Thanks Bonnie! If all those knuckleheads don’t wake up very soon & reverse the supermajority of liberal politicians that demand eradication of use of oil & gas in California, the mass exodus will continue. Of late, bills for utilities, especially electricity and natural gas have spiked to unreasonable levels. Legislators want all residents to convert to electric, wind & solar! Ok, with the majority of residents (forget the word “citizens”) renting, think landlords are going to pay for solar on their rentals, never happen! Think illegals will buy all electric vehicles, wrong again! Thank God we will have a new Administration in 2+ weeks!
Now we need to rid our state of Newscum and his cronies!
Government employee self-serving internal demands are now the tail wagging the development dog. They want to grow, grow, grow because growth is required to support their own grow, grow grow compensation demands.
This is their existential "crisis"; not ours. But how do we unhinge from the unhinged, in this one company town - government employment? Agree Bonnie, let's all commit to and immediately protest, anytime any local pol ever again uses the term "crisis" ever again.
We can slowly change the political narrative - there shall be no more "crisis" except from natural disasters. And the demands of the anonymous "state" are in fact the self-serving machinations in Sacramento committed by Assemblyman Gregg Hart and state Senator Monique Limon. Neither of whom deserve re-election to anything.
I also see where UCSB students got the top "civic engagement" award in the recent election among UC campuses for the highest student voter participation.
This explains how the strong local opposition to the ill-advised half billion dollar SBCC bond was drowned out by these "civic-minded" transient out of town students. A real hit and run operation by outsiders, who overrode the depth of the local opposition from property owners who are now stuck paying for continued SBCC mismanagement. That too qualifies as a crisis.
It’s interesting when traveling to other states and then realizing how dysfunctional California is. My Daughter, who attends the University of Kansas is settling there after graduation and NOT returning to her home state because of the favorable cost and standard of living. It’s really noticeable in mid west states like Kansas and Missouri how roads, infrastructure, housing and commerce are all thriving. Everyone seems to be working with little or no homelessness!
Residents of the various red states, Texas, Florida and Nevada have been very vocal on social media about NOT wanting the influx of California residents invading their state. Why is that? Let’s see; they bring with them liberal, failed politics, driving up housing costs, high crime, failing schools and woke, anti-Christian agendas. No wonder they don’t roll out the welcome mat! Yes, our once Golden State has become a mockery, how truly sad and pathetic.
LT - folks haven't wanted Californians to move in since forever. Even back when Reagan was governor. But perhaps you're right and it' gotten more intense - as now all the expat CA folks have a bunch of money and are more liberal.
When I lived in Colorado in the late 80 and early 90s 99% of the bathroom stall jokes were about Texans. And the past few years more folks are moving to CO from TX than CA. Similar bumper stickers in Santa Fe, etc.
I recently ran for a city council position in Goleta and one of the central tenets of my platform was exactly this, that there is no housing crisis. The entire thing is a lie! They sell the housing mandates here by convincing the residents to feel guilty about owning a home in one of the most desirable places on the planet to live. The incumbent city council all the way up to the state legislature in Sacramento keeps doing the same thing, mandating housing and ruining small towns like Goleta and Santa Barbara. The locals feel guilty about the homeless and that their own children won’t be able to buy a home here so they think the answer is to build more housing (that is also entirely unaffordable)
The only people who benefit from this is the incumbent politicians (who have never built a single thing in their entire lives, let alone a house); and the state approved contractors and developers who get the jobs (who then kickback generously to the politicians in office to keep them in power and mandating and re-zoning for more development)
I showed people what was going to happen to their beautiful small town.
The main pushback I received was that I was not experienced enough (untrue), I was a NIMBY (common tactic to make successful people feel guilty…didn’t work, I’m Jewish); and old reliable calling me a “Trumper!” 🤪😂
The establishment Democrat machine was too powerful and already has all these small towns deeply in hock (Goleta over a half Billion dollars in unfunded liabilities alone) This means that just the classic “pimp/whore” relationships, the state has “conditionally” loaned/granted the small towns tons of money for things they don’t need… if the small towns vote the current leadership out of office, reject all the grants, and want out of the abusive relationship, the state will sue the town into bankruptcy.
