERE. They always had the right to do the updating and servicing on the pipeline.
I wonder how one can snidely look down upon our one operation here in SB County, gleefully clapping to shut it and any new operations down….while posting articles where they fly across the globe to venture, by vehicle, boat and more planes made by & operating on oil pumped from ground. Which oil operation is good? The one offering the USA a yuge plane?
Buy Sable - support local!
Good point
Peak NIMBYism banning onshore oil and gas in SB County while still relying upon oil and gas for transportation, heating and the many many products petroleum based products/plastics. If this was about environmentalism they'd want drilling done in SB where they can tightly control/monitor the process and minimize the carbon footprint of it's extraction - processing - delivery by keeping things as local as possible. Instead, the faux environmentalist NIMBY's would prefer the oil they consume on a daily basis be drilled in a far off land where environmental restrictions are much more lax to non-existent (and often exploitive of the local population) then have it shipped (using even more oil) half way around the world so we can use it.
Our backyard is more important so let's do it in someone else's....
I will second and third and fourth this! Definitley time for me leadership! These bikes need to be banned and kids and adults using them should be cited and bike impounded. Unsafe and annoying!!
Can the city please cite the kids going 35 mph on e bikes on the boardwalk before they hassle restaurants about signs? We were running there last night and were consistently blasted past. Someone, probably a small child they don’t see, is gonna get really badly hurt. I don’t see a single cop - but I’m sure the $120 million police station will solve that?
I’ll say it again, time for new leadership.
No sandwich board signs? That's what needs cracking down on? The City won't stop until everyone has to use echolocation to find businesses - still bitter about the whole Institution Ale neon sign "controversy."
Maybe the short termers aren’t paying their city taxes while causing hell for neighbors. Short term renters are loud, create excess trash, and take up parking spaces. The city is not zoned for this.
Finally a solution to leaving REI and wanting to go eastbound. You had to go to the other side of State before. Can't wait for it to be finally implemented.
