••• The city of “Santa Barbara will explore bringing a residential and commercial vacancy tax ballot measure to voters, but not until the November 2028 election.” There must be other ways to govern besides taxation. —Noozhawk
••• “State Street Holiday Parade Gets Green Light After Six-Year Hiatus.” —Noozhawk
••• Antique Alley will close in December after 33 years at 706 State Street. —Santa Barbara News-Press
••• “Nearly three decades after Santa Barbara voters banned gasoline-powered leaf blowers, the devices remain in widespread use throughout the city—including by city employees and contractors—according to a scathing new report from the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury.” —Edhat
••• “According to South Coast activists monitoring ICE enforcement actions on the South Coast, seven ICE vehicles hit Santa Barbara’s Westside and Eastside before 7 a.m. on Sunday, detaining and arresting anywhere from nine to 11 individuals on unspecified charges related to their immigration status.” They reportedly bear-sprayed a woman through her rear car window, sent a U.S. citizen to the hospital, and “hit speeds of 80 miles an hour barreling down San Andres Street [and] allegedly then performed donuts with their vehicles under the freeway overpass for about 15 minutes.” —Independent
••• Electrify America‘s EV-charging station at Carrillo and Chapala has opened. —Santa Barbara News-Press
••• “Santa Rosa Island Will Reopen to Public Following Historic Fire [….] Day Trips to Resume July 1, but Overnight Campers Will Have to Wait” for an undetermined amount of time. —Independent
••• The Santa Barbara Unified School District “school board unanimously approved a plan to repurchase 3.65 acres of what’s known as the Tatum property, located next to El Camino Elementary School at San Marcos Road and San Simeon Drive, to build affordable housing. […] The project will include 106 units. All will be income-restricted for households at or below 80% of the area median income. Priority housing will go to school district employees, and employees at other school districts will receive housing as a secondary priority. Eight units will also be reserved for veterans.” —Noozhawk
••• “New Anthem Chapel hit a setback in its quest to establish a Goleta home for its congregation. The Goleta Planning Commission did not approve the Christian church’s proposal to build a new facility at 6595 Covington Way after a lengthy Monday meeting. The project developers are allowed to appeal the commission’s decision to the Goleta City Council.” —Noozhawk
••• An update on the proposal to build an 18-story tower near the freeway in Carpinteria. —Noozhawk
••• Santa Barbara News-Press reports on a Carpinteria couple who launched a line of dolls called Seaglimmers “with nine types of mermaid characters resembling a family.” According to the brand’s website, the doll known as Mama Glimmer “gently breastfeeds her Baby Glimmer with a safety tested embedded magnet attachment.”
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