Democrat Mean Machine uses those exact same tactics against anyone who tries to intrude on their self-serving political hammer lock. While the growing public debt obligations used to fund Democrat one-party government employee demands, the future generation debt obligations continue to grow, grow, grow. Thank you for trying, Eric.
This was the same line used against the new SF mayor Lurie: he has no government experience. Yes, that was the whole point. How else can the necessary fundamental change come about? Insiders have no interest is change. Nor even ability to see it, let alone to manifest it. A good test case - which way will SF finally go with this new outside leadership? How fickle will voters be when the former insiders hold their ground.
At this point, no one candidate can beat the local machine. It will take an organized slate of candidates that has realistic financial backing to take on the highly organized Democrat machine and be ready for their now predictable wails, slurs and obstructions.
I used to be an architect/builder/developer in the even more corrupt (if you can believe it) Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, so I know how the game is played. It’s so easy to spot once you see it.
There is hope. Remember that I lost 65/35? I spoke to the hapless guy who ran against the incumbent here 4 years ago and he lost 75/25. And the guy before him 8 years ago lost 90/10.
So the Dem machine is weakening and it looks like the thrall is wearing out of the relationship 🧛♀️ 😂
How true JL, and in the meantime Republicans as usual, are muttering and wasting valuable time in electing their Speaker. Truly an embarrassment and those responsible ie Massey et al , need to be primaried next go round.
At least "democracy" has not been threatened. Hah. No need for embarrassment. This is the way it was designed to work. Voters did not offer much wiggle room, so their own desire for "gridlock" must be accepted ...this time. Which is still a gadzillion times better than last time.
However, I can fault Trump in trimming the original 2024 GOP House majority- due to his own administration poaching. And California for also gaming their now notorious"long counts" for greatest after the fact partisan impact too. Imagine that, all long counts went Democrat?
Plus we have not fully explored the partisan impacts of the CVRA "rotten borough" gerry-mandering population-based districts that are also virtually all "Democrat" too.
Celebrate getting as close as we did this time. Gridlock is still better than a highly destructive continuation of the Democrat status quo and dropping off the near-miss tipping point had they won it all.
Recently wife Michele and I were driving through southeastern Washington and experienced the housing boom in the tri-cities area that includes Kennewick. Here were being built hundreds of mini-Mcmansions, going for about 500k. The summer days we were there the temp was hovering about 105. The winters there are pretty harsh. BTW, Flagstaff can have harsh winters. We visited friends there a year ago in May and there was still snow on the ground. They now board their horses in winter in Phoenix and repair to a condo in Glendale, Az.
If the properties now being marketed as short-term rentals and Air B&Bs were all turned back into rentals here, that's a step. Promote the hotels instead for visitors. And build again the sort of single room occupancy facilities that used to be here, the Carrillo Men's club and so many others, to tuck away the less fortunate who now sleep in the bushes. There is a ton of money in the government "experiencing homelessness" complex, but it is being squandered to keep bureaucrats in their jobs.
My sister is building a new home on her ranch property in Granbury, Texas, similar in size to the horse ranches in Santa Ynez. She already has a small, older home. This new one will be a lovely custom 2,500 sq foot house with all the amenities. The contractor breaks ground in two weeks. Move-in date? April. April 2025. The only permits are for water-related: the septic tank and the new well. Oh, not to forget: Kim only just decided to build the home within the past two weeks! Every time she calls to ask me what I think about this or that, like the exterior brick color (Go for the earth tones to match the landscape), I laugh! I get downright giddy when we discuss the fireplace placement and the laundry room the size of a Santa Bsrbara ADU. It's surreal, as I reflect that her start to finish for a quality home is just the beginning of the permitting process at home in California. Cali's is a crisis of our own making. Is it coincidence that just now my classical music station is playing "Building the Barn" score from the film, "Witness"?
