Not sure there are enough emojis or bold enough typeface to agree more with this critique of the draft plan. Council should waste no time--theirs or the public's--debating this.
Great article. I totally agree with everything you say I for one have not gone downtown for years because of the bicycles and the lack of shopping for so many years driving up State Street has been a part of Santa Barbara. How many hair would crew State Street up to the blue onion and then to the fig tree how many here went to Christmas parades with their children every year? We never got run over by bicycles. A friend of mine came on a ship recently to visit Santa Barbara and commented how it was so dangerous with the bicycles that they’ll never come back. They felt very uncomfortable, almost being hit a few times. Why don’t we ask the citizens of Santa Barbara what they want put it on the ballot with everything else
In the acknowledgment section of the draft monstrosity, 150 individuals organizations and consultants are named. One definition of governance by Democrats could be the perfection of the art of spending the maximum amount of money employing the maximum number of people to achieve the least. The point is not to solve anything but rather employ otherwise unemployable boobs at obscene salaries based not on any useful skills but rather belonging to the preferred ideological group.
Thank you Kevin!!! Admittedly having strode State Street when Hitchcock's or Pelch's were at State & "A", I strode State and Carrillo Tuesday to have to circumvent an abomination of an art project re$toration blocking pedestrian and automobile progress (in what was ONCE one of the most dynamic and beautiful and prosperous inner city in California.) What a ME$$ has been made of lovely and once successful downtown Santa Barbara. What a squander of OUR tax dollars!!
Thanks Kevin, for a fact based analysis. Sammy Davis voice singing "What kind of fool am I" plays in my head whenever someone cites the COVID years of 2021-2022 as a model for anything besides political foolishness. E bikes have greatly increased the risk posed by bikes.
Excellent article!!! A must read for our City Council members and anyone else of influence. Set any pride aside for past votes and really listen to what Kevin's article is saying. State St is such a sad place to go now. A once beautiful place destroyed by the closure. Plus we dont have the money for any of what is proposed in the master plan. I still am so stunned that the city voted to spend 1/2 a million dollars on trial pedlets for one block when any local contractor could have done it all for $20,000 or less. In this economy, we dont have the luxury for this kind of spending.
The only reason State Street is on life support and hanging by a thread is that its one main artery is clogged....removing the blockage is a simple procedure that will be life giving, profound, and immediately successful. Calling Dr. Rowse....stat!
Because of the layout of the down town Santa Barbara area, I just don’t go there. Another example of a vibrant, attractive Main Street is El Paseo in Palm Desert. There’s an Apple Store in both Santa Barbara and Palm Desert and I will ALWAYS go to the Apple Store in Palm Desert for a much nicer shopping or dining experience
NOTHING good has come by any entity CLOSING off a main artery in a city. Nothing. I so agree with this well written and well thought out piece by Mr Boss. I moved to Lompoc 2 years ago, and the last time I wanted to go to an event in Santa Barbara, I literally circled 2 blocks, 3 times to find a parking space; and the garage was closed due to being at capacity. I will never return. Lori Sexty
Our City Council is equivalent to a terminal cancer. The only way to save the patient (our beloved City) is to surgically remove the cancerous communists.
Not sure there are enough emojis or bold enough typeface to agree more with this critique of the draft plan. Council should waste no time--theirs or the public's--debating this.
Great article. I totally agree with everything you say I for one have not gone downtown for years because of the bicycles and the lack of shopping for so many years driving up State Street has been a part of Santa Barbara. How many hair would crew State Street up to the blue onion and then to the fig tree how many here went to Christmas parades with their children every year? We never got run over by bicycles. A friend of mine came on a ship recently to visit Santa Barbara and commented how it was so dangerous with the bicycles that they’ll never come back. They felt very uncomfortable, almost being hit a few times. Why don’t we ask the citizens of Santa Barbara what they want put it on the ballot with everything else
In the acknowledgment section of the draft monstrosity, 150 individuals organizations and consultants are named. One definition of governance by Democrats could be the perfection of the art of spending the maximum amount of money employing the maximum number of people to achieve the least. The point is not to solve anything but rather employ otherwise unemployable boobs at obscene salaries based not on any useful skills but rather belonging to the preferred ideological group.
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Thank you Kevin!!! Admittedly having strode State Street when Hitchcock's or Pelch's were at State & "A", I strode State and Carrillo Tuesday to have to circumvent an abomination of an art project re$toration blocking pedestrian and automobile progress (in what was ONCE one of the most dynamic and beautiful and prosperous inner city in California.) What a ME$$ has been made of lovely and once successful downtown Santa Barbara. What a squander of OUR tax dollars!!
Bravo! Best, most substantive analysis of the City’s expensive insanity on State Street
Thanks Kevin, for a fact based analysis. Sammy Davis voice singing "What kind of fool am I" plays in my head whenever someone cites the COVID years of 2021-2022 as a model for anything besides political foolishness. E bikes have greatly increased the risk posed by bikes.
Excellent article!!! A must read for our City Council members and anyone else of influence. Set any pride aside for past votes and really listen to what Kevin's article is saying. State St is such a sad place to go now. A once beautiful place destroyed by the closure. Plus we dont have the money for any of what is proposed in the master plan. I still am so stunned that the city voted to spend 1/2 a million dollars on trial pedlets for one block when any local contractor could have done it all for $20,000 or less. In this economy, we dont have the luxury for this kind of spending.
The only reason State Street is on life support and hanging by a thread is that its one main artery is clogged....removing the blockage is a simple procedure that will be life giving, profound, and immediately successful. Calling Dr. Rowse....stat!
Because of the layout of the down town Santa Barbara area, I just don’t go there. Another example of a vibrant, attractive Main Street is El Paseo in Palm Desert. There’s an Apple Store in both Santa Barbara and Palm Desert and I will ALWAYS go to the Apple Store in Palm Desert for a much nicer shopping or dining experience
Soon you may have no choice. The rumors have swirled for years about the closure of our local store.
Amen
Great article Kevin. When will the ideologues admit they’re wrong?
NOTHING good has come by any entity CLOSING off a main artery in a city. Nothing. I so agree with this well written and well thought out piece by Mr Boss. I moved to Lompoc 2 years ago, and the last time I wanted to go to an event in Santa Barbara, I literally circled 2 blocks, 3 times to find a parking space; and the garage was closed due to being at capacity. I will never return. Lori Sexty
Our City Council is equivalent to a terminal cancer. The only way to save the patient (our beloved City) is to surgically remove the cancerous communists.