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Guest Editorial

Montecito Miscellany

Bob Hazard on why widening of the 101 is essential for our community to function, and should happen as soon as possible Jeff Bridges receives honor; Jeremy Harper’s painting; Montecito Club to open in March; Doyle Hollister’s memories; Revels Christmas show; Epicurean Santa Barbara fundraiser; ETC’s production; Rescue Mission Christmas Feast; Orthopedic Institute welcomes Christian Guier; Santa Barbara Sings! concert; Katy Perry bids on beau; Steven Sharpe lands new role; George Lucas tops Forbes list; sightings

Letters to the Editor

Gillian Christie writes in to let us know a few of her staff’s favorite things

10 This Week in Montecito

A look at the next two weeks worth of local events, including NYE parties, a beekeeping lecture, An Evening of Remembrance, and more

12 Village Beat

2018 was a monumental year for Montecito; Kelly Mahan Herrick takes a look back and recounts big moments in our town’s year

Seen Around Town

Casa del Herrero annual docent party and the American Institute of Architects gala

16 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant wonders why clothing is such a necessity

18 Spirituality Matters

Meditation sampler series at DiviniTree; Darren Marc hosts two prayer and meditation sessions; NYE and January events; walk of remembrance; “Manifest Your Spiritual Partner” party

24 On Entertainment

Lit Moon Theatre’s first-ever reunion show; five questions with Bryan Titus; New Year’s Eve options; annual New Year’s Eve Pops show; Brew Year’s Eve; Ventura Improv Company; Boogie Knights and The Spazmatics return to Chumash Casino

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Guest Editorial

by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an associate editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club.

All I Want for Christmas is a Wider 101

he Highway 101 corridor between the Ventura County Line and Santa Barbara is by far the most heavily traveled roadway in Santa Barbara County. Traffic estimates are that by 2020, some 100,000 cars and trucks will pass through Montecito every day. Many of these re-route through local streets, primarily on either the North Jameson frontage road or up Sheffield to East Valley, across East Valley to Hot Springs and down Hot Springs to re-enter the 101. In the widening plan, there are no new overpasses planned for either the San Ysidro Road or Olive Mill Road interchanges. Caltrans notes that once the widening project is completed, the Montecito community cannot expect any future major improvements to the 101 for the foreseeable future. That means that the San Ysidro 101 overpass and two Olive Mill overpasses, one a southbound on-ramp, just past the Montecito Inn, and the other an Olive Mill overpass to the Biltmore and Butterfly Beach, both built in 1956, will be 70 years old by the time of the widening in 2025, but will be over 100 years old by the time they are next considered for replacement. The story of the 101 widening from the Milpas Interchange in Santa Barbara to Mussel Shoals and the Ventura County line represents a study in Caltrans engineering, political intrigue, permitting leverage, and negotiated funding. Phase 1. Widening of the 101 from the Milpas interchange to Hot Springs Road (2012-2015); Project Cost: $53 million, including the Montecito roundabout. Funding: fully funded by the Regional Improvement Program (RIP) and Measure D. Unfortunately, the Milpas to Hot Springs widening included closure of the southbound 101 entrance ramp at the Cabrillo Boulevard interchange, diverting East and West Beach traffic through Coast Village Road to enter the southbound

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DeMille Goes to the Dude

ontecito actor and all-around nice guy Jeff Bridges will add a Golden Globe to his many awards, including an Oscar, when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association showcases his life and illustrious career at the 76th annual gala at the Hilton in Beverly Hills next month. Jeff, 69, who is receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award, is being praised for starring in films, including Crazy Heart, True Grit, Hell or High water, and the Big Lebowski, which became a cult classic thanks to his nonchalant knit-sweater wearing role. He won a Globe in 2010 for his role in Crazy Heart, when he remarked at the time during his acceptance speech about “chipping away” at his under appreciated status.

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(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27 Italian Conversation Group The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System hosts an Italian conversation group for those who would like to practice their Italian language conversation skills and meet others in the community who speak Italian. Both native speakers and those who learned Italian as a second or foreign language will participate, and new members are always welcome. When: 12:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics. When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29 Fishermen’s Market Every Saturday, get fresh fish and shellfish at unbeatable prices straight from local fishermen on the city pier next to Brophy’s restaurant. Buy fish whole or have it cleaned and filleted to order. Rockfish, lingcod, black cod, live rock crab, abalone, sea urchin (uni), and more are available weekly, rain or shine. When: 6 am Where: Harbor Way Info: www.cfsb.info/sat MONDAY, DECEMBER 31 New Year’s Eve Pops Concert The Santa Barbara Symphony continues its beloved tradition of New Year’s Eve Pops, this year featuring the magic of the music from Motown, with “Dancing in

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the Streets: The Music of Motown and More, A Symphonic Tribute to Motown” at the historic Granada Theatre. Bob Bernhardt returns as guest conductor for this festive New Year’s Eve tradition. This year the musical celebration also features the soulful vocals of three talented artists, American Idol finalist Michael Lynche, Broadway veteran Chester Gregory, and New York City-based vocalist and songwriter Shayna Steele. These talented vocalists will perform authentic arrangements and popular favorites including “Dancing in the Street,” “Let’s Groove Tonight,” and “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours,” channeling all the great Motown artists like Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, and more! Get your groove on and ring in the New Year with the Santa Barbara Symphony’s New Year’s Eve Pops, guaranteed to get you “Dancing in the Street”! When: 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm Where: The Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street Tickets: $49-$159 Info: (805) 899-2222 Roaring ‘20s NYE Party The Biltmore Resort hosts a Roaring ‘20s Party with DJ Darla Bea; costumes encouraged! When: 10 pm to 2 pm Where: Ty Lounge, 1260 Channel Drive Cost: $90 cover at the door TUESDAY, JANUARY 1 All Libraries Closed Central, Eastside, Carpinteria, Montecito, Solvang, and Buellton libraries closed for New Year’s Day THURSDAY, JANUARY 3 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: a new single family home and attached garage on Lilac Lane; a remodel and addition on Juan Crespi; and a new home, art studio, pool pavilion, and garage on Hot Springs Road. When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu

Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 pm to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome. When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, JANUARY 4 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics. When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SUNDAY, JANUARY 6 Beekeeping Lecture Jim Rice, co-founder of the Lompoc Valley Beekeepers Association and a UCCE Certified Master Gardener, presents a lecture at the Neal Taylor Nature Center at Cachuma Lake When: 2 pm to 4 pm Where: 2265 Highway #154 Cost: free with $10 parking admission per vehicle Info: Julie@clnaturecenter.org MONDAY, JANUARY 7 Students Return to School Montecito Union and Cold Spring School students return to class after an extended break TUESDAY, JANUARY 8 Montecito Association Annual Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito. Today the Annual Meeting will be followed by the monthly meeting. When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9 Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker

“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. “ – Mary Ellen Chase

When: 1 pm to 2:45 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road After School at Montecito Library Come play on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month; activities include tech toys, arts and crafts, Legos, and more. Children under the age of 8 must have an adult present. When: 3 to 4:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Raising our Light: An Evening of Remembrance in Montecito The 1/9 Debris Flow and Thomas Fire Anniversary Planning Committee made up of community partners will host a remembrance event this evening. All community members are invited to a walk of remembrance starting at Lower Manning Park with a short program leading into a candlelit processional down San Ysidro Road and ending at All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church. People will start assembling at Lower Manning Park at 6 pm with a program to begin at 6:30 pm. The walk is estimated to be 15-25 minutes. Shuttles will be available to transport community members to and from Lower Manning Park and other designated sites in Montecito starting at 5:30 pm. Flameless candles will be available prior to the event and can be picked up at designated locations and will be made available at the park prior to the walk. The remembrance event will conclude with a bell ceremony and a cup of soup at All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 83 Eucalyptus Lane. This event is for everyone in the community. When: 6:30 to 8:30 pm Where: Lower Manning Park, ending at All Saints-by-the-Sea THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAY, JANUARY 11 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics. When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 •MJ 27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

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The Year in Review 2018

Montecito endured catastrophic flooding and debris flow following a strong rainstorm in the early morning hours of January 9, 2018

t is more than obvious that 2018 was a pivotal year for Montecito and its residents. The first week of the year, we were recovering from the Thomas Fire, which weeks earlier had suffocated Montecito and Santa Barbara in smoke and ash while scorching nearly 282,000 acres from Ventura to Santa Barbara, including ten structures in Montecito. In the early morning hours of January 9, 2018, heavy rain caused multiple debris flows along the creek channels in Montecito. One of those caused the failure of a natural gas line that runs along East Mountain Drive; a massive explosion caused several homes to catch fire, lighting up the night sky and awakening many residents. Montecito Creek, which runs behind homes on Olive Mill Road and Hot Springs Road, overflowed, causing homes to come loose from their foundations and sending massive boulders and debris down Olive Mill Road to the ocean. Mud and debris made its way onto Coast Village Road, sending abandoned cars crashing into the front of Montecito Inn, and damaging several commercial buildings. The debris also overtook Highway 101, causing drivers who were evacuating to turn around on the freeway, searching for higher ground. Several of those drivers abandoned their vehicles and traversed on foot up the freeway embankments. Montecito Fire Protection District received thousands of calls from residents needing rescue; people were on the second floors of their homes

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as well as their roofs, awaiting emergency responders. MFPD, with the help of other local and regional teams, performed an incredible amount of rescues. At the height of the incident, 2,100 responders were on the ground and in the air, rescuing and recovering people in the first week following the incident. Victims from burning homes were rescued, along with those stranded from the mudslides. Ten helicopters performed 18 hoists in the first two hours and 102 air rescues in the first 14 hours, an unprecedented amount of rescues in the rainy weather. Montecito endured catastrophic debris flow and flooding that in total, destroyed or significantly damaged 470 homes and structures, while taking the lives of 23 members of our community. Major damage occurred to our water system, sanitary system, and trail network. Much of the content of this publication in the weeks following the disaster was dedicated to various aspects of the aftermath: complete evacuation followed by repopulation of Montecito, the massive cleanup efforts on private and public property, the plethora of resources available to victims, and the County’s plans to move forward, among other debris flow-related reporting. Lives Lost The casualties from the January 9 storm and subsequent mudslides/ flooding include 30-year-old Pinit

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2018 RESULTS

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very year, Casa del Herrero (House of the Blacksmith) throws a Christmas party for its docents. It’s always after the house is decorated for its annual fundraising gala and the Christmas tours – cider and cookies included. This year it was centered on the loggia with a lovely catered spread of yummy munchies. This was thanks to the executive director Jessica Tade and membership and volunteer manager Nichole LaViola. As Jessica reminded, “We are a staff of two and two gardeners.” When the Steedmans lived here there were 12 gardeners for the eleven acres and a staff that resembled Downton Abbey. George and Carrie Steedman built the house with the help of architect George Washington Smith in the early 1920s when servants were easier to get. Carrie Steedman did have chickens. It turns out to keep her gardeners during WWII, she had to be an agricultural property. She quickly went out and bought chickens and voila, she had a farm and all her gardeners. One of her grandchildren, George Bass, blames his grandmother for his 80,000 chicken ranch. He had to feed her chickens when he visited. There are still family members serving on the board, including great granddaughter Pharibe Wise, who came with her daughter Wynne Hannon from back east to attend

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the party. Others attending were: Susan Schmidt, Susanne McEwen, David DeSelm, Laura Wilson, Bruce Emmens, Carolyn Williams, Liz Rosedale, Sue Skenderian, and Sally Green. To visit this National Historic Landmark located in the heart of Montecito at 1387 East Valley Road, you can go online (www.casadelher rero.com) or call 805.565.5653. The house is filled with furnishings dating back to the 13th century that the Steedmans collected. Enjoy!

