Posting this more as an FYI - not to get in the middle of the above conversation… The Ellwood will serve until 10pm in the dining room with the bar open later.
$4.49 Montecito Shores with neighbors above where you can hear every step and breath ? Good luck
Unlike her restaurants, will the Pickleball social club be inclusive for everyone?
Do we really need another grossly overpriced "super" market? Erewhon makes Lazy Acres look like Walmart.
I wasn't born here, but the freeway is not actually the divider according to maps from Santa Barbara County as well as the Montecito Fire District. These boundaries are also reflected in GIS data and any online mapping tool. Butterfly Beach, Coral Casino, etc, are all in Montecito and south of the 101. Ironically, neither the Montecito Club nor Coast Village Road are actually in Montecito, but rather, in the city of Santa Barbara. However, people accept them as Montecito in practice, just like this new development will be. Conversely, the "Santa Barbara Cemetery" is actually in Montecito, in spite of the name and being South of the 101.
I am old enough to remember a time when learning about something new took some effort. Visiting a library, looking through the card catalog, finding the corresponding book on the subject you wanted to learn about. Reading it. It took some effort. The inter-webs and sites like Google have made learning so incredibly easy, that it astounds me when I see questions posed that could be answered in seconds with the same fingers and keyboards used to ask them.
key word- 'if'...
let's see some pix of the drupes and arils-- what r u talking about??
Hi Erik, Thanks for the shout out to Santa Barbara Beautiful. I'm a Santa Barbara Beautiful board member and wanted to let you and cathy h know that David Gress, Santa Barbara Beautiful board member (25 years) was City Arborist of the City of Santa Barbara (8 years), takes the photos and writes the "Tree of the Month" articles. The archive of 100+ articles can be found on the Santa Barbara Beautiful website at https://sbbeautiful.org/category/tree-of-the-month/ He wraps up each article with locations around town where mature examples of each tree can be found.
Am I the only one who thinks it odd that they are building a new one-story retail building in a city supposedly starved for housing? One or two floors of housing, affordable or otherwise, would fit here well. To solve the housing crisis we are going to have to get rid of the housing/retail apartheid mindset. This looks like another opportunity lost. P.S, I don't think you are an asshole either!
Those articles are created by Santa Barbara Beautiful, and I can ask whether the organization will allow me to regularly run one of their photos. (I'm afraid I don't have the bandwidth to go take a photo myself.) In the meantime, you can always see a bunch of photos—and read much more about the trees—by clicking through to the Edhat article.
Is there anyway to post a photo along with the decription of the tree for the month. Then we can identify them around town. Thank you or it could be a treasure hunt???
Same here sister! I'm healthier cooking my own meals for the family:)
The Glutton looks like the perfect part time job for a hobo/homeless resident- similar to a scooter or bike you pick up & leave where you want! Keep them moving and cleaning at the same time! Brilliant
J, if the freeway is the cutoff, would you then agree that Rosewood and the esteemed Coral Casino are also Montecito Pretenders?
Holy cow, they did a stellar turnaround at Via Los Santos, it was a time capsule that needed a thorough scrubbing. Great for a family with kids who need to burn off energy running up and down all those stairs.
It's on the side of the Granada mural (Plazza Granada)
Oh my gosh, I just realized they haven't updated their pdf highlights since 2019!! No wonder you're frustrated! That information is a matter of public record, and I'm sure something similar to that document is created every year. You may need to make a public records act request.
As an ex-SBUSD trustee, I'm happy to chime in on the property tax division between the elementary feeder districts and SB Unified. You can see what overall property taxes are collected and where they go every year at the auditor-controller's property tax highlights pdf link: https://www.countyofsb.org/316/Property-Tax. It doesn't include the formulas, though, and the elementary/secondary division is based on historical practices and old and new state school funding laws. It would probably take an archivist and accountant to get to the original whys. It was a little easier to see in our accounting before Santa Barbara became a unified district in 2011 instead of an elementary and secondary district governed by one board. At that time, the elementary districts received a greater percentage of the property taxes in a given district boundary--perhaps because they are historically K-8 districts even though they've never served students above 6th grade? I don't know. If you get an accommodating employee at the auditor-controller's office, they'll be able to tell you the percentage that goes to each district overall and then apply that formula to your home's property tax.
The sad truth, none of these vegan restaurants were very good. When Oliver's first opened it was great, and then steadily went down hill year after year until we stopped going. The best plant based food in Santa Barbara is at the Miramar resort. In my opinion Chef Massimo is the best plant based chef in California but very expensive. Would love if he opened a more casual vegan restaurant in town.
The latest images in the article I find confusing from prior presentations to the City and further confusing as the building layout is rotated near 180 degrees. The perspective view also seems to hide the second floor to the east on Yanonali. The prior siteline article from April 2023 was much easier to digest.
Nope, but thanks for guessing!
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