Enter your account data and we will send you a link to reset your password.
To use social login you have to agree with the storage and handling of your data by this website. %privacy_policy%
AcceptHere you'll find all collections you've created before.
COMMENTS
Search Comments By Date
Show Comments for:
Coroner Releases Identity of Man Who Died After Falling from an Isla Vista Cliff
How awful. Every parent's worst nightmare. I believe the cliffs there are about 20-25 feet not 50 feet though just as dangerous.
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
Pipe dream. SB will never approve those projects. Just build in Goleta supported by "subsidized' housing outlook.
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
Ok, so when people stop choosing to work here because they can't afford to live here (which is happening on a wide scale, especially with middle class workers), how do we fill those positions? That is my point here. When young attorneys, teachers, emergency responders, etc decide to work where they can live - not here - then how do we fill those roles with people who can afford to live here?
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
Nobody has a right to live here or 'shouldn't' have to commute. They are CHOOSING to take a job here while realizing the housing costs are high. That is simply how it is. If they don't like it here - move. If there is a need for Teachers, Emergency responders, DA, medical staff, they will fill the positions, and/or find others who are willing to do so - may be lucrative for those folks. How I get? It's called slow growth Goleta/SB.
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
Please try to be mature here, GOLETA. I'm 100% on topic. I just disagree with you. Yes, we DO need those workers for our city to function, but they shouldn't all have to commute. Why would they chose to continue working here? You really want to tell your kids' teachers to move out of town and commute? Emergency responders? Young DAs/Public Defenders? Medical staff? Sorry, but I just don't accept that as a solution. We can leave it at that as I can see you're starting to get how you get.
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
You just want to argue as always - try staying on topic. We need the workers, but SB does not need to give them 'affordable housing' as that is again unrealistic. I want a Ferrari - should the county pay for it? If you cannot afford to live here, consider somewhere else. Commute - very simple.
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
Not a pipe dream if you can accept that homes here can be affordable if subsidized better. We don't need more hotels, we need subsidized housing. Convert existing empty buildings - La Cumbre mall, spots in Paseo Nuevo, etc. No need to build more, just stop turning every existing building down there into hotels or multi million dollar condos for the LA rich to visit once every few months.
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
I wasn't commenting on the article, just your comment: "Please do not comment that we need these workers, if there is a need they will fill the position" I disagree. We DO need workers that can't afford to live here because those who CAN afford to live here are not going to fulfill those duties. Pretty simple.
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
I know several folks who fill those positions who live here? You missed the point of the article, couple moves from NY to SB and finds it hard to find 'affordable housing' - true be that.
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
GOLETA - you missed the point. You say we don't need workers who can't afford to live here. The workers who can't afford to live here (unless they were lucky and have a place now that is affordable) are not replaceable by those who can afford to live here (eg, doctors, lawyers, other high paying positions). We need cops, teachers, maintenance workers, restaurant workers, hotel workers, plumbers, electricians, etc etc. Those types of jobs generally do not pay enough to be able to afford rent or a mortgage in this town.
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
correct. SB needs to absorb some of the housing issue.
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
I think the “affordable housing” concept is a pipe dream as well. We could (and may well do so thanks to Newsom) build out every acre in the SB/Goleta area, thereby recreating LA’s sprawl and degrading the environment and all our quality of life. Water? Yeah, good luck with that. Not working and not GOING to work. Of course workers are needed. That’s not the issue of debate here, and that’s why GoletaLocal said that, anticipating the exact same response that came right away.
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
There are plenty of folks who can perform "cleaning the parks, hotels, restaurants, etc." here in town, or commute here. Doctors, lawyers are going to drop out of college to run a golf course rather than moving to a more affordable community? They have choices. My point is if you plan on living in a very expensive town, plan for it or plan otherwise. We will be fine without folks moving here from NY.
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
"Please do not comment that we need these workers" - We need these workers. How do you plan to keep our parks clean, hotels and restaurants running, streets safe, classes taught, etc etc etc? "if there is a need they will fill the position" - Yeah, so doctors' kids are going to drop out of college to run the golf courses? Lawyers and tech gurus are going to quit their jobs to become teachers and cops? Come on, do tell how you expect all "these workers" who can't afford to live here to be replaced by those who can afford it? This should be interesting. Get your note pads out, folks!
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
We do need affordable housing but developers seem to be the top priority so what we are getting instead is urban sprawl. Look what's happening to Goleta, homes right up against the freeway, packed in dense developments.Montecito and Hope Ranch are always off limits. Affordable housing has been an issue through out SB history. Even Pearl Chase wrote about it. Ground water is disappearing at an alarming rate so the idea to just build and have only 20% barely affordable will ruin what makes SB wonderful. Now it's traffic and sprawl and it is still unaffordable. Employee housing does not work either because the employee does not get the equity built up. Paying people more makes more sense .
White Supremacist Group Displayed Anti-Semitic Banner Over Highway 101 in Santa Barbara
RUBAIYAT - because the pro-Palestinian protests (with some racist and antisemitic outsiders stirring things up) are not the subject of this article.
White Supremacist Group Displayed Anti-Semitic Banner Over Highway 101 in Santa Barbara
Curious.... who disagrees with the statement that these groups should be back in the shadows? Come on, who?
Man Dies After Falling from Isla Vista Cliff
Great points, Henry. These new party-promoters and pay to party things are disastrous and from an old school punk and party guy, "filthy corporate scum." There's no soul anymore. Many of the youth these days are super material and obsessed with "likes" on social media. These types of parties should be banned, outright. I think you're right in that they do draw out of town crowds and encourage stupidity for "likes." BUT.... enough of my old man rant. Kids will always party here. There's truly no way to stop it. Waiting for college aged kids to somehow become "mature" while they're wasted is a lose lose situation. Not gonna happen. So, what to do? 1) Ban the pay to party stuff 2) Consider the suicide nets out of sight (from the street at least) below cliff line behind residences abutting the cliff. 3) Require all cliff side properties to maintain a safe fence 4) Have IVPD patrol the cliffs and beach below to watch for drunk kids near the cliffs 5) Hope kids get the message. Anything else?
Santa Barbara Family Featured in New York Times Article on Affordable House Hunting
Affordable housing in SB is a a farce. Is there affordable housing available in Hope Ranch? Montecito? Malibu? Hawaii? If it were that easy, I would be living in Hope ranch estate paying little to nowhere near what it cost. It is reality. If you don't like it move elsewhere. Please do not comment that we need these workers, if there is a need they will fill the position and pay for it / customers will pay for it - simple economics.
White Supremacist Group Displayed Anti-Semitic Banner Over Highway 101 in Santa Barbara
No mention of the anti-semitism going on in the current demonstrations on our college campuses?