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Loathing Of Clothing

ou have to wear clothes, at least enough to cover your private parts. It’s generally the law, in most civilized places. In fact, such laws almost define civilization. “Naked savages” populate the lowest level of the social pyramid. But the garb of those on the upper levels, especially (for some reason) the female of the species, is determined by a strange eternally capricious ethos called “Fashion.” In comparison with those of women, men’s fashions change glacially. But there is a story, which might indeed be true, that, little more than a century ago, English men rather suddenly began to wear trousers with cuffs – after King Edward VII, at a race track, was seen turning up the bottoms of his trousers to avoid getting them spattered with mud. But, no matter who sets the trend, the way we dress is about more than fashion. It is also about status and pride. It is said that there was once a

Spanish nobleman who was so poor, but so proud, that when all but one of the fingers of his gloves had worn through, he would go about with just that one well-gloved finger protruding from his cape. Reason would suggest that, whatever other qualities one’s garb may have, it should at least be comfortable. But since when did reason ever rule fashion? The torments of tight bodices and corsets, of stifling wigs and high-heeled shoes – to say nothing of tattoos, piercing rings, and encrustations of cosmetics, surely belong in one of Dante’s circles of Hell. And all this before we step outside our own culture to witness foot-bindings, infant swaddlings, masking and virtual concealment of women, and any number of other abominations in the name of apparel. At the time of the French Revolution, it was legwear which distinguished the classes. Upper-class Frenchmen wore breeches, or culottes – so the rev-

olutionaries became known as those who didn’t, i.e. the sans-culottes. I myself have had my own troubles over such distinctions. In a place like California, where the climate lends itself to airiness in clothing, I have always felt more comfortable in shorts than in long pants. But this, among other instances of bizarre behavior, soon earned for me the reputation of an odd-ball – or, perhaps a little more kindly, an “eccentric.” Being in a situation like this helps me to have some sympathy for people like Amelia Bloomer, whose odd but practical attire has immortalized her name. I am probably not alone in having a body which for some reason does not lend itself to standard sizes. If I buy pairs of packaged pajamas, the tops may fit, but not the bottoms – or vice versa. My feet have always been a shoe salesman’s nightmare. My waist has, since time immemorial, been a size 35 – but the places I have customarily patronized don’t have size 35s – they only have 34s and 36s. Trying to buy things online only adds a new dimension to the horror – the dimension of Time. Am I exaggerating? Why should I care about a good fit anyway, when my ruling value is comfort? One clothier who doesn’t have to worry about the comfort of his clientele is the person who dresses the newly departed

for display before burial. Among his own major worries is the increasing popularity of cremations. But then there are itching, and bunching, and tangling, and all the other ways in which clothing can be a curse. Whoever coined the expression (possibly still mainly heard in the UK) of “Don’t get your knickers in a twist!” I’m sure knew whereof he or she spoke. Nor must we overlook the often-stifling garb of the privileged. Shakespeare’s observation (in Henry IV, part II) that “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown” need not be taken too metaphorically. All the special garments of eminence and prestige, from the chokingly stiff collars (with their special studs) to the varicose-inducing gartered leggings, seem designed to prove that refined raiment is not a matter of pleasure, but simply of pomposity. But finally, we must come down to what Rupert Brooke would have called “the rough male kiss” of underwear – known only to women as the very French “lingerie” – a word to whose correct pronunciation (unless you parlez Franҫais) the spelling gives no clue. It has been said of feminine vesture that, like a good fence, it should protect the property without obscuring the view. Let us agree, however, that this depends entirely on the condition of the property. •MJ

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A Month of Sundays: New Meditation Series at DiviniTree

iviniTree Santa Barbara, which is entering its first New Year since undergoing a change in ownership, is launching right into 2019 with a new meditation sampler series. “A Year of Centering,” which takes place over four consecutive Sundays, January 6-27, is designed to offer a wide-ranging set of essential tools and insights to integrate into a new or existing practice over the new year. The series covers three different approaches to meditation, plus a wrap-up final session to review and digest the material. The course was the brainchild of Immanuel Otto in consultation with DiviniTree’s Jill Agonias, and was developed to cover a broad spectrum of choices in creating or modifying a daily practice. It’s meant to be suitable for all ranges of experiences, from beginners to devoted practitioners. Over the first two weeks, the series will cover the two major approaches: connecting to the causal body (which includes mindfulness, insight meditation, Zen and Vipassana, among others) and is geared toward finding space between thoughts, and subtle body (working with auras, chi, Kundalini, etc.), focused more on the energy in and around the body. Those will lead into “Creativi•Tao,” a practice developed by Otto, who said the approach is geared toward amplifying creativity and enhancing intuition. “Creativi•Tao is about creating a conduit to your creative wisdom,” said Otto, who recently joined the Santa Barbara community after half a dozen years in Ojai and a bunch before that in Denver, during which he studied mythology, religion, spirituality, and mysticism as well as various forms of meditation. “It’s Taoist, Chinese-medicine based, but focused on cracking open a creative person’s ability to be a ‘mystic with a craft.’” After largely working mostly with artists, Otto is expanding his teachings to a larger field, incorporating scientists looking for breakthroughs, entrepreneurs, engineers – “Anyone dealing with creative challenges and needing to think outside of the box and be more adaptable,” he said. “These are people who shape

the culture and the minds and souls of other individuals who experience their art. It’s almost like a permaculturist, who doesn’t work on the vegetables so much as the soil to provide all the nutrients the plant needs to be what it already is intended to be and is growing into.” All transformative artists, Otto said, have gone through a process that leads to creative breakthroughs, but most merely stumbled upon it. “What I bring is a training program that can help artists who are just starting out to work with these principles that every successful or impactful artist – from Avatar’s James Cameron to Led Zeppelin and Van Gogh – has practiced to tap into the creative genius, get to the insights, and become who they are.” “Flow Practice 1,” Otto’s session on January 20 – which follows MarQ Taylor’s “Mindfulness Meditation” on January 6 and Mitsuko Conner-Newlan’s “Kundalini Subtle Body Activation” on January 13 – is an intro to the larger Creativi•Tao program. “It’s meant to get people immersed in a very simple practice you can do without knowing all the background and rhetoric.” The January 27 Team Sit will feature all the facilitators in a closing panel, meditation, discussion, and recap of the program, including strategies for staying with a practice over the coming year, and information about deeper programs with the instructors. Course participants will also receive print and multimedia materials plus a meditation calendar/tracker. “The program is put together to get people into meditation, get a well-rounded experience of a practice and have a local community experience of meditating together.” Otto said. “Maybe you will want to focus more on the others, whatever lands best for you. Hopefully your higher self, your soul, wants you to pay attention.” Divinitree Santa Barbara is located at 25 East De La Guerra Street. Visit www. divinitreesantabarbara.com/meditation, email ill@divinitree.com, or call (805) 897-3354.

