••• “Temporary signs on sidewalks in Santa Barbara could get seized by the City of Santa Barbara, according to an ordinance change under discussion,” reports Noozhawk. “Currently, temporary signs are not technically legal, but the ordinance carries no enforcement mechanism to remove them, unless the city wants to sue a business owner. The city is looking to make it possible that it could remove the signs and then thrown them away after 90 days.” I’m sympathetic to businesses trying to get people’s attention, but I can’t imagine seeing one of those signs and thinking, Gee, I should go there. Also, who’s going to enforce the new ordinance?
••• “The county supervisors had just voted […] to begin the process of phasing out onshore oil and gas operations in Santa Barbara County. […] If all goes as the majority vote intended, no new onshore wells will be allowed in Santa Barbara County. (Currently, there are 2,348 wells; of those, 1,030 are still active.) The existing industry will be allowed to sputter out over a yet-to-be-determined period of time and then die a quiet, controlled death.” —Independent
••• “The City of Santa Barbara has red-tagged the headquarters of La Casa de la Raza [601 E. Montecito Street], claiming that multiple safety concerns make the building unsafe. […] In addition, the organization was informed earlier this week that the building would be sold later this year.” —Noozhawk
••• “The Carpinteria Planning Commission unanimously approved a plan for the decommissioning and removal of the Chevron oil and gas processing facilities near the Carpinteria Bluffs. The approval of the development plan and coastal development permit marks a major checkpoint for the project, which has been in the city pipeline since October 2021.” —Coastal View News
••• Homebody Studios opens June 14 at the Post. —Montecito Journal
••• “Ventura County in California has been awarded a $500,000 grant to establish an Advanced Air Mobility Innovation Center. The planned Innovation Center will feature a 500-square-mile testing range for Advanced Air Mobility at Camarillo Airport and Oxnard Airport. […] The airports will manage testing for unmanned aerial systems and electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Testing will comprise about 5% of daily airport activities, according to county officials.” —General Aviation News
••• The Goleta Design Review Board “had a conceptual review hearing for a project at 115 Castilian Drive, which would include the development of a repurposed airport hangar from the Santa Barbara Airport. The one-story converted Hangar 5 building would be used for office space and would be approximately 9,042 square feet. The site also would include two relocated quonset huts totaling 7,337 square feet from Tri-County Produce in Santa Barbara. The quonset huts also would be used for office space.” —Noozhawk
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No sandwich board signs? That’s what needs cracking down on? The City won’t stop until everyone has to use echolocation to find businesses – still bitter about the whole Institution Ale neon sign “controversy.”
yeah Topper remember that lady that was practically bawling at a hearing saying the bright lights from the neon sign could cause drivers on State St to swerve and hit pedestrians
Can the city please cite the kids going 35 mph on e bikes on the boardwalk before they hassle restaurants about signs? We were running there last night and were consistently blasted past. Someone, probably a small child they don’t see, is gonna get really badly hurt. I don’t see a single cop – but I’m sure the $120 million police station will solve that?
I’ll say it again, time for new leadership.
I will second and third and fourth this! Definitley time for me leadership! These bikes need to be banned and kids and adults using them should be cited and bike impounded. Unsafe and annoying!!
Peak NIMBYism banning onshore oil and gas in SB County while still relying upon oil and gas for transportation, heating and the many many products petroleum based products/plastics. If this was about environmentalism they’d want drilling done in SB where they can tightly control/monitor the process and minimize the carbon footprint of it’s extraction – processing – delivery by keeping things as local as possible. Instead, the faux environmentalist NIMBY’s would prefer the oil they consume on a daily basis be drilled in a far off land where environmental restrictions are much more lax to non-existent (and often exploitive of the local population) then have it shipped (using even more oil) half way around the world so we can use it.
Our backyard is more important so let’s do it in someone else’s….
Good point
If the oil companies would just clean up all the abandoned acres and acres of crap (rusty pipes well heads and other junk) spewed across the north county maybe the local government could at least get behind more onshore production. If anyone has driven up Cat Canyon, Cuyama, or other areas covered with this crap they would understand.
I agree with Jefferson. Banning local oil forces us to import it. California regulations at extraction facilities ensure minimal leaks, safe working conditions, and local delivery. Importing incentivizes poor extraction methods, unsafe labor standards, and excessively high carbon footprint to ship the product here.
Sable is winning currently- has the Gaviota Beach upper area closed to work on pipeline = THE PERMITS WERE ALWAYS THERE. They always had the right to do the updating and servicing on the pipeline.
I wonder how one can snidely look down upon our one operation here in SB County, gleefully clapping to shut it and any new operations down….while posting articles where they fly across the globe to venture, by vehicle, boat and more planes made by & operating on oil pumped from ground. Which oil operation is good? The one offering the USA a yuge plane?
Buy Sable – support local!
Need to do something about the city closing down State Street that’s why Santa Barbara is losing a whole bunch of money that was the most dumbest thing that the city could have ever done! You just open it up all kind of trouble kids flying around on those e-bikes doing 35 40 miles an hour around people they don’t even care in the city there’s nothing about that! You close off the State Street you got so much more terrible homeless mental homeless people out there they need help they not getting it!! But yet the city got all kind of money to buy new trucks for the city new police cars new fire trucks ambulances a new police station paving the streets over there! But the worst worst thing that Santa Barbara could ever ever do to Santa Barbara was closed State Street that was the stupidest thing and the most dumbest thing that I’ve ever seen Santa Barbara do in my whole 60 years being here this is absolutely asinine and whoever did it she’ll be fired cuz you killed Santa Barbara… Well maybe it needs to be taken care of if I already said it again I haven’t said this again you need to just post it so Santa Barbara can see it.
I have a sandwich board sign for my business in the Funk Zone. It works! Many many people that visit my shop tell me they saw my sign on the corner. Yes, it’s tourists for the most part that don’t know the area, but it really helps me get foot traffic into my space that may not have ever found me.