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What questions are residents going to ask Councilmember Friedman about at the Community Meeting being held on Target moving into the Galleria? i.e. Are people planning to ask about more than just Target?
Your Questions for Target Community Meeting
SBCountyLocal
April 8, 2018, 7:01 am
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Why did you accept this location and not work harder to bring a full-sized store to the Hollister Avenue site?
The best question would be, “why are you holding a community meeting now after full approval and start of construction”. Pretty much everyone I speak to, even rabid Target fans, think this is an awful location for this. The whole Macy’s building is just a vacant homeless seating bench waiting for a tenant.
I guess the Council thought they hadn’t done enough to destroy this part of town with huge outscale and overpriced development, they needed to put the nail in the coffin with this parking free disaster.
Because the City is unreasonable…refusing to pay mitigation for the traffic to Goleta as they rightfully should. Goleta should just annex the whole airport and be done with Santa Barbara’s greed.
Monkeyboy, whose greed are you channeling? The airport property is part of the city of Santa Barbara. The city of Goleta cannot simply “annex” it like Putin did the Crimea or Hitler did the Sudetenland. Assuming you are a resident of Goleta I am sorry for them and the future of their democracy.
I am simply addressing the fact that a great location for a Target exists. The fact that it isn’t there is due entirely to SB not taking responsibility for the increased traffic and maintenance it would create and sharing the costs with Goleta.
And no…I live in Santa Barbara…I simply like to point out when people are not being reasonable regardless of how it affects me or my city personally.
It would seem that, given all the options, the current location for the Target mini-store is the best location. Other than the “parking nightmare” theorists losing their marbles over basically nothing, there’s not a better place to put this store. Most people would agree that Goleta blew it by not working with the folks at Target, and they will definitely regret the day when other national chains, such as Walmart, give Goleta the ol’ “sorry, not worth it.” If you want a TRUE parking nightmare…..go to any TJs!! Combat parking is what I call it.
The Honorable Judge Rickard annexed it to the city way back when by running SB city limits out in the ocean and back so we could call it our own. That’s why it’s named after him and there has since been legislation that makes this type of thing a big no no.
How much $$$ did the architect, property owner and contractor donate to your and other Councilmembers campaigns?