Anonymous
By the County of Santa Barbara
The Santa Barbara County Community Services Department has announced that the beaches in Isla Vista will be closed Friday, April 7 through Sunday, April 9 due to the potential for a “Deltopia” event.
The closure is being declared to prevent a re-occurrence of the conditions that resulted from the 2009 Floatopia. The Santa Barbara County Code (Section 26-11) authorizes the Community Services Department to close any County recreation area including beaches.
Following the Floatopia event of 2009, the beaches at Isla Vista were left strewn with trash and debris, including human waste.
This large-scale event with thousands of participants had no provision for the health and well-being of the public, including no facilities for human sanitation or refuse collection. The County of Santa Barbara, therefore acted to close the Isla Vista beaches for similar events since 2010.
The Deltopia event planned for April 7-9, 2023 is not a sanctioned event and there are no approved permits issued. As such, the County Community Services Department will declare the Isla Vista beaches closed to public entry to protect public health and safety and to protect the beach from excessive waste and litter.
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office will enforce the closure.
Yea…Deldopia has kind of lost its Santa Barbara privileges.
Good thing. The trash and pollution was abominable when it use to be Floatopia.
It was Floatopia ONE time. It hasn’t been much of a large party of any kind the last few years. I bet if they just let the beaches stay open so people could enjoy the beautiful weather we’re having, we’d all be just fine.
The whole “Deltopia” thing is no longer a party “tradition” among the students I know. Seems to be just adults and cops carrying on with this boogie man idea. It’s spring break, college aged kids are going to party a bit. Big whoop, nothing new. Put the cops on patrol to keep it from getting too crazy and let the rest of the town carry on and enjoy Sands and Coal Oil Point.