Every time something like this comes up I see a lot of the same complaints directed at elected officials at the local, state, and sometimes even federal level. I’ve noticed that a lot of people find it very easy to complain yet very difficult to act. Stop acting like you can’t do anything. If you don’t like your elected officials, change them. If you don’t like the laws, change them.
Love it, John, felicidades.
It's not the cemetery, the University Club, or Casa Blanca....
Unfortunately most of city council doesn't legislate what's best for Santa Barbara, they legislate what's best for their reelection prospects.
casa blanca
"Don't overthink" giving away public land? The "greater good" of subsidizing market rate housing and paying the property taxes for this developer? Say what?
Looks like the entrance to the cemetery
What a joke.
I'm so embarrassed for the city Council.
We're going to review all of this, yet continue to promote massive littering along the ocean with tens of thousands of micro confetti released for the fiestas, and on top of it not clean it up.
Zero consciousness, self reflection or integrity.
SB City would rather focus on things that don't matter while everything deteriorates around us. Let's not focus on any law-enforcement or basic common decency. lets talk plastic,
Dont overthink Paseo Nuevo being given away for housing. Residential development down there will make the biggest meaningful impact towards a State St turnaround. If AB walks, Paseo Nuevo will turn into yet another city run white elephant. The State St debaclle but on sterioids. More money spent on expensive out of area consultants and their reposrts that the city will not put into action. Asks made by the public and city council members that dont understand economics and development. A downward spiral blackhole. We can argue to open State St back up or not, but looking this gift horse in the mouth instead of looking at the greater good will be unrecoverable for at least a decade. There is no perfect, choose progress and keep moving forward one step at a time.
FFS!! Open State Street!
I compost all my green waste, so I appreciate the compostable green veggie bags,
I agree that plastic bags HELP KEEP VEGGIES FROM WILTING!
The University Club
Agreed, this ban is a fart in a hurricane which will have no measurable impact on microplastics in our environment. We have much bigger issues to tackle that produce actual results for people in SB. I'll also add, it's endless regulations like these that make the cost of living and doing business in Santa Barbara so damn high. Businesses are being micromanaged by people who've never ran a business.,
Nothing to see here folks. Just a group of inept do-gooders who think their job is to rule over you and tell how to live your life. Not too many things more evident of this social challenge than buying a cart full of plastic covered packaged goods and being denied a proper receptacle to carry them to your car. Which is also made of plastic...
On almost every measure Santa Barbara is failing city and yet the City Council thinks their duty is to rule over your life rather than tend to the business of a city with less than 100k people. Almost every single thing the city manages is a failure. Every thing except their pension. They seem pretty competent in making sure that your grand kids will be paying for their retirement as they continue to rack up hundreds of millions in debt to pay for past liabilities. Past liabilities!
Fire every single one of these incompetent nincompoops. They are hired to manage the business of the city not to rule over us like overlords. They all need to be reminded of their actual duties. Start with a pink slip and a swift kick out the door and finish with a lifetime of shame. They deserve the ridicule and the pain.
Nope....
This is petty and a waste of local government’s time.
If I don’t put my produce in plastic bags, it wilts very quickly. I shop at farmers market weekly and keeping stuff in plastic bags can get my produce incredible longevity in the fridge. The smelly “compostable” bags at the grocery stores don’t offer the same benefit either. Leafy greens and herbs wilt quickly and the bags stink. When I had a CSA box I ended up processing everything upon delivery and putting anything that could wilt into ziploc bags which use more plastic than the whisper thin bags at farmers.
I say this as a hardcore environmentalist with a minor in environmental science. This is a waste of time and energy. Let’s have our local government put their energy and enforcement and our tax dollars toward issues that are hyper local.
I am far more concerned about the proliferation of plastics in general life (people are wearing plastic, walking on plastic, sleeping under plastic blankets, etc. etc.) than carry out bags (and who doesn’t reuse many of them for various purposes?) and produce bags.
In the main hall of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse!
The Farmers' Market, especially. Last week they barely asked even though my reusable bag was practically in their faces. I get that it's busy and they're trying to move people along, or even just use up all these plastic bags they ordered, but they really shouldn't anymore. Think other markets like in Hollywood charge, finally.
But I appreciated them for cleaning up after pets.
Afraid not....
Paseo Nuevo
What a lucky friend to get that Betty White stamp on a postcard!
Looks like shelton work, so it's probably on one of his brothers buildings.
From Covid years to getting blasted by social media and our messy political landscape and the ability to work from home being the norm, this tucked away town on the coast where privacy is respected is not going to stop being in very high demand anytime soon, although the City continuing it's rabid path of building low income housing could be what wrecks this town in the long run.
Nothing against another Shelton special but the choice of an 8-room hotel + residential unit and ADU is certainly interesting and speaks volumes for the challenges of getting housing units added downtown even with the nominally "pro-housing" legislation that has passed.
Nope, but thanks for guessing!
I hope at the downtown Library, as the bird of paradise was part of their logo for many years.
