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Monica Bond's avatar

As a native born Santa Barbarian I have seen, obviously, many changes in our town throughout the years. I try to be realistic in the fact that changes are a part of the natural evolution of life. Having said that, one has to be a complete moron not to see that the "changes" in our once unique town are absolutely insane. I think we all have, pretty much, the same opinion of downtown State Street. Shopping in Santa Barbara is a no-go as well and as far as Old Town Goleta one can only shake their head. I have met no one that thinks either Santa Barbara or Goleta have improved in any way and one has to wonder if the only ones that might like the improvements have been making money hand over fist from these changes. A well done article, Scott.

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Eric Gordon's avatar

Good synopsis. I tried last year in Goleta (ran for city council to bring common sense) but like any addict, our small town has not hit rock bottom yet. Our little seaside town of 30K residents still spending state money like it’s a big city of 1M+

It’s funny you mention “Back To The Future”. I wrote an entire piece countering the insane bicycle lobby entitled “Back to the Future”. But the “Independent” refused to publish it (probably because it was a rebuttal to multiple articles they published promoting Thousands of unaffordable high density housing projects, $50M bike paths, $5M library remodel, $5M restripe project, $25M Homeless shelter, and $25M train station projects…among others…all in a town of just 30K)

They are too far gone. They have to hit rock bottom 1st. By then it will be too late. This was the plan all along.

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