So many places to choose from Bonnie. Wherever someone moves to, hopefully the town of choice doesn't become an area of settling illegal immigrant gangs. If thinking of moving, might consider waiting for the country's occupancy distribution of these new arrivals. When Trump steps in, no doubt many of the illegals will be scattering to new areas. Happy New Year Everybody!
Fomenting a perpetual state of "crisis" does not lead to sound long-range planning. It creates only short-term, knee jerk extortions. Ban the word "crisis" from our civic dialogues. That is one way to put adults back in charge.
Real estate prices are relatively cheap in Northern California, for example in Humboldt County. Unfortunately the job market and infrastructure are lacking.
I'd love to hear a viable way to reduce or eliminate them from you. I agree with you that unions have many negative aspects- especially those operating in government. I'd love to get rid of all of them providing there were enforced regulations in place to do what unions were enacted for in the first place. Had workers had decent protection a century ago we might not be haunted with unions today.
TJ: Have Trump rescind the 1962 executive order that allowed government employee unions at the federal level, and hope the trend catches on at the state and local level. Just like it did in reverse, back in 1962.
Then hold on tight, this will not go down easily as we have handed far too much power over our daily lives to these very same union,s who now own us. It will be ugly and not easy.
Be resilient, be strong and be resourceful. Find work-arounds when faced with government threats. Big Government intends to own every part of our daily lives, so any threats to their power base are intended to punish us first.
We set this up this way. But if is finally choking us. Eg: Tax yourselves if you want your potholes fixed, because all new money goes to fund our own pensions first.
First step it to stop electing compromised officials who make these compromised these decisions in our names. Second step, just like Prop 13, tax revolt. Bring back independent, arm-length bargaining to all government employee negotiations. Voters need to understand the value of renewed independence in our elected officials.
Right now this is a lonely voice going against a very well-oiled and well funded machine. The great irony is we are funding the well-oiled machine to keep doing this to ourselves. Is that a definition of insanity, no matter who said that first.
I read this very interesting article by Ms. Donovan titled "The Housing “Crisis” is Over"
that should be titled "There is a Threat-Crisis In CALI -Time to Move-Out"
I quote from the article "We were going to Flagstaff to find them either a place to build a home or to buy a home. Flagstaff has what they want – skiing –, which we did for three days at 11,500-ft “SnowBowl” just 15 miles from the town of Flagstaff."
I went through the same process two years ago, left SB and CALI. SnowBowl AZ received only 28 Inches this year and nice little resort but really no snow. If you are really into SKIING and getting away from it all there are better options in Idaho and Utah like SNOWBIRD UT, where I trained, over 400 Inches a year or close-by SNOWBASIN UT> https://www.snowbasin.com/
I'm confused about the notification for 308 W. Montecito street. Last I heard was the owner, Ed St. George had approval for a hotel on the site. But a couple months ago I noticed work going on and now there are two housing unit being built. As of today they look great, almost done. That blue card also mentions 315 Bath street, is that the location for these two buildings? And Bonnie, did you see there are also notices on the chain link fence surround the dirt lot on the corner of Castillo & Montecito streets? It's for more housing, not the proposed hotel annex that already came before ABR. Big thanks to Mr. St. George for building housing on these sites instead of hotels.
Ed had three hotels approved in SB, all now housing.
315 is the address the notice was sent. 308 is where the 6, 2-story ADU's are being built. The two buildings that are almost done is where the brown apartment building parking lot was.
Sorry to use bad language, but F&$* Ed St, George. I watched the ABR meeting today and I can't believe no one on any of the boards and commissions speak out against AB 2097. (no parking for autos is required because it is close to the train station.) (Seriously?!! Who takes the train to work that lives in this area???) As you said, the neighborhood is already impacted with no available parking spots on the streets. WTF?
