••• The George Floyd mural on Eos Lounge’s building has been painted over; “another mural is in the works, and the city will be involved in the process this time around.” —KEYT
••• San Marcos Growers nursery, which opened in 1979, will close at the end of 2025: “The nursery has always been on leased land, and in early 2023, Santa Barbara County, under pressure to build more affordable housing units, asked the Hodges family, who own the land, if they would be willing to sell the property for housing. In June 2023 the agreement was made to close the nursery by the end of 2025, to give the business time to wind down and its nearly 50 employees time to find new jobs.” —Los Angeles Times
••• “This week, crews began to demolish what was left of a home on Las Alturas Road in Santa Barbara that started to slide down a hillside last May. Demolition crews say the house was still full of furniture, clothing, and other items because the family wasn’t able to safely enter and gather their possessions. But in the rubble, workers have found items they hope to return to the family.” —KSBY (photo by J.)
••• More on the proposed plan to totally redo the Sandpiper Golf Club. —Independent
••• Heal the Ocean appealed the Rosewood Miramar Beach expansion’s approval to the [California Coastal Commission], claiming “that the planned affordable housing apartments ‘contribute to risks of flooding from sea level rise and degradation of wetland and ocean water quality from stormwater runoff.’ The appeal […] also states that the proposed affordable housing units are at risk of mudslides and inundation from tsunamis and long-term sea level rise.” —Noozhawk
••• During the storm on Christmas Eve, “The water tower from the Nazi POW camp on the Gaviota Coast finally gave in to years of weather and wind, and it collapsed.” —Noozhawk
••• There’s a fundraising drive to restore the whale mural on Moby Dick restaurant, created in 1991 by artist Beth Amine without the restaurant’s involvement. —KEYT
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Warner is the gift horse that this area loves to look in right the mouth, and punch…
Get out of his way and let him build the new Sandpiper! This project is a dream-come-true for the area. Tens’ of thousands of people will come here just to play the new course and hundreds of thousands will go elsewhere if its gone. Yes, many tourist and groups choose their destination based on golf. When we have none, (Sandpiper gone, Glen Annie gone) they will go to places that offer what they want. And that’s not $30 burritos and a walk down a urine soaked, homeless ridden, dilapidated street with tee-shirts shops and chain stores and drunk college students.
Well said! So true!
The California Coastal Commission is TRASH
I found the bit on the Rosewood Miramar laughable- just yesterday I read on Noozhawk, a opinion piece by Michael Rattray, “Local Natural Gas seeps Belie Claims of Man-Made Threats to Climate”- and I found this amazing bit of published science ( 3 UCSB professorsJR Boles/Bruce Luyendyk & author emeritus professor Ira Leifer )…. Please read, then RE-READ the last paragraph!
“Managed retreat” has been a consistent mantra that says we must begin retreating from Goleta Beach Park immediately because of dire sea-level rise.
The county prepared a final environmental impact report (2.0) in 2014, with the premise that sea-level rise would range 8 inches higher than the 2000 levels by 2030, 19 inches by 2050 and close to 5-6 feet by 2100.
Millions of taxpayer dollars went into this initiative but it was never truly implemented (over time some of the utilities and infrastructure have been removed or replaced).
Those who still use the park know of its neglect, which was more a reflection of the County Parks Division’s low maintenance budgets (which have been restored and major improvements are ongoing).
As for sea-level rise, the NOAA tides website has measured the Santa Barbara Bouy (from 1973 to 2023) at 1.15 millimeters a year. That’s 2.3 inches over 50 years!
I like in summerkan and I drive by the old Mackenzie market just now. Oh my goodness it’s gone!
There is nothing there. I guess they are building high end condominiums there? That is the rummer around here. Is it for sure that a new restaurant is opening or could the rummer about high end condos be true??
T.
Word on the street is that the new mural will be Mayor Rouse beating up an illegal taco vendor – hence the city involvement.