They picked the ugliest fence possible for 935 Arcady
OH goodness! The reasons for parking increases are insane. If someone wants to watch the clock and move the car it's on them. Why on earth are local residents paying more than commuters for parking permits? Shortening the amount of time for free parking will limit the amount of time window shop and spend money. A night out on the town is expensive when you pay $9 for parking on top of dinner and entertainment. Downtown Team Manager Sarah Clark is pushing people away not drawing them in to visit downtown. I read or saw her talking about this. The logic is head scratching. Besides how can parking lots cost the city $13 million a year?
It’s an absolutely terribly run city. Go literally anywhere else and walk the downtown, the parks, open spaces, see the more obvious police presence, and you will agree with me. Talk to any elected city official about the most obviously broken thing that would have been fixed by now in much poorer cities and hear their complacency.
Please join me in voting them all out as soon as possible. Can someone please run who is competent? We don’t need friendly or funny. We need good decisions and action.
This is a problematic situation regarding congestion and parking. Most of these new units will likely have at least one car per household, with many having two or three. These vehicles will need to park throughout Gutierrez and Alisos streets, near the misguided "bike-friendly" street modifications that have merely redirected traffic to other parts of the neighborhood.
Milpas Street has become congested during morning and afternoon hours. With delivery trucks blocking the right lane (often being too large to navigate around) and obstacles in the center divider, congestion has reached extreme levels. The situation will likely worsen with the planned 90-unit development at "Milpas Gardens" - a sick pretentious name for the project.
While the Capitol Hardware project may not proceed since the developer withdrew, construction could still move forward. Imagine the chaos of construction happening simultaneously with two schools dismissing students, vehicles parked illegally in red zones, creating dangerous conditions for schoolchildren - two of whom have tragically lost their lives in intersection accidents.
I recently witnessed three kids speeding down the sidewalk on e-bikes, nearly hitting a woman exiting AutoZone with her infant. This type of dangerous behavior continues with minimal enforcement or consequences, ultimately endangering community members.
Additionally, the new Reyes Market lacks adequate delivery infrastructure, resulting in delivery vehicles parking in red zones adjacent to crosswalks for extended periods, blocking their own business entrance and exit, further compounding these issues.
100% spot on. The city is so complacent doing nothing to protect citizens allowing lawlessness everywhere that endanger its citizens, public safety hazards everywhere. 2
Teenagers already dead from getting hit by cars around Milpas and the street is more congested, more dangerous, delivery trucks blocking every intersection and the middle of the road cars cannot get by students everywhere on E bikes it’s just a bad scenario, one of 20.
But my favorite is the green city, the tree city, Santa Barbara, having an annual festival that explodes millions of pieces of confetti trash all along the beach. This is the mindset in a nutshell.
It’s amazing that these people either have no work ethic and integrity, or they do and they’re just not allowed to do anything. What a broken system.
Great reporting always! Medcenter is the worst service on the planet, some of the rudest and most complacent people work there. They need to close. We called for some bloodwork results and the girl just went off on us. It was crazy. It’s frightening when absolute horrible people are running the front desks and medical offices.
Santa Barbara has lost its mind. Gifting some random private businesses public funds and resources is beyond acceptable. The entire city government needs to be reworked and rethought. The City is over $1billion in the hole, has more than employees than any comparable municipality while its tax rolls and income are decreasing and its expenditures and liabilities increasing. This is the recipe for bankruptcy and ultimately, austerity. Who is going to pay for all these social programs, public housing and business giveaways let alone fund the pensions and health care already committed while sales taxes decreased and costs skyrocket?
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The City keeps putting more and more low income people downtown, removing more and more parcels from tax rolls all while revenue is stagnant and prices are increasing for everything, for everyone. So who is going to pay for all of this? Broke college kids? Immigrants working min wage? Tourists from the Inland Empire spending $400 a night for a Motel 6? A 15% sales tax? Who? How?
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It's beyond fixing at this point. The most likely scenario is a major earthquake, then bankruptcy, austerity and billions in federal and state dollars over decades to help the city rebuild. We're literally being led by morons, grifters and coddled whiners. Crazy times.
I think she meant it metaphorically, comically, rhetorically, possibly metaphysically and likely cockily. But certainly, like the post...hilariously!
Pretty interesting: https://goletahistory.com/the-goleta-slough/
. . . . incidentally ~ when Mort Zuckerman was on the McLaughlin Group show John asked him “who’s richest in your set?” He replied “I would say Huguette Clark because hers is all cash!”
I recall reading that the slough near what is now UCSB was once navigable and had an island even before it silted up.
Might, MIGHT be the area that was depicted.
That’s so messed up for the cookie pls e. They should just open up on the sidewalk. The city does nothing about illegal vending. In fact they protect them while they go after restaurant owners.
Seems like the best business model is no business license no health checks no rent no problem
As far as Reyes market, enjoy that 18 wheeler double parked in the red zone up against the crosswalk making more traffic issues on Milpas.
It’s been there every day 1-2 hours lift gate down obviously a new thing that the police have no trouble with
You are joking, right. Most of our neighborhood is against this project, and with good reason. Not in our backyard, please and thank you
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Why would you bother to put only seven headliners are women? Isn’t that racist?
Doesn’t it only matter to get headliners that will sell tickets? Doesn’t matter if they are white, brown , black or female.
They need to sell tickets
I guess I’m the only one who thought the Santa Barbara seal story would be about an oceanic animal. Appreciated it and the library love anyway.
This is awesome! We are in transition to FT life in SB ❤️ and have wondered about this (and many other interesting things) as part of our activities to understand our new community. Thanks Erik & librarians!
Things like this damage communities by warehousing humans in shoeboxes then calling those "housing". Build-baby-build state incentives will NEVER fix the 'housing crisis' because it is not a supply side problem. This housing problem is a direct consequence of institutional investors, rigged rental apps, and money trying to make money in a highly lucrative market where living space is traded like a commodity.
One less developer. I truly hope they cancel the entire project at Capitol hardware. Milpas Street is already such an unbearable cluster daily, with 18 wheelers parked in the middle of the street, and now delivery drivers are just blocking the right hand lane and dropping the gate. They don't care, the cops don't care. The problem is right behind him there are numerous developers at the city will roll out the red carpet for. Let's not forget the 90 units going behind the new Starbucks with the demolition of eight little houses, and the monster going up at tri County produce.
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Such a great question and great read.
Our librarians are amazing people — and excellent for sleuthing many questions. I wish we'd all utilize them more.
Kate - The Princesa and Favorita in the shallow bay in Goleta makes a TON of sense. Still a bit of a mystery about that lighthouse, but the military museum link was also a great find.
Bravo!
Erik may be a relative "newcomer", but he's definitely an "insider" when it comes to what's happening in Santa Barbara.
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VIVA GOLETA
I suspect the two ships represent the Princesa and the Favorita, which anchored outside the old shallow bay at Goleta in 1782 (the bay was largely filled in during the Great Flood of 1862 and is now the location of the Santa Barbara Airport): https://www.militarymuseum.org/PSB.html