Is this wierd? Not if you are a pro-density party member. Who has been pushing this for over 2 decades? You guessed it. It started with smoker toker called Gov. .
Who has been jamming it down the throats of every and district / city in the State.
Are you looking around the State of confusion called Calif.?
See the Daily Tons of Concrete and re-bar that is paving over paradise? Want more? How about the failure of closing down streets that crush business and then taxes?
So let's build failed 15 minute cities, high rise Skinner boxes call living units. Streets that do not work, and emergency paths that fail. Why? To make up the crashed tax base? Sure because the big government idiots that are elected to office have painted themselves into a box with no way out.
Geez Bonnie next time you go on vaca, let me know.....!
Thanks Bonnie! If all those knuckleheads don’t wake up very soon & reverse the supermajority of liberal politicians that demand eradication of use of oil & gas in California, the mass exodus will continue. Of late, bills for utilities, especially electricity and natural gas have spiked to unreasonable levels. Legislators want all residents to convert to electric, wind & solar! Ok, with the majority of residents (forget the word “citizens”) renting, think landlords are going to pay for solar on their rentals, never happen! Think illegals will buy all electric vehicles, wrong again! Thank God we will have a new Administration in 2+ weeks!
Now we need to rid our state of Newscum and his cronies!
Government employee self-serving internal demands are now the tail wagging the development dog. They want to grow, grow, grow because growth is required to support their own grow, grow grow compensation demands.
This is their existential "crisis"; not ours. But how do we unhinge from the unhinged, in this one company town - government employment? Agree Bonnie, let's all commit to and immediately protest, anytime any local pol ever again uses the term "crisis" ever again.
We can slowly change the political narrative - there shall be no more "crisis" except from natural disasters. And the demands of the anonymous "state" are in fact the self-serving machinations in Sacramento committed by Assemblyman Gregg Hart and state Senator Monique Limon. Neither of whom deserve re-election to anything.
I also see where UCSB students got the top "civic engagement" award in the recent election among UC campuses for the highest student voter participation.
This explains how the strong local opposition to the ill-advised half billion dollar SBCC bond was drowned out by these "civic-minded" transient out of town students. A real hit and run operation by outsiders, who overrode the depth of the local opposition from property owners who are now stuck paying for continued SBCC mismanagement. That too qualifies as a crisis.
It’s interesting when traveling to other states and then realizing how dysfunctional California is. My Daughter, who attends the University of Kansas is settling there after graduation and NOT returning to her home state because of the favorable cost and standard of living. It’s really noticeable in mid west states like Kansas and Missouri how roads, infrastructure, housing and commerce are all thriving. Everyone seems to be working with little or no homelessness!
Residents of the various red states, Texas, Florida and Nevada have been very vocal on social media about NOT wanting the influx of California residents invading their state. Why is that? Let’s see; they bring with them liberal, failed politics, driving up housing costs, high crime, failing schools and woke, anti-Christian agendas. No wonder they don’t roll out the welcome mat! Yes, our once Golden State has become a mockery, how truly sad and pathetic.
LT - folks haven't wanted Californians to move in since forever. Even back when Reagan was governor. But perhaps you're right and it' gotten more intense - as now all the expat CA folks have a bunch of money and are more liberal.
Typical 1980s Oregonian bumper sticker:
Welcome to Oregon
Now Go Home
1970's Denver cars sported bumper stickers "Don't Californicate Colorado". How did that work out for them?
When I lived in Colorado in the late 80 and early 90s 99% of the bathroom stall jokes were about Texans. And the past few years more folks are moving to CO from TX than CA. Similar bumper stickers in Santa Fe, etc.
