Christine, with the exclamation point!!, I'm responding you comment above, "Have your Mom proofread your posts hon, . . "
It's almost Christmas, why the negativity? How about the Nativity?
Tinker is not retiring any time soon. We are a family owned business and we hope to continue serving our community providing great food and excellent service. We started on December 27, 1987 and it has been a pleasure to serve our community.
If you had only two choices: to live in that hood or commit hari-kari, I'm betting on hari-kari. I mean, I am born and raised in Goleta and I like some rough around my edges, but this is even too much for me.
3 of the Demonteverde properties appear to be for sale: 161, 165 Santa Ana Ave, 341 Santa Rosalia Way.
The bike path is amazing and until you know the routes and how everything connects you won't realize how easy and enjoyable it is to bike around. Do we think that large empty lot is owned by the neighboring nursery?
This is the second time you’ve dumped on Goleta. Maybe keep the walks to Summerland and Montecito, I’m sure there’s plenty more hedges and gates to see there. Authentic communities don’t seem to be your thing.
regarding heritage house, since I was on the architecture team, the choice was permeable pavers or something more natural, and since that gate is for fire access only and it (hopefully) never gets used, it was decided to go with the natural
SB Tamales to Go, from Richard Lambert.
Planes have a schedule that doesn't affect people's sleep! These sonic booms are often in the middle of the night. They disrupt everyone
Superica on Milpas
Time will tell- I haven’t been in there for years as I love The Baker’s Table, so my coffee/baked good/eats are covered. I imagine the huge numbers of “hill people” ( those who do not cook for themselves) in the SYV will take to this immediately, and should the fickle crew not like it, we’ll see changes occur in the menu/pricing
Have your Mom proofread your posts hon, she has a few moments free after writing the checks for your rent, your groceries, your utilities and your past faux pas #vivaislavista
Pony - a coffee shop trying for upscale dining. Overpriced. And now they charge you for a coffee refill- that must cost them 10 cents but charges me $2.70 for half a cup refill.
7/11 at State and Ortega. Installed so the homeless don't sit there!
As Prez Musk is moving his busisnesses (X and SpaceX's headquarters ) out of CA to TX in reaction to Newsome's law regarding Transgender children make him take the rocket launches with him or tax the sh*t out of it.
I agree, it is BS they have to launch in the middle of the night. I was woken up by this last launch too, and the sonic boom with re-entry sounded like the wicked witch landed on top of my tile roof. Launch in the wake time hours!!!
Anyone know where to find the best tamales for Christmas?
Crazy that they're going to demolish the car wash and the panchanga fichera bar (where you have to pay six dollars per song to dance with a lady), for another apartment building. That with the one over at Capitol hardware and the other one by 7-Eleven is going to make an already disastrous running the gauntlet driving down Milpas Street to be an absolute mess. From the 18 wheelers in the middle turn lane to cars to big on the right shoulder, its a hard drive They are truly destroying this area with so much construction already, these things are going to be a nightmare. Not to mention the blockage of Alisos Street bringing massive 18 wheelers and increased traffic down our small residential street now. That was such a poor idea.
Well said, I was sleeping lightly at 3:40-ish this morning when I heard a rumbling sound, then some minutes later by a muffled BOOM. Not nearly as loud as the 5am blast from last week.
I've lived here for four decades and I have loved watching every launch that occurred just after sunset. I'll take 100 of those over these nighttime launches that only Elon gets richer by.
My take is that I’m fine being woken up at 3 am for national security launches. We live near one of the two good launch sites in the country. As some rightly point out, we chose to live here and Vandenberg was here long before me.
I’m less ok with an increase from what was maybe 3 national security or space superiority launches a year historically to twice a week or every day, with the majority being to bolster a private company’s bottom line. I’d vote to ban launches during nighttime hours for purely private for-profit purposes. As far as I’m concerned, shareholders can wait for a daytime launch window. Not trying to debate it, just saying which way my vote would go.
Whether Starlink would be used exclusively for the purposes of US and allies’ defense in a conflict is an important question I wish we knew the answer to.
I’m genuinely curious. For those who are against any restrictions. Imagine one or more launches every night - and not just Elon. Let’s say they’re coming from 10 companies and competing satellite networks or whatever. Maybe Cox is putting one up. Whichever billionaire you hate the most has their own company now too… Soros. There are multiple sonic booms at 3 am every week. I think it would really affect my ability to work during the day. For those who are ok with it, help me get it. Are you in an area where you can hear them, and would bring woken up at 3 am not affect your job performance and overall sanity?
I can see why someone who isn’t affected would take the “screw you I don’t care” position, but hard to see how anyone in my neighborhood wouldn’t think this’ll be a problem if it reaches the hypothetical point I describe. I’ve heard the “I’m getting enjoyment out of all you whiners’ anguish” argument, I’m really trying to get from someone who’s actually affected why we should be ok with this profiteering waking us up every night, if it comes to that.
I also admit that two nighttime wake ups does not a crisis make. But you can see where it could go eventually. We can cross the bridge when we get there I suppose.
I don't know, man, maybe it's you that has his head in the sand. No doubt Elon Musk is a genius at innovation who has brought tremendous products into the world, and he deserves credit for that. But he and his money now have undue influence over our government. He single-handedly killed the funding bill two days ago, and now you have multiple members of Congress saying that he (an unelected tech bro) should be Speaker of the House, second-in-line to the presidency. But hey, the price of eggs, am I right?
You really have to have your head deep into the sand to believe what you just wrote. If you only knew...
It might benefit you to cut back on the tin foil useage bro! Merry Christmas!
We stayed in the Vista Clara Rd property several years ago as an AirBnb (the fancied up section with private pool access). The owner and at least one full-time renter lived in the other parts of the house.
Parking is the nemesis of these apartment projects. It is incredibly expensive and torpedos viability. The state law abandoning this as a requirement actually made housing projects feasible again. And even then, only in some cases here. If we are serious about building housing, the thinking needs to change - even more than it has, due to rising costs. People can only pay so much for rent or you get a community with a bunch of people with trust funds, which is not a community but a club. Also, the City of SB is losing millions of dollars per year on their parking program. Why? Because there is a huge surplus of parking downtown. They built too much. When they finished the Granada garage, the last structure, parking was already on the decline. The Independent even chimed in at the time, saying something like it being a requiem or ode for the car. Things are changing fast. You don't build for yesterday and not even for today. You build for Tomorrow. Same problem with the airport. They built it for yesterday so that today, yesterday's tomorrow, it is a under-built, inadequate, mess. In that case, they didn't build enough. Many people don't want more housing here but what we need is smart housing. We don't want LA traffic or congestion. However, since less parking or no parking also means less cars or no cars with these projects, it actually ends up being less like LA, not more. So the state law may be our friend. It causes shifts in how people live and infrastructure, amenities, i.e. livability, will follow. Let's build a sustainable community. Tomorrow is coming.
