Villa rose Dario’s hotel
Seems like a very unwelcoming space as you walk in to Mission City Sandwich Shop. You enter to a big wall wrapped around the sandwich making space. You have to walk towards the back of the room to a small register/ordering area. After looking over the menu on their back wall, we walked down to the register/order area only to be ignored by those working behind "the wall." Several of them looked towards us but didn't actually walk over to see what we'd like to order until I actually waved my hand to them. After being ignored and noticing behind us several people waiting for their order, we decided to exit to visit one of the surrounding restaurants. Hoping this sandwich shop can become welcoming, or at least teach their staff to acknowledge those of us who are there to purchase food. Thank you.
Excellent! Thanks.
The Maxwell’s on Lomita and El Roblar in Mainers Oaks had a Tortoise Reserve. They were in their 80’s when I first met them. I was with Steve Chase from Supervisor Lacy’s office. I was the County Building Inspector and unusual flooding caused major problems for their property.
Did many of the turtles and tortoises come from the Maxwell’s?
This is awesome news! Open soon! We need ya!
I watched the Montecito Association meeting and wanted to clarify that they were specifically referring to Flock cameras, which will directly tie in to the law enforcement network. They were encouraging homeowners at key intersections to install these cameras. The Sheriff’s Department received a grant and installed 20 (maybe 22?) Flock cameras around the County. They have no additional funding but would love to have cameras along the main entrance/exit routes from Montecito.
Hi Mark,
Alex Timmons here. Please check out our website and retreat in British Columbia: https://mountaintrek.com/. Hiking is just one component of our program, and we offer multiple groups so guests can hike at the pace that's best for their goals (some want to push hard for fitness and physical health, some want to have a more mellow, nature-immersion-focused experience for mental health). Clean nutrition (local food only), yoga, fitness, mindfulness, stress reduction, community (we call "tribe"), sleep, and detoxification are equally as important. Most often, our guests are chronically sacrificing these elements of their health for their career/family/patients/clients/students or haven't been able to care for themselves because of a traumatic event like the passing of a loved one, and need professional support to get back on track. The Los Padres National Forest holds tremendous healing power, and is a wonderful setting for helping people reconnect with nature to restore, recharge, and heal.
Hi Annie, Tmpz, and Mike!
Alex Timmons here. Yes! the flies, heat, and fire risk are serious concerns - we studied all three for years before finalizing the design this retreat. We discovered that there is an ecological imbalance in the forest after generations of cattle grazing and fire prevention, both layered on top of climate-change-driven extended droughts and torrential winter storms. We've designed a landscape plan (with the help of UCSB's Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration and Arcadia Studios) that uses greywater to feed the regeneration of habitats for dwindling species that are natural predators of the flies. For heat mitigation, we have proposed for the retreat to run heat-pumps, powered by a 3,000 sq.ft. solar array (reminder, this retreat is fully off-grid), and have proposed to repurpose a 40,000 gallon water tank as a swimming pool. For fire, we have designed the retreat to use zero combustible materials on the exterior and have worked hand in hand with the Fire Department to design roads for their equipment, as well as a sprinkler system supplied at all times with 50,000 gallons of water (on top of the 40,000 gallons accessible from the pool). For torrential storms, we have proposed infiltration basins to put water back into the ground, recharging the water table of ourselves and our neighbors, rather than "hard-surfacing and diverting" into the creeks, which exacerbates erosion. I hope this adds some context!
Is the harbor restaurant and long boars up for sale once again? It might just be a rumor. You never know if it’s true or not. Have you heard anything?
According to the layout slide, it looks like an 8” wide public multi-use trail, not an 8’ wide. Hopefully that’s a typo.
The huge atrocity of a building, going up in Magnolia Plaza, which looms over the neighborhood, is such an eyesore for this area!! It blocks our beautiful mountains and does not blend in with the surroundings. Shame on whom ever approved this!
By the way, I’ll take our old, outdated houses. At least we have yards and a peaceful, friendly neighborhood.
Single dwelling homes are swiftly becoming a dying breed in this town, with an out of control council, gone crazy, building high density pod-style housing and ugly buildings on every corner.
The 9 hole, closed golf course in Hidden Valley and the farm land by Vons are two of the latest victims , which will soon be high density housing.
Looking forward to it. 🏞️
The style is "Chip and Joanna go to Montecito"
Graduated from Brooks Film School, Montecito in 1980 - return to visit often - sign me up!
And the community is very much still active. It is fun, diverse, and a bunch of nice people.
no, it is an inholding (private parcel).
What a healthy and nice way to expose people to this beautiful part of Santa Barbara. I would rather see a healthy retreat than an oil rig on Paradise road. I don’t think some hot weather and flies are deterrents. Everyplace has its non-ideal moments wether it is fog, rain, noise, bed bugs, or floods. The folks who live at Paradise road love it.
So if they get funding, permits and anyone wants to pay top dollar to be off the grid( in a less than spectacular place) they might open in a couple years. Got it
Isn’t this land owned by the Forest Service?
I agree with you about the flies and heat....outsiders have not a clue ... and then the fires!!
do you have Elon DS??
pasquale, Ranch Oso, thousand trails is very much still open
💯 . Better be some watering holes too. The unbearable fly bites will not be relaxing. Summer months they should close. Way too hot.
Please know I am interested!!
Absolutely LOVE Bossies! So good. So happy they are back! Can hardly wait to go get their yummy vegetarian plate and their cookies are Devine. ;-)