Jumping into Journeys, with Cacao and Kirtan

Barely two months since moving to Santa Barbara after 10 years in Los Angeles followed by eight in New York City, Darren Marc has leapt into the local spiritual community via leading kirtan, cacao ceremonies, and other healing modalities in two events surrounding New Year’s Eve. But what seems like a fast first foray actually feels like a long time to Marc, who has spent many years studying and practicing various forms of Bahhti Yoga and leading kirtans and other approaches on the path of love and devotion, both musical and otherwise. “I came here with a strong intention to continue to do what I was doing back East without a big time gap,” he said. “For me, two months seems like a long time.” Either way, the wait is over, as Darren will be hosting two sessions of Journey of The Heart: Cacao Ceremony and Sacred Song Circle at his Oak Park area home on successive Saturdays, December 29 (1-3 pm) and January 5 (3-5 pm). Both events will combine Kirtan (call-and-response singing), japa (mantra recitation), prayer, meditation, and other art forms to awaken the heart along with a ceremony to connect with cacao, a spirit plant that serves as a gateway and support for the heart-opening practices. “As a singer-songwriter who is also on spiritual path, kirtan really spoke to me,” said Darren, who released an album called Let It Shine back in 2016. “The kirtan I lead has more Western influences than most because of my background, and I think that makes it more accessible. It’s about sixty percent Sanskrit mantras and forty percent in English, with the sacred chants being put to my own music.”

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Sutthithepa, his son, six-year-old Peerawat “Pasta” Sutthithepa, and his father-in-law, 79-year-old Richard Loring Taylor. Faviola Benitez Calderon (28 years old), her ten-yearold son Jonathan Benitez and his cousin, three-year-old Kailly Benitez, as well as her mother, 27-year-old Marilyn Ramos, were also killed. Sisters Sawyer Corey (12 years old) and Morgan Corey (25 years old) are also among the dead. Other victims include 87-year-old Joseph Francis Bleckel, 48-year-old Martin CabreraMunoz, 49-year-old David Cantin, 73-year-old Peter Fleurat, 69-yearold Josephine Gower, 61-year-old John McManigal, 78-year-old Alice Mitchell, 89-year-old James Mitchell, Mark Montgomery (54) and his daughter Caroline Montgomery (22), 61-year-old Rebecca Riskin, and 84-year-old Roy Rohter. Seventeenyear-old Jack Cantin and two-yearold Lydia Sutthithepa remain missing as of this publication. Recovery & Rebuilding Immediately following the mudslide, residents had access to a Local Assistance Center, where they could find information about insurance

First District Supervisor Das Williams with Bucket Brigade co-founder Abe Powell helping to clear mud from a Montecito home

beaches, and public open spaces. In early February, Montecito Water District lifted a boil water notice, giving the green light to the businesses in both the upper and lower villages that they could reopen their doors. A number of different events were planned to encourage people to visit the business districts, including a Cash Mob on Coast Village Road and a family-friendly music, food, and shopping event in the upper village. There were also countless benefit events, the largest being the Kick Ash Bash in February, which drew over 2,500 people to a celebrity-filled concert and carnival at Bella Vista Ranch. The benefit raised over $2 million, which was distributed to beneficiaries including Santa Barbara

claims, FEMA, short-term housing, support groups, counseling, and more. In early March, a semi-permanent facility was opened on Coast Village Circle, called Montecito Center, which was a hub for various outreach programs to help with the rebuilding process. The Center, which was open for six months, was led by Ben Romo and his team. The building space was donated by Paul Orfalea.

The Copus brothers, owners of Montecito Inn, participated in the Cash Mob on Coast Village Road in February

Just days after the mudslide, Montecito Fire Protection District board president Abe Powell, along with his wife Jessica Powell, Thomas and Linda Cole, and Josiah Hamilton, founded the Bucket Brigade, a non-profit organization which coordinated and deployed thousands of volunteers in the disaster zone to remove mud and debris from private property. The Brigade continues its work today, partnering with other local non-profits to clean out creek channels, trails,

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Darren, who leads on acoustic guitar rather than harmonium, will be joined for some of the four-chant set by Santa Barbara singer-songwriter Zoe Guess. The other hour will be anchored by the cacao ceremony, a personal path Marc has recently favored. “The plant has been my teacher,” he said. “Cacao supports us in awakening to the truth that we’re all connected as humans and with the planet, which occurs in the heart center. My path is about opening up to experiencing true unconditional love, more joy and oneness. The plant helps facilitate that.” Marc, who has already connected with a number of local acoustic and kirtan musicians, will also be performing his music at the Santa Barbara Night Market at 5 pm on December 27-28, and he and Guess will co-lead a full two-hour kirtan during early February. Admission to the Cacao Ceremony and Sacred Song Circle is $10 per session. Visit www.meetup.com/Cacao-Ceremony-Sacred-Song-Circle or www.awak enwithdarren.com.

Goodbye 2018

Two spiritual centers are holding December 31 events that are early enough in the evening to still connect with others in a different way before the clock strikes 12. Mahakankala Buddhist Center hosts a 6:30-7:45 pm program that includes a guided meditation and prayers to Avalokiteshvara, Buddha of Compassion, with a goal of helping to create a healthy world with a shift in the way we think and perceive, through contemplation, prayer, and meditation. At 7 pm, Unity of Santa Barbara offers its popular annual Burning Bowl Ceremony, an ancient fire ritual that helps people to release old, unwanted conditions, events, or limiting beliefs in their lives. The ritual honors one’s intention to release ideas, thoughts, and habits that no longer serve one’s highest good. Through contemplative music (from longtime local stalwarts Shawn Thies and Woody Demarco), spoken words and meditation, participants are guided to put to flash paper those unwanted thoughts and feelings from the past and drop them into the bowl of fire, where they are completed, consumed, and released, making room for something new as the new year dawns. Both events are free of charge; donations are welcome. Over at Yoga Soup, owner Eddie Ellner hosts a special Ecstatic New Year’s Eve Breathing class, where participants basically lay on the floor and “breathe

deep and fast.” The 8-10 pm session also includes finger foods and beverages, and, in Ellner’s post, “meditation, music, and dancing highly likely.” Check out http://www.yogasoup.com/ecstatic-breathing for more details and an essay about Ellner’s introduction to the technique. Admission is $40 in advance, $50 on December 31.

