My college friend opened up Moped City in the mid 1970’s next door to the adult bookstore. Yep, it’s been there forever. I guess Joe’s is another longstanding State st business although they were in a different location on State back then.
I’m so sick and tired of all these FoxNews-watching republitards thinking they can come in here an build whatever they want in order to fatten their wallets. We cannot take any more greenhouse gas emissions from these projects or the world will ceese to exist as we know it, but the moronnic right wingers our to stupid to know this.
What is the significance of the horseshoe motif? I recently saw similar horseshoes newly embedded in the ground in the parking area at Arlington Plaza, home of Carlitos restaurant. Just curious.
Anyone local knows The Adult Store! It’s been there to walk past since my actual childhood. I can still remember being a kid and it feeling a little creepy. Now that I’m an adult it doesn’t bother me what other adults find entertaining and I barely notice it, but I can imagine it’s probably still noticeable to kids; at least the storefront is toned since the ‘70s. It indirectly features on the Jeff Shelton walking tour (which I just took relatives on) because if you start at the Pistachio House and it’s storefronts, and then continue up State to Ablitt, you walk right past it (as my 93-year-old FIL pointed out). It’s now one of the oldest businesses on State St if not the oldest now that Thrifty (Rite Aid) is closed
Way too LA!
SNAP!
Great idea
Agree 10%
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.
