Agreed Andy. It's a treasure of liquid assets! I'm not feeling this style of architecture for Coast Village Road. A glass tower? Who will plow into it first? LOL A glass building would be a stark contrast to the style of Clark's, The Coast Village Inn and Bar Lou. Which I have always found charming. How about matching the style of building where Renaud's is located? Solar car parks give an airport feeling. Do you know if The Bottle Shop will open elsewhere?
I will miss the Bottle Shop, but I’m not sure I will miss their pricing.
What I will deeply, deeply miss though is the sense of joy and wonder that you only can get there from pawing through a randomly merchandised shelf of only semi related bottles. And then you find a bottle of motor oil. Or a first aid kit. Or a single package of Twinkies.
Elizabeth's still mad at losing her life's savings to the Beanie Baby bubble back in 1999. Cant really blame her. Who would have thought a stuffed toy that she paid $10k for would be practically worthless only a few years later?
Im fine with it as with Douglas family preserve, Alice Keck Park Park and other generous donations in exchange for recognition.
100% agree!
No way should the the city have allowed the sports area have any branded name on the property, especially ‘Ty Warner Sports Complex’. Yikes!
I’d like to know who approved EOS fitness signage at both their current locations. it’s disproportionately large and looks really trashy.
Indio.... finally feeling the trickle-down effect of Coachella, Stagecoach and other events. It's otherwise one of those places where they pull up the sidewalks at 6pm.
Google it, babe.
Rincon Brewery‘s Funk Zone outpost is closing after tonight. The rumor is that South Coast Deli will take over the space. But I won't mention the actual address because my head is clean up my small intestine.
The old Victor the Florist shop at corner of Santa Barbara & Anapamu streets?
They can't even get the metro link linked!
Exactly this. I haven't heard any realistic alternatives yet.
The land is privately owned and zoned for development. What operates on it today exists at the discretion of the owners, and that can change at any time. We aren’t owed anything on that parcel. Those are wonderful businesses and I hope the development finds a way to incorporate them, but pretending the current arrangement is permanent doesn't help anyone, least of all those businesses. If it's really about saving them, then I hope you'll be there April 9th pushing for a way to include them in the plan. I heard the developers were telling people they were open to including the farm in the new plan, potentially.
Those tract homes are tacky and not good enough for precious Carpinteria. Carp deserves much better than those eye sores.
It’s not vacant parcel: it’s a beautiful co-op organic farm, Farm Cart Organics, that feeds our community, and a farm school, Carpinteria Children’s Farm, and Tee Time, a popular local business.
Respectfully, there was never a version of development on this site that Carpinteria was going to welcome with open arms. That's the problem. Even if we could rewind the clock, the hotel would get shot down again by the same people now fighting this. Something is going to get built, so what's the strategy, keep saying no until we lose the ability to say anything at all?
My comment on your post here last June:
https://www.sitelinesb.com/nearly-200-housing-units-proposed-for-the-carpinteria-bluffs/
“the developer is saying it’ll use the density bonus to accommodate the housing instead—and retain the Builder’s Remedy rights if they turn out to be necessary. ”
Translation – if you folks don’t like a 200 unit development, wait till you see the 400 unit one we have waiting in the wings.
and:
If people want to reflexively oppose everything, then they may end up looking at something that looks like the 505 E. Los Olivos Street proposal, and saying “hey you know, that hotel they proposed was pretty nice.”
I’d definitely prefer a hotel with restaurant, farm, grounds, etc. than Orange County tract homes.
For anyone curious, the "farm resort" initially proposed—and intensely resisted by Carpinteria residents—is described in this post: https://www.sitelinesb.com/99-room-farm-resort-proposed-for-the-carpinteria-bluffs/
The state is going to force housing on communities that don't plan for it. Carpinteria can either shape what gets built here or wait for Sacramento to do it for us. I'd rather have a say.
Genuinely curious what outcome you'd prefer. The land is privately owned and zoned for development. If not this, then what? Leaving it vacant forever isn't really on the table.
The big black pipe has never bothered me. Maybe because I've loved the SB harbor since the first time I saw it, that was the first week of October, 1977. I was in high school in Scottsdale, AZ and with some friends of mine we drove over to visit friends going to Westmont. Coming from AZ the drive though Montecito was magical. Then driving under the 101 and railroad crossing. . . . that was my first view of Santa Barbara. The bird refuge followed shortly by turning to the right and seeing the ocean. By the time we got down the harbor I was smitten. We parked where the bike path is today, and walked to John Dory's (Brophy Bros.). I can still smell the warm wet smell of the ocean. It was hot that week, kind of like it is today. Ever since that day I've loved the Santa Barbara harbor. So I don't mind the big black beautiful pipe. It functions to carry the sand (that is about to block the harbor entrance) down the coast. The beaches down the coast get sand, it's good all around.
Fully agree! I thought the hotel/farm/housing concept was a much better fit for that land. But when people oppose everything, something eventually gets crammed through.
Hotel concept was better than this
