••• Carpinteria’s Eye of the Day Garden Design Center is moving; the new location has yet to be announced. The shop is having a big sale May 1-31 (Monday through Saturday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.). No holds or returns.
••• Got a yen for yarn? The Knit Shop is opening in Domecíl’s old space at Victoria Court. It’s planning on hosting classes, too: knitting sweaters, knitting for kids, fixing mistakes, and more. UPDATE: It’s shooting for May.
••• Read this all the way through if you love the unspoiled beauty of the Gaviota Coast: the Gaviota Coast Conservancy is rallying opposition to “the El Capitan Canyon Resort ‘Area F1-F2’ Expansion Project [which] includes two development areas that are squarely within the Critical Viewshed Corridor Overlay that the Gaviota Coast Plan established to protect nearfield views of the mountains and ocean from Highway 101. The proposed Project includes 22 ‘RV Cabins,’ 17 yurts, a 1,200-square-foot campground support building, an 1,800-square-foot camper services building, a 2,700-square-foot camper services barn, and a 592-square-foot comfort station, two swimming pools, new roadway infrastructure, and new night lighting. If built, the Project would represent the most significant visual change to the Gaviota Coast viewshed in decades. The Area F1-F2 Expansion Project was partially approved back in 2010. The Resort’s prior owner never completed the Central Board of Architectural Review process however, and the Coastal Development Permit that issued in 2011 expired in 2013 by operation of the County’s Coastal Zoning Ordinance. Now the Resort’s new owner, SUN Communities, Inc., has tried to resurrect this Project without applying for a new CDP. This move would enable them to skirt compliance with the Gaviota Coast Plan, which took effect in 2018, including heightened protections applicable within the CVCO.” The matter goes before the county Planning Commission on April 24. “Emails to the Planning Commission should be sent to [email protected] by noon on Monday, April 22.”
••• Opera Santa Barbara‘s 2024-2025 season consists of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment.
••• The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced that its 2025 dates will be February 4-15. “Passes to the festival will go on sale in August at 25 percent off. The festival lineup and schedule will be announced January, 2025.”
••• I finally made it to antiquarian Lee Stanton‘s “stash” shop in Montecito’s Upper Village. Such beautiful, interesting things!
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Eye of the Day has lots of product stacking up at Bodega- besides the decor for Priedite #enquiringminds
We will miss Eye of the Day, terribly. Last summer I chatted with its owner, Brent Freitas, who said container shipping prices have soared in multiples since covid, and was looking to Los Alamos, where his daughter (the storied Daisy Ryan, of Bell’s) lives and works. But who knows what will happen?
Yay for a new knitting shop! I’m told the rents around Victoria Court are reasonable so hopefully they got a good lease.