Interesting metric below, regarding the life expectancy on blue vs. red states.
https://fortune.com/2023/05/25/american-dream-migration-south-life-expectancy-blue-red-state/
I recently ran for a city council position in Goleta and one of the central tenets of my platform was exactly this, that there is no housing crisis. The entire thing is a lie! They sell the housing mandates here by convincing the residents to feel guilty about owning a home in one of the most desirable places on the planet to live. The incumbent city council all the way up to the state legislature in Sacramento keeps doing the same thing, mandating housing and ruining small towns like Goleta and Santa Barbara. The locals feel guilty about the homeless and that their own children won’t be able to buy a home here so they think the answer is to build more housing (that is also entirely unaffordable)
The only people who benefit from this is the incumbent politicians (who have never built a single thing in their entire lives, let alone a house); and the state approved contractors and developers who get the jobs (who then kickback generously to the politicians in office to keep them in power and mandating and re-zoning for more development)
I showed people what was going to happen to their beautiful small town.
The main pushback I received was that I was not experienced enough (untrue), I was a NIMBY (common tactic to make successful people feel guilty…didn’t work, I’m Jewish); and old reliable calling me a “Trumper!” 🤪😂
The establishment Democrat machine was too powerful and already has all these small towns deeply in hock (Goleta over a half Billion dollars in unfunded liabilities alone) This means that just the classic “pimp/whore” relationships, the state has “conditionally” loaned/granted the small towns tons of money for things they don’t need… if the small towns vote the current leadership out of office, reject all the grants, and want out of the abusive relationship, the state will sue the town into bankruptcy.
I lost 65/35
Democrat Mean Machine uses those exact same tactics against anyone who tries to intrude on their self-serving political hammer lock. While the growing public debt obligations used to fund Democrat one-party government employee demands, the future generation debt obligations continue to grow, grow, grow. Thank you for trying, Eric.
This was the same line used against the new SF mayor Lurie: he has no government experience. Yes, that was the whole point. How else can the necessary fundamental change come about? Insiders have no interest is change. Nor even ability to see it, let alone to manifest it. A good test case - which way will SF finally go with this new outside leadership? How fickle will voters be when the former insiders hold their ground.
At this point, no one candidate can beat the local machine. It will take an organized slate of candidates that has realistic financial backing to take on the highly organized Democrat machine and be ready for their now predictable wails, slurs and obstructions.
I took a shot! Had to try. 🤷♂️
I used to be an architect/builder/developer in the even more corrupt (if you can believe it) Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, so I know how the game is played. It’s so easy to spot once you see it.
There is hope. Remember that I lost 65/35? I spoke to the hapless guy who ran against the incumbent here 4 years ago and he lost 75/25. And the guy before him 8 years ago lost 90/10.
So the Dem machine is weakening and it looks like the thrall is wearing out of the relationship 🧛♀️ 😂
In 4 years it may even be 50/50!
How true JL, and in the meantime Republicans as usual, are muttering and wasting valuable time in electing their Speaker. Truly an embarrassment and those responsible ie Massey et al , need to be primaried next go round.
At least "democracy" has not been threatened. Hah. No need for embarrassment. This is the way it was designed to work. Voters did not offer much wiggle room, so their own desire for "gridlock" must be accepted ...this time. Which is still a gadzillion times better than last time.
However, I can fault Trump in trimming the original 2024 GOP House majority- due to his own administration poaching. And California for also gaming their now notorious"long counts" for greatest after the fact partisan impact too. Imagine that, all long counts went Democrat?
Plus we have not fully explored the partisan impacts of the CVRA "rotten borough" gerry-mandering population-based districts that are also virtually all "Democrat" too.
Celebrate getting as close as we did this time. Gridlock is still better than a highly destructive continuation of the Democrat status quo and dropping off the near-miss tipping point had they won it all.
