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The market has definitely cooled and the amount of water that Hope Ranch property consumes should be illegal!

It's amazing places like Earl Warren showgrounds want to do a massive remodel and spend so much money. These all seem like top signals where people are blowing so much money on construction everywhere and then the rug just gets pulled out under everyone. Also, shocking for the city to be so broke yet to have construction going on everywhere. Makes no sense. But they are working on passing a bill that a six story apartment building can be built on any SR one light within a half a mile of a bus stop. That just continues to degrade all common sense so you're single family home next-door can demo and build a six story apartment building. Ridiculous. Senate Bill 79, authored by San Francisco Democrat Sen. Scott Wiener, would “upzone” neighborhoods immediately surrounding train, light rail and subway stations in many of the state’s most populous metro areas. That means apartment developers will be able to construct residential buildings — some as tall as 75 feet — regardless of what local zoning maps, elected officials or density-averse neighbors say. Not sure it's this exact bill, but the guys name from San Francisco is appropriate. I mean, instead of shoving more people in areas that are fully… Full. Hate to say it but start developing the coast line to solving. Of course you won't open areas but we don't want to live on top of each other to preserve these areas. So sorry.

Agreed. Speed comes with focus. With the city’s strict building codes, it’s astounding that this design has gained any traction.

Cal Matters reported on the bill with a little bit of shade implying it’s a bunch of rich Santa Barbarian NIMBYs who don’t want that development behind the mission…wrong. It’s also us working locals! I am all for more low income housing - I’ve qualified for it before - but this building is a hideous monstrosity that shouldn’t exist. In this era of “black and white/extreme” thinking and debate, we need to understand multiple things can be true at the same time. Truth: we need more housing. Truth: this building is awful in many ways. We need to find a solution, but it isn’t this project. Thank you Senator Limón for standing up for REAL Santa Barbarians who don’t want this! We aren’t a bunch of rich celebrities; we’re real people who live and work here and recognize a bad project when we see one.

Why did you go and get political? So dumb,

Nope, but thanks for guessing!

I met Lester in 1986 on a beach in Mexico. He was with Greg, his son. I went to his home in Monticeto and again met his son, Greg. I found out about his death from a mutual friend I has met through Lester. A man named Roge, a man from India. I never met his first wife and he referred to his wife Hana and son Jack, I never met them and could not quite understand the relationship.

My mom got married there back when Andy and Dolly owned it.

We went shortly after they opened and enjoyed the staff, location, and what they'd done with the place, but the food was just bland. Very sad because they Mesa could really use an Indian place like Apna. Whether in person or via Grubhub, Apna has never disappointed.

Thanks Eric! Mate G. dreams about these cottages every day - and one right in our neighborhood. Heaven.

It's refreshing to see the word "entropy" in a real estate story. It brings an air of literary sophistication. I bet you are the only writer to use it in that context.

Someone ran into it. Poor visibility at that spot due to the flat road at the top of the incline. That’s why they went with crossing lights like a stop light.