Hello 2019

Cheri Clampett’s 24th annual New Year’s Day Visioning Workshop includes yin yoga, gentle flowing yoga, and a special visioning meditation to release the past year and step into the new one. Also featured is essential oils and hands-on adjustments plus live yoga music and DJ sounds by Avahara. Admission to the 3-7 pm event at Santa Barbara Yoga Center is $40. Yoga Dance Magic isn’t wasting any time in its mission to bring the message and method of movement to the great outdoors around town, holding its next session at East Beach (1118 East Cabrillo Boulevard) from 3-5 pm on January 1. The classes, an “adventure into awakening your true self,” begins with invigorating yet gentle yoga, activating the breath with intuitive postures and moves into free form, non-choreographed movement to awesome music that eventually transforms into an epic dance party. The class closes with cool down stretches, restorative poses, and a sweet savasana in which participants will set positive intentions for the new year. No previous yoga or dance experience necessary; all levels welcome. Admission is $22. Visit www.yogadancemagic.com.

Get a Move on in ‘19

Movement Lab – an experience combining guided movement meditations, structured improvisation, dynamic exploration, simple choreographed exercises, and the exhilarating experience of moving in unison with others – is returning to Yoga Soup on a regular basis. After a successful three-week workshop in the fall, facilitators Melissa Lowenstein and Lamara Heartwell, along with guest instructors, are back to lead the gatherings, described as “body-asplayground, expand-your-movement-vocabulary” sessions, a moment to stop being a floating head and re-enter our kinetic, somatic selves; to breathe hard, to swing free, to sweat, to laugh. The ongoing weekly classes begin Wednesday, January 2, 7-8:30 pm.

“Hello Awakening!”

Resident teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips returns to the Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Buddhist Center on Thursday, January 3, for the launching of a new sixweek teaching for the New Year called “Hello Awakening! An introduction to Buddha’s teachings and authentic spiritual practice in modern times.” Phillips will lead the class that provides a solid foundation in understanding the meaning and aim of the path of awakening in the present day. Students, seekers, scholars, practitioners, the simply curious, and especially newcomers are welcome to learn how to take joyful first steps toward reducing your own and others’ suffering, once and for all. In a new format, Phillips’ teachings will alternate with discussions led by Sangha members, providing an opportunity to reflect on and integrate the material through sharing of questions and insights with the community. There is no set fee, although donations are appreciated.

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Raising our Light

On the one-year anniversary of the Montecito mudslide/debris flow, everyone is invited to a walk of remembrance starting at Lower Manning Park with a short program leading into a candlelight processional down San Ysidro Road and ending at All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church with a bell ceremony and a cup of soup. People will start assembling at the Montecito park at 6 pm on Wednesday, January 9, for the 6:30-8:30 pm event to honor our collective experiences, with the desire that the community will share a night of healing, hope, and light with one another. Flameless candles will be available prior to the event at designated locations and at the park prior to the walk.

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Once in a (Blue) Lit Moon

ast year, Lit Moon Theatre Company reached its 25th anniversary, the kind of milestone that might call for a special celebration. So it might seem strange that the company founded and still run by Westmont Theater professor John Blondell is only now getting around to a reunion show. Then again, Lit Moon has always been a company that is more than a little avant-garde, one just as likely to fracture a classic or feature puppets as characters (as in its holiday show, Scrooge) or cast cross-gender or age-blind as it is to do something relatively straight. But no matter what, the story is always at the heart. Story, heart, and an unusual approach will all be on display on January 5, when Lit Moon mounts its first-ever reunion show, a production of The Nina Variations, Steven Dietz’s homage to Chekhov’s The Seagull. As if the play itself – which consists of 44 short variations on Nina and Treplev’s final scene in the classic – wasn’t enough of a twist, the cast is comprised of 38 actors, all current or former Lit Moon Company members

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 20) Montecito Community Foundation Board President Ted Urschel with Board Member Doug Ford at Ford’s workshop, where 36 Montecito street signs are being rebuilt and repaired following the 1/9 debris flow

The fourmonth-long project to repair the Olive Mill overpass at Highway 101 was completed in December

the 93108Fund. Later in the spring, we also saw benefit concerts at the Santa Barbara Bowl by local celeb-

rities Katy Perry, Brad Paisley, and Ellen DeGeneres. Three Montecito hotels closed tem-

The Partnership for Resilient Communities plans on installing large steel nets to catch future debris in our foothills

porarily following the mudslide; Montecito Inn, which sustained significant damage to its underground parking garage, the exterior of the hotel, and some interior damage, reopened in the beginning of March, after undergoing a mini transformation with a new exterior marble driveway, new epoxy coating in the valet garage, repairs to the back parking lot, new grand entrance doors, new carpeting, exterior plaster repair, and repainting of the entire exterior including trim and iron work. The Copus brothers, who own the Inn, designed a newly landscaped garden, which includes a planter surrounded by 23 stones, in honor of the 23 lives lost on January 9. In June we saw the reopening of the Four Seasons Resort the Biltmore, which sustained

damage to its tennis courts, several garden areas, and the employee/ administration building where mudflow caused damage to electrical systems and employee offices. In addition to extensive landscaping work, the resort underwent restoration on a few guest rooms, the tennis courts, the employee and administration areas, areas of the main lobby, and more. Other aspects of the Resort were also revamped, including staff uniforms, all food menus at the Resort and Coral Casino, the spa treatment menu, and the addition of new product lines. The San Ysidro Ranch, which sustained major damage to the grounds and several cottages, is expected to fully reopen in early 2019; the Ranch held a

