••• The Calle Real Center in Goleta is getting a makeover (rendering above): “The plans call for new facades, with wood replacing the current Mediterranean-style and white stucco. There will be new signage and reduced parking with more open space areas, including parks for play and recreation, and increased connectivity between the two sides of Calle Real. […] The idea is to create spaces for outdoor dining, games and recreation, along with nighttime activities that encourage guests to linger.” —Noozhawk
••• “Friends who work in the local healthcare industry have been talking about Sansum Clinic getting closer to a buyout deal,” reported Edhat on Thursday. Sansum made the announcement yesterday, and the Independent got the interview with CEO Kurt Ransohoff: “Sansum to Be Acquired by Sutter Health […] ‘Strategic Partnership’ Joins NorCal Giant with Biggest Medical Clinic in Santa Barbara County [….] Ransohoff stated that Sutter would effectively become Sansum’s new owner, though Sansum, he added, would continue to manage itself.” The article has much more about the challenges Sansum faces and the benefits of the merger.
••• Homework may no longer be graded in the Santa Barbara Unified School District, according to a series of tweets by @SB_Updater. UPDATE: @SB_Updater sent over a clarification: “My wording on my original tweet wasn’t super clear, in actuality their suggestion is teachers will grade homework, but the homework grading won’t count towards the course’s overall grade, and homework would not be required.”
Currently in a “grading for equity'” zoom by SBUSD where a paid outside consultant is telling parents how unfair the current A-F grading scheme is. They are not recording this or offering this info to other Santa Barbara School District Parents who couldn’t make the zoom.
— SB_Updater (@SB_Updater) May 3, 2023
••• “A 70,594-square-foot industrial warehouse with 60,939 square feet of landscaping, 102 parking spaces and six loading zones” is proposed for the 11.71-acre site of the former West Wind Drive-In in Goleta. —Santa Barbara News-Press
••• Nashville songwriter Shane McAnally and his husband, Michael McAnally Baum, were the recent buyers of a $13.5 million Hope Ranch house. —Dirt
••• “UC Santa Barbara will be displaying a Daedalum Luminarium” this weekend (May 5-7). “A luminarium is a sculpture that uses natural light and is ‘made with a very thin PVC that’s less than half a millimeter thin, glued together to make these domed-in tunnels of color,’ said Ashanti, a Luminaria manager.” It’s open to the public and free. —Independent
••• “Santa Barbara County must conduct an environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act before moving ahead with its controversial Hot Springs trailhead parking project, Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle ruled on Wednesday.” —Noozhawk
••• “The City of Santa Barbara unanimously voted to extend its contract with bike share provider BCycle for another three years.” —Independent
••• The Santa Barbara Parks & Recreation Department wants to raise a bunch of fees, most of which seem reasonable. Two stand out, however: first, there’s “a proposal to increase the annual pickleball and tennis participation fees to $139 from $75.” And “the city is also proposing significant fee increases for tree removal requests. […] The cost of a permit to remove a street tree would jump to $325 from $75 and a setback tree to $125 from $75. […] The cost to appeal a tree removal would skyrocket, to $845 from $105.” That’s not a typo. —Noozhawk
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