The thing everyone seemed to miss about the Cliff Drive oceanfront was it’s a double lot. If you take a look at what the other double lots once split on that small private lane have actually gone for it was the best deal in town. A couple million into reno of the existing home and you would have a $10-12 million dollar place (also has path to the beach and a large patio halfway between beach and house). Then you have an oceanfront lot to do with as you please on other side. The other three lots that sold on street now have homes valued in the $12-15 million range built on them and that extra lot is the last buildable parcel there of the 9 that comprise the street..
Their sandwiches are HUGE and GREAT. (You can order all the Duke's products, including mayo with olive oil and their mustards on-line. https://dukesmayo.com/)
I'm so jealous! I've wanted to go to Santa Barbara Island for years.
Santa Barbara should start using Ranked Choice Voting so that anyone elected has at least 50% support. Seems undemocratic for someone to hold office when they can be the choice of a minority of voters. For example, Randy Rowse received 38.6% of the vote. Would he have won if ranked choice voting was used?
It's disappointing Delta is discontinuing non-stop flights to Atlanta. I had an important appointment in Atlanta which my husband and I flew out just this last Wednesday and came back Thursday. It was much easier to travel non-stop than going through SLC. Hope they bring it back.
I had no idea how desolate that island is, thanks for the photos & article.
Mission City Sandwich shop on the Mesa?
“Carolina gold” is a South Carolina mustard-based bbq sauce - very different than North Carolina’s vinegar based bbq sauce which is see through. Both are great but totally different.
Intrigued by Marci’s chicken pot pie
Eucalyptus trees are not “widow makers”
A "widowmaker" is a term for a suspended branch that could fall and cause serious injury or death. They can be caused by age, fungal growth, stress on a branch, or damage from other falling trees
They're called "widow makers" for a reason....
I know it’s sad to lose trees, but those eucalyptus trees are so dangerous for the area - old age, falling damage, fire hazard, etc. I agree that they should be removed.
The comments on this site are the worst. Including this one
That's a shame about losing the SBA->ATL, I suppose there's still DFW as a stopover and the new Chicago route being added next year, so not all bad.
Edhat (increasingly outsourced to writers in India) ?
Eucalyptus trees are from Australia and, as far as I know, none of them arrived with proper immigrant papers. Therefore, they all should be cut down and shipped back to Australia, or at least that's what ICE has stated.
Well said
Eucalyptus are non-native, invasive, messy trees that are giant flamethrowers.
People should be forced to remove them. Anyone with any fire responsibility would not want these near their homes. It's completely not true that if we have a fire of that magnitude, nothing will help. This is spoken like a true rookie. This row of trees makes Birnam wood completely indefensible from a fire. If they were gone, Birnam Wood is much more defensible.
They are giant massive flammable weeds, and this stretch of road looks hideous with them. Plan some nice trees that have beautiful canopies that are not giant flamethrowers.
Get rid of them.
" I eat meat and I drive a car- sue me" Careful, don't give CA legislators any ideas. This sounds like something they'd actually do.
I could give you statistics all day long about the harm HUMAN living does to this planet- almond milk lovers are the BIGGEST WATER abusers on earth, so whatever. I eat meat and I drive a car- sue me!
I was floored when she promised “new leadership that will lead us to progress and not stagnation,”. That's you! For the past 8 years you've literally been the leadership that brough us stagnation.
In kindness, it takes 70% of our water and over 60% of our use able land to produce food for factory raised animals so it is a little more than how people nourish themselves. We would eat out more often if the choices weren't so similar. Oh, and more than half of our medical grade antibiotics are used on these animals. Negative or not I hope one person beside Jenna is concerned.
The university is in dire straights with the budget and this is how they are courting donors? Who are these donors who are SO concerned with making sure there is housing for the Chancellor, what do they expect in return? The whole thing stinks.
as everyone else has stated here, eucalyptus trees are a serious hazard and liability. there is zero benefit to having them. they don't belong here and replanting is the best option.
I cannot in any way support Kristen Sneddon for mayor. A the end of the "Newsmakers W/Jr," interview on You Tube she said she will start her campaign by having a listening tour. I thought, what has she been doing for the eight years on the council? Obviously talking, from what I've seen. I admit, I have a condition, I'm fascinated by local politics and I watch every council meeting. Now the meetings are on You Tube so I can watch anywhere. I don't agree with Randy Rowse on every issue but I think he's doing a good job. Why change horses in the middle of the stream, as the saying goes? And State street was a stream Saturday night! A gross river of human pathogens and flotsam. In the interview Kristen said she was in favor of an approved plan to put trees down the middle of one block but "leadership" had blocked it. Yeah, hello! I could visualize trees in 24" boxes floating by. I could go on but I'll leave it at that. We've got a year until the election.
Every non-human that isn't domesticated gets eaten either alive or dead. Our world is full of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
Not so unusual to eat the flesh of dead animals.