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small number of private dining events during the holiday season. Residents whose homes were severely damaged or destroyed began navigating the rebuilding process shortly after the debris flow. The County assigned case managers to oversee the rebuilding process for each individual homeowner. In May, the County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a “like-for-like” ordinance amendment allowing property owners to rebuild their homes with the same or substantially the same footprint, height, floor area, and bulk as the structure that existed prior to the disaster (i.e. conforming structures can be within 10% of the previous footprint, height, floor area, and bulk). The ordinance amendments allow displaced property owners to obtain a planning permit exemption or waiver to rebuild their structure in a safer location on their lot to meet Flood Control requirements, and the amendments allow the replaced or restored structure to exceed the height of the destroyed or damaged structure if necessary to comply with the base flood elevation that exists for the lot after the debris flow or other event. All year long, the agendas at the Montecito Board of Architectural Review included multiple properties going through the rebuilding process.

In April we reported on the Montecito Community Foundation’s effort to replace or repair 36 street signs that were damaged in the mudslide. Doug Ford, a contractor and also a board member on the Foundation, volunteered in 2017 to take on the project of maintaining Montecito’s 212 iconic hand-painted street signs, a project that the Foundation has overseen and funded since 1975. Prior to the debris flow, the street signs required replacement due to termites, theft, wood rot, or car accidents. Ford’s plan was to have the signs repaired by students in high school wood shop classes, as he oversees the shop classes offered by Santa Barbara Unified School District. “Once the Thomas Fire and mudslide occurred, I knew the project I had agreed to take on suddenly got much, much larger,” Ford told us at the time. Shortly after the mudslide, Montecito Fire District personnel escorted him through the disaster zone, to survey the damage and take stock of the missing signage. Ford generously offered the labor and use of his workshop to complete the project; Montecito Community Foundation funded the cost of materials. The Montecito Association donated $10,000 to the project. In May we reported on the opening of Casa Dorinda’s new entrance

Montecito Trails Foundation welcomed over 80 volunteers to help restore and clean up Montecito trails (photo courtesy Aanjelae Rhoads)

bridge at the intersection of Olive Mill and Hot Springs Road. The bridge, which arches over Montecito Creek and serves as both the entry and exit to the 48-acre community, marked the completion of the first major milestone in the facility’s most recent expansion project and was a visual sign of rebuilding following the 1/9 debris flow. The property’s historic southern exit bridge, which was significantly damaged in the mudslide, was demolished after County staff in 2016 estimated that the bridge would degrade structurally over the next two decades. To mark the gratitude of Casa Dorinda residents for the harrowing efforts of Montecito Fire Protection District firefighters during the Thomas Fire and subsequent debris flow, a Montecito Fire truck was the first

vehicle to cross the bridge at the ribbon cutting ceremony. Additionally, Casa Dorinda announced a $10,000 donation to MFPD. All 300 residents of Casa Dorinda were evacuated following the mudslide. In June, the Board of Supervisors approved the draft of a Strategic Recovery Plan, which outlines the County’s approach to ongoing recovery efforts following the Thomas Fire and 1/9 debris flow. According to Director of Recovery Matt Pontes, the County’s immediate goal is to help the community move forward by bringing together collective resources at the local, state, and federal level. The Strategic Plan includes eight key areas, including Storm Preparation and Evacuation, Long-term Flood Control Mitigation, Private Property Rebuilding, Financial Impacts & Economic Recovery, Removal of Debris on Private Property, Infrastructure Repair and Modifications, Natural and Cultural Resources, and Community Engagement. The plan will assist the County in receiving necessary grants from various entities. Out in the field, we saw the full demolition of the majority of the homes that were beyond repair; this also included clearing properties of hundreds of massive boulders and rocks that came down the foothills on the morning of January 9. Moving forward, we expect to see the continued rebuilding of private homes, as well as the eventual reopening of the damaged bridges on Highway 192. Seven bridges in Montecito and Carpinteria were damaged during the event; the cost to rebuild and repair them stands at approximately $55 million. All the bridges are expected to be completed

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disasters, which has also been turned into a time-lapse video work commissioned by The Cheese and Wine Store’s Patrick Braid. Jeremy, who attended Montecito Union School – where he recently painted a 50-foot-long mural for students – and graduated from Santa Barbara High in 1988 before attending the San Francisco Art Institute and becoming a full-time artist 15 years ago. He is also a member of SCAPE and the Oak Group, which creates landscape paintings that bring awareness and raises money to help protect wide open spaces endangered by development. “I made the fire station painting over the span of three or four separate days spread out over two months,” says Jeremy. “I have a good friend that wants to buy it, but for now I’m hanging on to it because I’m too attached to it to see it go at this stage.” But, he adds: “I have made a few prints.” Montecito Club Returns Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner’s Montecito Club, which has been closed since September, 2015, for major multi million dollar renovations, is re-opening with a grand celebration on March 29, says my mole with the martini. As well as the new par 71 golf course, designed by the legendary Jack Nicklaus, the club will also feature a 25,000 sq.ft. ocean-view swimming pool and a heavenly host of other improvements. Home on the Ranch Author Doyle Hollister, a fourth generation California native, has written an entertaining book on his upbringing and history at his family’s historic Hollister Ranch. The 127-page tome, I Only Went Out for a Walk: Finding My Wilderness Soul on a California Ranch, he describes as “a memoir about what happens to us as humans if we disconnect from the wilderness.” “If we don’t pay attention to the wild and reconnect with it from our self

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Author Doyle Hollister recounts life on his family’s historic Hollister Ranch

exiling consciousness... we’re terminal,” concludes Doyle, who resides in an aerie overlooking Point Conception on rugged land his family has lived on and worked for 150 years. He read excerpts from the book at a bijou bash at Tecolote, the tony tome temple in the upper village. Reveling Into the New Year Santa Barbara Revels, presenting its 11th anniversary production at the Lobero, moved to Ireland this year after its Alta California Rancho period piece in 2017. “We wanted to honor the strength and courage of the intrepid Irish emigrants who left their homeland in the early 1900s, specially those who might have traveled on the S.S. Furnessia, an actual steamship, that sailed from Londonderry to Ellis Island in December, 1907,” says founder and producer Susan Keller, who also does the stage direction with Matt Tavianini, set and lighting design. “While at sea, the emigrants bond with each other by dancing together, spinning stories, sharing songs, and enjoying their seasonal traditions.” Music director Erin McKibben and music arranger Nicholas Jurkowski excel, with Jason Lowe, Josh Jenkins, Bill Egan, Rich Hoag,