Recently wife Michele and I were driving through southeastern Washington and experienced the housing boom in the tri-cities area that includes Kennewick. Here were being built hundreds of mini-Mcmansions, going for about 500k. The summer days we were there the temp was hovering about 105. The winters there are pretty harsh. BTW, Flagstaff can have harsh winters. We visited friends there a year ago in May and there was still snow on the ground. They now board their horses in winter in Phoenix and repair to a condo in Glendale, Az.
If the properties now being marketed as short-term rentals and Air B&Bs were all turned back into rentals here, that's a step. Promote the hotels instead for visitors. And build again the sort of single room occupancy facilities that used to be here, the Carrillo Men's club and so many others, to tuck away the less fortunate who now sleep in the bushes. There is a ton of money in the government "experiencing homelessness" complex, but it is being squandered to keep bureaucrats in their jobs.
My sister is building a new home on her ranch property in Granbury, Texas, similar in size to the horse ranches in Santa Ynez. She already has a small, older home. This new one will be a lovely custom 2,500 sq foot house with all the amenities. The contractor breaks ground in two weeks. Move-in date? April. April 2025. The only permits are for water-related: the septic tank and the new well. Oh, not to forget: Kim only just decided to build the home within the past two weeks! Every time she calls to ask me what I think about this or that, like the exterior brick color (Go for the earth tones to match the landscape), I laugh! I get downright giddy when we discuss the fireplace placement and the laundry room the size of a Santa Bsrbara ADU. It's surreal, as I reflect that her start to finish for a quality home is just the beginning of the permitting process at home in California. Cali's is a crisis of our own making. Is it coincidence that just now my classical music station is playing "Building the Barn" score from the film, "Witness"?
So many places to choose from Bonnie. Wherever someone moves to, hopefully the town of choice doesn't become an area of settling illegal immigrant gangs. If thinking of moving, might consider waiting for the country's occupancy distribution of these new arrivals. When Trump steps in, no doubt many of the illegals will be scattering to new areas. Happy New Year Everybody!
Fomenting a perpetual state of "crisis" does not lead to sound long-range planning. It creates only short-term, knee jerk extortions. Ban the word "crisis" from our civic dialogues. That is one way to put adults back in charge.
Real estate prices are relatively cheap in Northern California, for example in Humboldt County. Unfortunately the job market and infrastructure are lacking.
https://www.zillow.com/humboldt-county-ca/?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_content=12367237912%7C123513172248%7Ckwd-457909343162%7C602786037571%7C&semQue=null&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADhq15dZnPlOEXjU4osuAN_Fz98pw&gclid=Cj0KCQiAst67BhCEARIsAKKdWOkvVP8DvENchQZWqaHMGobP_qZWuQKAG1qVGkpmRdCUxM8NIYTyoO8aAuoDEALw_wcB
WFH?
Sure, but those who are able to work from home tend to earn more and have more housing options, don't you think?
The current "crisis" is wholly created by government policy. We change the government and the crisis is over.
Careful what you wish for - Flagstaff is pretty liberal. In 2020 it was about 61 Blue vs. 37% Red.
Do all liberals over-spend and run up massive future public debt obligations, or are they just "liberal" in other ways?
You know, the classic cover story - I am socially liberal, but fiscally conservative. That could work, if we could ever find it.
At least you didn't bring up unions.
Why didn't you bring them up, TJ?
I'd love to hear a viable way to reduce or eliminate them from you. I agree with you that unions have many negative aspects- especially those operating in government. I'd love to get rid of all of them providing there were enforced regulations in place to do what unions were enacted for in the first place. Had workers had decent protection a century ago we might not be haunted with unions today.
TJ: Have Trump rescind the 1962 executive order that allowed government employee unions at the federal level, and hope the trend catches on at the state and local level. Just like it did in reverse, back in 1962.
Then hold on tight, this will not go down easily as we have handed far too much power over our daily lives to these very same union,s who now own us. It will be ugly and not easy.
Be resilient, be strong and be resourceful. Find work-arounds when faced with government threats. Big Government intends to own every part of our daily lives, so any threats to their power base are intended to punish us first.
