So excited. Will bring lots of folks downtown when other downtowns are struggling and closing down
Yummy!! The Smash Burgers at Third Window Brewing are the best!! Also excited Bettina & Corazón Cocina opening in Carpinteria too!!
smells like gentrification
Could not agree more. The HLC is increasingly of the mind that old = historic. My favorite is the median on Upper State that they recently designated a historic resource. It's literally a median with a ground cover and palms. Two plantings. To hear them tell it, it's the Lotusland of medians, a precious treasure that must be protected. It' a median. Yes, it's been there for a long time, but so has the street. I roll my eyes every time I drive past.
Indeed I did. Thanks.
I think you meant Crush Bar at 1129A State St
I agree. The spirit is to keep things looking beautiful but sometimes, when it comes to safety, function has to win.
Classic HLC useless input.
Considering our Mayor is a restauranteur who has a consistent history of opposing new forms of outdoor dining, the malice is starting to seem obvious. From banning food trucks, to his constant war on state street promenade and parkets (even ones in private parking lots), he’s hell bent on restricting where we can eat outdoors and which restaurants can benefit from outdoor dining in this lovely city. It’s very very strange how obsessed he is with this, and how disconnected his position is with the public’s enjoyment of food trucks, the promenade, etc
I like them. They are beautiful and enhance any dining experience.
A part that would fan out from the stairs to the ground.
What is a staircase apron?
Hey, I was motivated by your walk through Old Town, and your mention of my history website :)
So I have found some info about the constable that used to hang out in the sushi house.
https://goletahistory.com/old-town-goleta-comparison-2/
Thanks
Here's a comment that Lab Social posted on Instagram when someone made a similar point to yours: "There was a city council meeting on 10/10 (which we attended) where the vote to extend the use of Parklets into the new year pending a city issued pre-application process (which now other Parklet owners have). We received notice our parklets would not be allowed to apply through the notice on our Parklet 12/18. Apparently there were subsequent city council meetings where guidelines were established. (We were not aware of these). No announcements or notices were given to us until 12/18. All we ask is for ample time."
The ERETO ordinance, which temporarily allowed parklets in certain locations, including CVR, was extended multiple times over 3 years. The termination date of 12/31/2023 had been in place for over a year. Council voted to extract State Streets parklets to their a standalone ordinance, and extended leaving the others to expire 12/31. Was not an overnight decision. Daisy also knew they had to move, bit the date was never set in advance
Ouch! You can make your point without castigating others.
I usually attribute City actions to either incompetence or ignorance, but after the Daisy got a notice over Thanksgiving and the Haley Street notices issued over Christmas it's starting to look malicious.
No excuse other than they are fun and people enjoy them. Are people really that worried that they might have to walk an extra block or two. Save outdoor dining!
They are all ugly and useless- want to eat outdoors? We have many, many outdoor venues
All the parklets look trashy it’s like we are in Lompoc or Oxnard and not Santa Barbara.
They aren't all ugly. You sound snooty.
Made it to Azul and I highly recommend. Great service and delicious, interesting food. We had the pork shank and short ribs, two standards with a Mexican flair. Go and enjoy. You are right, the courtyard/patio is as pretty as ever.
Cafe Petra looks dreamy. So many good restaurants have come and gone on that block of Cota, hope it works out for them.
I would absolutely love to live in a Quonset hut. Hope others around town are similarly preserved.
Where to start with that delusional fever dream of a letter from Gary Friedman… Countdown to implosion and insolvency. I give it 10 years. Far from being arbiters of style, they seem to have simply figured out how to capture hearty margins on large-format contract-grade furniture that takes its design cues (or rips them off if we’re being honest) from influencer aesthetics of 10 years ago. The current iteration of RH’s look is straight off of beige girl Instagram from 2017. Many of their pieces of furniture are also near plagiarisms of mid-centuria sold to people who don’t know they could just buy the real thing because they don’t know what the real thing is. There will always be wealthy people who lack any personality of their own and need to furnish a home overnight. RH is perfect for them. The company was handed the opportunity for international expansion simply by way of fortune - not by their own doing. The great leveling of aesthetics via social media and the internet from regional or culturally specific looks to one bland global style has benefitted RH, but they just got lucky with that. I wonder if Friedman actually gets that and just can’t say it out loud (in which case I’d then say he’s a good businessman) or if he actually drank his own champagne-flavored kool aid. Hard to say. Building a real estate portfolio isn’t a bad idea. It could be all that’s left in the end. I’m writing this from my tub surrounded by an RH Belgian linen shower curtain and looking up at an RH medicine cabinet though, so maybe Friedman will have the last laugh after all. I remain skeptical empire is built on shower curtains but I could be wrong.