Revels’ Christmas show tells the story of Irish emigrants coming to America on the S.S. Furnessia (photo by David Bazemore)

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and Courtney Simpson as the players, joining a heavenly host of musical groups including the Solstice Singers, the Yuletide Youth, the Children’s Christmas Chorus, the Lord of the Dance and County Clare Dancers, the Belfast Brass Ensemble, the Pacific Sword Company, the Cloddagh Dance Company, the Kilkenny Coterie, and the White Star Rhymers. Having seen all 11 shows since its inception, it was nice to see Susan’s son, Matthew Shapero, in the chorus for the first time. As she always proclaims: “Join us and be joyous.” We did – and we certainly were.

Buon Appetito Gourmands were out en-masse when Italian culinary wizard Massimo Falsini cooked a host of delights at the home of software entrepreneur Frank and Allison Paolini for Epicurean Santa Barbara to raise funds for his charity, the Refettorio Program, which helps the homeless. Massimo, who hails from Rome and was executive chef at Solage, a five-star Forbes Auberge resort in the Napa Valley, included among the tasteful treats local rock cod ceviche, compressed carbonara, Spanish octopus, grass-fed beef tartare, and parmigiana Cheez-it crackers.

Epicurean Santa Barbara founders Amy and Keith Robinson with chef Massimo Falsini (photo by Keith Robinson)

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 31) Grass-fed beef tartare with fennel-mustard relish on sourdough (photo by Keith Robinson)

In due course the talented chef will take over running the restaurants at a new five-star beachside hostelry in our rarefied enclave. Delight in Drag It was all quite a drag in the nicest possible way with Ensemble Theatre Company’s last show of the year at the New Vic. The production, The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez, stars versatile Stephen Michael Spencer who plays a financially struggling Elvis Presley impersonator at a Florida pan-

Bill Brochtrup stars in the Ensemble Theatre Company production of The Legend of Georgia McBride

handle bar who gets demoted to a bartender. The joint’s owner, delightfully played by J. Stephen Brantley, hires two drag artists, amusingly acted by NYPD Blue veteran Bill Brochtrup and Carlton Byrd, when Spencer’s character has an epiphany and re-invents himself as Georgia McBride, in a hilarious, and often emotionally painful, transformation to a would-be Divine, with some delightful lip-synching numbers with the inevitable disco as well as country music and Shirley Bassey. The show, directed by Jenny Sullivan, is a delight, with wonderful choreography by Ensemble regular Jamie Torcellini. The production’s standards are as high as the heels...

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Rescue Mission volunteers Scott Bigler, Kurt Holm, Paul Portney, Maria Caudillo, Susan Cass, and Chris Portney (photo by Priscilla)

Festive Feast The festive spirit was palpable when the Rescue Mission hosted its annual Christmas Feast, an event I have volunteered at for a decade. The 300 guests were welcomed in the chapel, which is serving as a temporary dining room during multi-million dollar renovations, with plates heaped high by kitchen manager Wesley Jones and his colleagues with heavenly hams, and more than 100 pounds of mashed potatoes. “It’s important people feel cared for Martha Fisher, Barry Goss, Scott Wilson, and Cheryl Barbaria giving out jeans (photo by Priscilla)

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Alice Birch (top right) with the Sunukjian family: Jason and Heather with daughters Lily and Maya (photo by Priscilla)

Wilson and Max Geyling entertaining the dinner guests (photo by Priscilla)

during the holidays,” says mission president Rolf Geyling, whose annual budget is $2.5 million, helping more than 2,000 people annually. Between Thanksgiving and the New Year, the mission will have served 10,000 meals to those in need. Afterward, diners were able to pick up presents in the outside courtyard including shoes, underwear, jeans, and toiletries. New Addition William Gallivan and staffers at the Orthopedic Institute of Santa Barbara welcomed some new bones to the roster at the annual holiday celebration at their downtown offices. The boffo bash, held in an enormous tent connected to the Junipero Street office, became the vortex for the festive fest that included music by guitarist Bruce Goldish, a nurse at Cottage Hospital, and welcomed Christian Andre Guier, a medical school graduate from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, who will be directing Fast Track Orthopedics, a new walk-in clinic at the institute.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 35) Orthopedic Institute of Santa Barbara’s Christian Guier and William Gallivan (photo by Bonnie Carroll)

Karen Gallivan and Diane Waterhouse at the Orthopedic Institute’s holiday bash (photo by Bonnie Carroll)

His impressive resumé includes a history of orthopedic surgery in Montreal, San Francisco, and Jackson, Wyoming, as well as being physician and surgeon to the French national

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One Year Later Santa Barbara Master Chorale, under director Steve Hodson, threw a free Santa Barbara Sings! concert at the Lobero as a gift to our Eden by the Beach on the first anniversary of the Thomas Fire and the ensuing catastrophic mudslides. The singers sang Navidad Nuestra by Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez, a folk drama of the nativity based on the rhythms and traditions of Hispanic America. Special guests included guitarist Anthony Ybarra, contralto Carol AnnManzi, the American Riviera Children’s Chorus, the Adelfos Ensemble, and the SB Treble Clef Chorus. A delightful afternoon… Hands Off Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry wants to keep British actor beau Orlando Bloom to herself. The former Dos Pueblos High student bid $50,000 to win a date with The Lord of the Rings star, outbidding a competitor by $30,000, at the One Love charity auction at the King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas to benefit victims of the catastrophic Woolsey Fire, which burned 98,362 acres and destroyed 1,500 homes and buildings. Katy also donated her services on stage... Fresh Start Former longtime general director of Opera Santa Barbara, Steven

May the Wealth be with you Carpinteria-based filmmaker George Lucas has claimed top spot in Forbes Magazine’s list of America’s wealthiest celebrities. Lucas, the 74-year-old writer, producer and creator of the legendary Star Wars has a commanding lead over other celebrities with a net worth of $5.4 billion. Forbes says most of his wealth comes from the sale of his production company, LucasFilm, which he sold to Walt Disney in 2012. Coming in at second place is Steven Spielberg, 72, worth an estimated $3.7 billion, while the richest female celebrity is 64-year-old Montecito media mogul, Oprah Winfrey, with a $2.8 billion net worth. Sightings: Comedian Steve Martin at Jeannine’s on CVR... Lynda Weinman breakfasting at Renaud’s... Sara Miller McCune checking out Mollie’s on State Street...

