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Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network is Experiencing a Pelican Event
Correct, now is the time to donate $$$
Real Estate Broker Sentenced for Embezzlement, Faces $2 Million in Fines and Restitution
District Attorney John T. Savrnoch Should have sought more jail time. This was a massive theft and 30 days of jail doesn’t fit the crime. Not much of a deterrent to others who might be tempted to duplicate his crime.
Dates for Board of Supervisors Housing Element Rezone Hearings Announced
By the way, the property owners are pretty darn eager to build too! You can't just blame politicians; that's so simplistic. Property rights -- they're usually even more popular with conservatives than liberals. https://www.noozhawk.com/orchard-site-near-old-town-goleta-could-see-major-development/
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network is Experiencing a Pelican Event
Glad to see this posted on edhat. It's also baby wildlife season, so Wildlife Care Network is overloaded. I hope more of us can support them and the animals at this time.
Reckless Driver Arrested Following Sheriff Pursuit and Collision on Highway 154
Thanks for a thoughtful detour, you got me thinking. https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/93486/is-attempted-manslaughter-a-real-crime
Cachuma Lake on Sunday
I hear ya. But remember that getting kids and families outdoors to catch their first fish is a great thing, and the “science” behind the agencies’ decision isn’t just wrong, it’s actually non-existent. The reservoir itself isn’t natural either.
Three Penguin Chicks Hatch at the Santa Barbara Zoo, the first since 2018
Idiots who break out into a chorus of "Born Free" every time a zoo is mentioned seem to have no clue about how much zoos do to preserve endangered wildlife and raise awareness of how we are destroying the natural world, dooming many animals to short, miserable lives in the wild.
Cachuma Lake on Sunday
And people who actually like nature are thankful.
Real Estate Broker Sentenced for Embezzlement, Faces $2 Million in Fines and Restitution
Yuck. Realtors are not exactly pillars of society, and this dude is no exception. They'll be whoever you want them to be, to get your money. When you can't hack it in the actual professional world, you can always become a real estate agent!
Cachuma Lake on Sunday
The lake was nice on Sunday. Beautiful weekend up there. The Nature Center Trout Derby didn’t get to stock trout this year, however. They were shafted by the CA DFW and US Fish and Wildlife managers who apparently feel that stocked trout can get washed over the spillway and interbreed with native steelhead.
Three Penguin Chicks Hatch at the Santa Barbara Zoo, the first since 2018
Agreed, Zoos are 'for profit' animal prisons.
Volunteers and Members of the Commercial Fishing Community Clear Lobster Traps from Local Beaches
Thank you for cleaning up our beaches! Happy to see the actual fisherman out there helping too. Keep it up!!
Assault Near Upper State Street
...all those apartments on Broadmoor and Richland USED to be rented out to paying renters of Santa Barbara.... The SB Housing Authority took them all over and now they are subsidized half-way houses for parolees from all over the State, recovering drug and alcohol abusers and housing for homeless... To say that Northside neighborhood demographic has changed is an understatement.
Three Penguin Chicks Hatch at the Santa Barbara Zoo, the first since 2018
Horrible news. Those chicks should be born in and remain in the wild, not imprisoned for life.
Reckless Driver Arrested Following Sheriff Pursuit and Collision on Highway 154
Why is this kind of potentially lethal reckless driving a misdemeanor, and not felony? It's akin to attempted manslaughter.
Dates for Board of Supervisors Housing Element Rezone Hearings Announced
Well I’d say this - why keep building? Let the market do its thing. If someone can’t afford a place to live here where they work, or where they wanna live after college, or whatever … then they will have to decide the pluses and minuses of their choice of where they live and work. There are A LOT of other places to live besides Santa Barbara. Let’s not ruin it. Who cares if real estate sales are stagnant because there’s no inventory? So what? You could repeal Prop 13 if you wanted to liberate a lot of inventory for the realtors to feast upon, but that’s probably not going to happen. There’s no “solving it” through building for the masses. That’s a recipe to ruin. Remember what Newsom is next time you vote.
Dates for Board of Supervisors Housing Element Rezone Hearings Announced
You're right to mention the Governor because these are state mandates, some passed by voters, but I really don't think Newsom cares much about Goleta. There are at least 5 new housing laws on the books in the last few years because the housing crisis in CA cannot be ignored by responsible lawmakers anymore. Only 15% (!) - which is down from 27% in 2018 - of Californians can afford the median priced home. Homelessness has gone up nearly 40% since then, and more than half of all CA renters spend over a third of their income on rent. Here in SB the real estate market is operating at a trickle because no one is moving and until recently no one was building. It's a big ugly problem and kudos and best of luck to those trying to solve it. In the 44 years I have lived here it has always been changing, but much slower than other parts of the state, and I love living near open spaces and farms too, but we can't pretend we're so special as to have no role to play in helping with the housing crisis. Newsom's concern is the state, not individual communities. Our County gov has taken the easy route of dumping most of its mandated new housing projects into the abundant open spaces of Goleta. I don't know the numbers but I'm sure Goleta is a lot further in meeting its goal than SB city, which has tried to use small projects dotted around, and some grander schemes are in the works but none even come close to Goleta's increases. What about Montecito? What about Carp? I think they should share the burden, too. What about all the land owned by churches (hey Pope! Over here!), schools and universities? Those are now eligible for 100% affordable housing projects. Like I said it's a big ol' ugly mess of a problem and I haven't even mentioned rising costs of building or home insurance. It will take a lot of players to help solve it.
Assault Near Upper State Street
2 Victims.
Dates for Board of Supervisors Housing Element Rezone Hearings Announced
Couldn’t agree more. he wants to build the hell outta Goleta - what a putz.
Santa Barbara County Supervisors Punt On Cannabis Odor Control
Agree with Nelson - no more studies, consultants, planning meetings. Sh-t or get off the pot. Make a decision. So what if the growers don’t want to didn’t the money on expensive scrubbers. Tell them they have to. If they go out of business so be it. Folks deserve to be able to breathe clean air that doesn’t smell like skunk weed.