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Hello City and County of SB, instead of turning this wonderful local gem into Beverly Hills North, wouldn’t this be a perfect location for the State’s mandatory affordable housing quotas forced on Carpinteria and Goleta, but not in Montecito ?
Yep. It’s a tragedy.
The zip code isn't actually relevant. Here's the map that shows Santa Barbara city limits (which includes Los Patos Way and Coast Village Road, also 93108): https://santabarbaraca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Services/Planning%20%26%20Zoning%20Maps/City%20Limits%20and%20Sphere%20of%20Influence%2011x17.pdf
FYI - Los Patos is 93108, thus in Montecito
Agreed.
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Rolex and Cartier? Gag me. I agree that this wonderful community keeps going down the slippery slope of "Lux." Yuck. So much catering to the very wealthy and often the tourist or second homeowner. I do think that area is a partially a diamond in the rough, is screaming for substantial improvements and a binding together of the different elements but more offerings for the 1 percenters? Please no. I've been here 50 years and some of the changes have been improvements in the community but many are just awful, soulless, boring venus flytraps for the occasional Whale-spender. Blah.
Nice idea but we need parking there-it’s a mess now - go to the beach to rest - it’s just right there!
Not only do we not need hotels but affordable housing (not $3000/mo. for a small studio). Where is all of this water supposed to come from? One rainy season is not going to end years of drought. I have spent most of my adult life cutting back on my water usage, for what? So out of towners can come and take 15 minute showers? They don't care.
We need many changes in Santa Barbara but a slick new shopping center isn't one of them. My doctor's office is there and the quiet little place is bursting with wisteria and other flowers in the spring. I just returned from Santana Row in San Jose and they offer flowers and eating frozen yogurt in a big overstuffed easy chair, among the many fancy offerings. It would be nice to offer a fresh place that all can enjoy. When I go there to the doctor I never think, if only this was more Montecito.
The timing of the renovation will surely be effected by the adjacent highway construction work. The plan appears to me most closely resembles the Trancus Country Mart on PCH or the larger center near the Malibu Colony, the latter with mad parking issues. Significant impact.
Nextdoor servers are gonna spontaneously combust here once the airport expansion gets going.
On the sidewalk next door to Rooms and Gardens in the 900 block of State in front of an office.
And where do all the people needed to service, clean, supervise all these unneeded hotel rooms live?
One more step in the demise of Montecito- fast becoming a suburb of west LA with the inflated real estate prices and pushy, in -a - hurry people to go with it So very sad
That is a charming, authentic corner of Santa Barbara and Stella Mare in the historic building is like stepping into the South of France 30 years ago. They are only leaving because the new owner will not renew their lease. This development takes a magical, timeless gateway between spot and turns it into Culver City.
I agree housing is much more in need than hotels rooms.
Looks like the applicant is Arvand Sabetian, so I can stop worrying about it being seedy. Still, am concerned about a proliferation of even more hotels. It seems at the very least misguided that we appear to be redeveloping a large amount of downtown properties into hotels, while having to rezone other major areas in order to keep up with the absurd housing demands from the state. We could and should put a lot more housing downtown but instead it’s one new hotel project after the next.
I so agree with da del Rolex and Cartier are not what the community needs. Please don't turn our charming community into Beverly Hills with tour buses dumping people off on the corner!
Hmm… as a neighbor, I don’t love the State Street proposal. Another hotel? Housing conversion would be much better. The hotel sounds sort of sketchy and I’m wondering what type of place it would be considering the Orange Tree Inn across the street, which has recently served as housing for the homeless.
oh brother! just what the average resident and tourist needs! really ?!
It’s been rumored that Rolex and Cartier have committed to two of the retail units - fingers crossed!
Open Air Bicycles used to be down by the train station, so I don’t see there moving from State Street as rats fleeing a sinking ship.
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