CityofSantaBarbaraBy the City of Santa Barbara
Sweeping and pressure washing in the street is scheduled as follows:
- Monday, August 15th 1200-900 Blocks (Victoria to Canon Perdido)
- Tuesday, August 16th 800-600 Blocks (Canon Perdido to Cota)
- Wednesday, August 17th 500-300 Blocks (Cota to 101)
Time: 1:30 AM – 10:00 AM
To enable thorough cleaning of curbs and gutter areas, please remove all portable items from the street by 1:00 AM on the night your block is scheduled to be cleaned. Pressure washing will be complete by 10:00 each morning.
If your on-street facility has a platform that is not portable, please sweep around the outside of the facility, clean all debris from under the platform, and dispose of it off-site prior to your block’s scheduled cleaning. Crews will pressure wash around your platform.
The City is not responsible for damage to items or platforms left in the street during deep cleaning.
What will they do about the rats and mice? These parklets need to go now. They are hideous and a clear threat to public health.
They already charge the business owners one of the nations highest sales tax rates as well as a pretty stiff hotel tax. They also impose an excessively costly and subjective permitting process with confounding requirements that are interpreted differently each time a different city official applies them which has a tendency to financially cripple businesses before they can even open. This is why so many state street properties in this area are unoccupied, but it also means the state street businesses you mention are already paying the city a fortune
$100 psf per month? Tell us you know nothing about real estate, economics or geometry for that matter, without telling us know nothing?
Right, $100 a ft. per year, not month. Make it NNN as well… Its public property, its not the business owners. Make them pay for the use or find another business that doesn’t use public resources for private profits while employing low wage labor that requires social services and public aide to survive.
Not linear. 100 a sqft per year NNN. I know its a hard one for a young commercial agent working for their dad, but sales tax is charged to the customers, not the business. The businesses can absorb the costs, but they dont. They charge the customer.
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Now let’s talk about the real costs of low wage, low skill labor that is being employed by these restaurants. The actual costs to society of having low wage, unskilled staff that are often paid in cash + the costs to society of these underpaid workers who require social programs and aide just to survive? The fact that we subside these businesses with social programs that give their employees free food, free healthcare, rental subsidies. etc. All while we as a government look the other way so that these “businesses” can employ undocumented people at very, very low wages…
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So tell me why the citizens of SB should subsidize business owners with both labor and property while allowing the owners of said property to write-off all most costs while they pay property taxes based on 50year old valuations?
Wow, insults! Always a sign the discussion isn’t going your way when you feel the need to jab at someone. So tell me, with the business literally passing on ALL costs to their customers, sales tax included as you point out, what makes you think they also won’t pass on the added costs for this $100 per square foot? “Now let’s talk about the real costs of low wage….” (try’s to change subject to an unrelated matter so people don’t notice I don’t know what I’m talking about). And your final question was answered previously with the sales tax, but also with increased employment (regardless of whether you think those employees are getting paid enough or not). The final question also shows a real lack of understanding in our tax code – ALL businesses get to write off their expenses, that’s how it works.