We set this up this way. But if is finally choking us. Eg: Tax yourselves if you want your potholes fixed, because all new money goes to fund our own pensions first.
First step it to stop electing compromised officials who make these compromised these decisions in our names. Second step, just like Prop 13, tax revolt. Bring back independent, arm-length bargaining to all government employee negotiations. Voters need to understand the value of renewed independence in our elected officials.
Right now this is a lonely voice going against a very well-oiled and well funded machine. The great irony is we are funding the well-oiled machine to keep doing this to ourselves. Is that a definition of insanity, no matter who said that first.
Thank you. I didn't realize it could be taken away so simply. And I mean mechanically simple - not easy or politically simple.
I read this very interesting article by Ms. Donovan titled "The Housing “Crisis” is Over"
that should be titled "There is a Threat-Crisis In CALI -Time to Move-Out"
I quote from the article "We were going to Flagstaff to find them either a place to build a home or to buy a home. Flagstaff has what they want – skiing –, which we did for three days at 11,500-ft “SnowBowl” just 15 miles from the town of Flagstaff."
https://www.snowbowl.ski/the-mountain/weather-conditions-webcams/
I went through the same process two years ago, left SB and CALI. SnowBowl AZ received only 28 Inches this year and nice little resort but really no snow. If you are really into SKIING and getting away from it all there are better options in Idaho and Utah like SNOWBIRD UT, where I trained, over 400 Inches a year or close-by SNOWBASIN UT> https://www.snowbasin.com/
SCHWEIZER at Sand Point ID is a sleeper with 200 inches a year> https://www.schweitzer.com/
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
Idaho people are friendly and reserved. About as stress-free of a state imaginable.
They Ski but also do off-roading...
Panguitch Utah for Off-Roading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panguitch,_Utah
I'm confused about the notification for 308 W. Montecito street. Last I heard was the owner, Ed St. George had approval for a hotel on the site. But a couple months ago I noticed work going on and now there are two housing unit being built. As of today they look great, almost done. That blue card also mentions 315 Bath street, is that the location for these two buildings? And Bonnie, did you see there are also notices on the chain link fence surround the dirt lot on the corner of Castillo & Montecito streets? It's for more housing, not the proposed hotel annex that already came before ABR. Big thanks to Mr. St. George for building housing on these sites instead of hotels.
Ed had three hotels approved in SB, all now housing.
315 is the address the notice was sent. 308 is where the 6, 2-story ADU's are being built. The two buildings that are almost done is where the brown apartment building parking lot was.
Sorry to use bad language, but F&$* Ed St, George. I watched the ABR meeting today and I can't believe no one on any of the boards and commissions speak out against AB 2097. (no parking for autos is required because it is close to the train station.) (Seriously?!! Who takes the train to work that lives in this area???) As you said, the neighborhood is already impacted with no available parking spots on the streets. WTF?
I appreciate the language :)
Our train isn't a transit for anything but coming to or leaving Santa Barbara.
Across the street from this project, he has another 2-story development again without parking.
Drive by 425 Santa Barbara Street, another project of Ed's without parking. 425 Garden is not his project, yet again no parking.
SB is being taken down.....
Is this wierd? Not if you are a pro-density party member. Who has been pushing this for over 2 decades? You guessed it. It started with smoker toker called Gov. .
Who has been jamming it down the throats of every and district / city in the State.
Are you looking around the State of confusion called Calif.?
See the Daily Tons of Concrete and re-bar that is paving over paradise? Want more? How about the failure of closing down streets that crush business and then taxes?
So let's build failed 15 minute cities, high rise Skinner boxes call living units. Streets that do not work, and emergency paths that fail. Why? To make up the crashed tax base? Sure because the big government idiots that are elected to office have painted themselves into a box with no way out.
Geez Bonnie next time you go on vaca, let me know.....!