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Come swell or high water View of site looking east toward Rincon Point.
Architect to test city appetite for bluffs development BY PETER DUGRÉ
Architect Barton Myers has sent notice that an application to build an office and residences in two lots east of Viola Fields is imminent. The Toro Canyon Road resident and owner of Barton Myers & Associates distributed an informal update to city council members and media in January providing some detail on a project called Punto de Vista that would see the current S&S Seeds building demolished and an office building and several residences constructed on 7.5 acres at 6155 and 6175 Carpinteria Ave. Carpinteria Community Development Director Jackie Campbell said a completed application for the project has not hit her desk. Myers addressed a joint meeting of the city council and planning commission in November 2013, proposing a 14,000-square-foot office building and 18 residences at the empty lot adjacent to S&S Seeds, but has since expanded plans to include both lots. “It was a breakthrough getting the two sites together,” Myers said. The area is zoned as an Industrial Research Park, a designation that could allow some mixed-use development, but city planners tepidly received the residence-heavy concept. Currently, the area known to city planners as Bluffs II is developed completely in office buildings. In a recent phone conversation, Myers, an acclaimed architect and recipient of numerous national awards over a career spanning back to the 1960s, called the updated plan “more of a campus” and said he hopes to make a gem of a project at “the last prominent really
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Concept with both 6155 and 6175 Carpinteria Avenue together.
DAVID POWDRELL
Big waves and sunny skies rendezvoused in Carpinteria early this week to create a crowdworthy spectacle at Jelly Bowl on Feb. 9. All the regulars turned out to mull over the big question: Paddle out or simply enjoy the warm sun and the bird’s eye view of impressive surf? Photographer David Powdrell captured the meeting of the minds from across the railroad tracks.
Opt-out issue at the forefront of vaccination debate BY DALE MYERS
Following an outbreak of measles in December of 2014 that reportedly began with a group of unvaccinated people visiting Disneyland and has now spread to 17 states, parents nationwide are advocating that schoolage children not be allowed to opt-out of vaccinations in order to prevent contaminating others. Vaccinepreventable diseases, such as measles and pertussis, are seen as a serious threat in elementary schools in particular. In fact, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department has reported 85 cases of pertussis this year, with 36 occurring in schools and the death of an infant due to pertussis. The spread of pertussis, aka whooping cough, has been linked to a high number of parents that chose to opt-out of vaccinations. California law requires children entering kindergarten to be fully vaccinated against a number of diseases, but the law makes an exception for parents declining vaccines on personal or religious grounds, and California is one of only 20 states that allow personal-belief exemptions. In 2012, California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation requiring parents who exclude their children from immunization requirements to submit a signed statement that they received information about risks
“Measles is one of the most communicable diseases. Those who get vaccinated protect themselves, their children and their community from diseases that spread.”
––Susan Klein-Rothschild, Santa Barbara County Public Health Department
and benefits of vaccines. However, despite warnings from health-care professionals that not immunizing children because of personal beliefs can put entire communities at risk, many parents still choose to optout because of religious beliefs as well as those who believe there is a link between vaccinations and autism, despite a 2004 report by the Institute of Medicine that concluded there is no link between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.
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