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Ronald Hays's avatar

Great expose’ Bonnie. This is EXACTLY why I recently sold my property in the 900 Block of State Street after 30 years of watching poorly managed City of SB policies killing our beautiful city.

Take for example the slow throttling of shopping time from 4 hours free down to the present 75 minutes. How in the world does compromising shopping time balance a parking garage budget primarily dependent on sales tax revenue? Aside from being impossibly ignorant of economics, it is just sad.

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Polly Frost's avatar

Thank you, Bonnie, this is brilliant. Because it's common sense! Which as we all know, isn't all that common. May I add that common sense is not only lacking in our local and state politicians - it's something they're openly antagonistic towards. They hate common sense. Common sense is for Deplorables and those middle class people who they'd rather just leave the state, because they protest their vision for a utopic bicyclist CA future - by saying it's nonsense! Their leader in Progressive Nonsense is Scott Wiener, who has the Machiavellian common sense to please his real estate development donors and control Gavin Newsom by telling him he can become President and turn America into the 15-minute woke country it should be! With luck and people like you, Bonnie, we may survive this 15-minute tyranny and not even get run over by a bicyclist as we try to get to our once beautiful downtown and enjoy it for more than 15 minutes. Maybe even spend a leisurely afternoon lunching at sidewalk tables, browsing through galleries and stores, encountering friends, proudly listening to passing-by tourists rave about what an ideal small city Santa Barbara is - rather than feel depressed over what it's becoming.

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