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Sharpe, has landed in a whole new aria. Steven, an accomplished consultant and administrator who has successfully led a succession of nonprofit organizations, has been named executive director of Food From The Heart, which provides medically challenged residents with nutritious meals. “In many ways this is a love-fest between all involved,” says Steven, who ran the opera company for 11 years, spearheading the first world premiere Seance on a Wet Afternoon and expanding programs, including Opera on the Go and Opera al Fresco. He began his nonprofit career at the Pacific Pride Foundation and also served as executive director of the Dream Foundation and general manager of Camerata Pacifica.

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early 2019. Nearly half of the budget for the project went to repairing the Olive Mill Bridge at Highway 101, which caused a one-way detour in the area for nearly four months and officially reopened before the holidays. Early on after the disaster, a group of private citizens, dubbed the Partnership For Resilient Communities, quickly realized that the County had a need for expertise and funding, and mobilized various experts to conduct assessments and recommendations about our fragile hillsides. The most feasible and immediate solution, according to the Partnership, is the installation of environmentally friendly Swissmade steel nets, which catch debris as it comes down the hillsides. The series of nets has the capacity to catch nearly 100 cubic yards of debris; nearly twice the amount of debris that our three Montecito debris basins can accommodate. There are currently 41 such nets in other areas of the state, including Big Sur, Santa Cruz, and Marin. The project, which requires permits from the County of Santa Barbara, the Forest Service, the State Water Board, Army Corps of Engineers, and the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, is in the works, with hope that construction will begin early next year.

The group includes Pat McElroy, Brett Matthews, Gwyn Lurie, Joe Cole, Les Firestein, Mary Rose, Ron Pulice, Alixe Mattingly, Cathy Cash, and Hollye Jacobs. In November, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously during closed session to begin negotiations with homeowners on Randall Road in hopes of buying seven properties (plus one on East Valley Road) in order to build a new debris basin where the multimillion dollar homes were once located. The short road, which ends at the southern perimeter of La Casa de Maria, suffered catastrophic damage during the 1/9 debris flow when San Ysidro Creek to the east overflowed, killing four people in the immediate area of Randall, East Valley Road, and Glen Oaks, and demolishing over a dozen homes. The County is seeking $19 million in FEMA grant money to purchase the property, agreeing to match $6 million in County funds to make the purchase happen. The Montecito Trails Foundation spent the year working with Santa Barbara County, Santa Barbara City, and the Los Padres National Forest to restore the trail system in Montecito, which was devastated after the debris flow. The Foundation brought on new board members: Ashlee Mayfield, Paddy McMahon, and Tony Morris,

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who helped the non-profit to regroup and rebuild the trail system. They join ten other board members, led by Board President Kevin Snow, who has served the MTF for 35 years. In December, the Foundation announced the reopening of portions of the Cold Spring Trail, although other portions still require major restoration. The restoration efforts, which cost upwards of $1.5 million, were sponsored by private donors as well as grants from Montecito Community Foundation and others. To mark the first anniversary of the 1/9 debris flow, a Remembrance Walk is planned for January 9, 2019. Sponsored by the Debris Flow and Thomas Fire Anniversary Planning Committee, the walk will start at Lower Manning Park with a short program leading into a candlelit processional down San Ysidro Road and ending at All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church. People will start assembling at Lower Manning Park at 6 pm with a program to begin at 6:30 pm. The walk is estimated to be 15-25 minutes. Shuttles will be available to transport community members to and from Lower Manning Park and other designated sites in Montecito starting at 5:30 pm. The remembrance event will conclude with a bell ceremony and a cup of soup at All Saints-by-theSea Episcopal Church, 83 Eucalyptus Lane.

New Maps In February, Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Management held both a press conference and a community meeting to unveil a new interactive map and revised evacuation plans for future storms, showing both high risk and extreme risk areas during rainstorms of .5-inch per hour or more; the map was developed by a group of engineers, scientists, and emergency officials. The map was released prior to a significant rainstorm in March; residents and businesses were evacuated but no significant debris flow occurred. In June, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) released an updated flood map which stands as the basis on which property owners can rebuild their homes. The map, which is officially called the Interim Flood Advisory Recovery Map, reflects updated flood plains – areas that can be expected to flood in heavy rainfalls– and new elevations that resulted from the events related to the 1/9 debris flow. The map is considered a 100-year flood map, and shows where clear water will flood if debris basins and creek channels are full, during this interim period while our watershed recovers from the Thomas Fire. In order to adhere to flood plain ordinances, homeowners

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Leonidas Kavakos, violin Enrico Pace, piano Fri, Jan 25 / 7 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $25 $10 UCSB students “Kavakos’ tone has the character of striking highgrade silver sinew, ever beautiful, graceful and unbreakable.” – Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times

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38, but they’re coming from all over, L.A., New York, Minnesota, Chicago, Dallas, Boston, Portland, Honolulu. It’s a play about love and loss, the daily heartaches of life, unrequited love – but also about the theater itself, so it made sense.” That inside approach, which has included both in-person and Skypebased rehearsals, has been fun, Blondell said, comparing the production to “a destination wedding. I’m going to be back in the room with all of these people, some of whom don’t even know each other, and it’s incredibly exciting, a one-of-a-kind experience with a real celebratory energy.” In the runup to Variations, Blondell has been busy taking a trip down memory lane, revisiting every show in Lit Moon’s history and posting photographs of the productions every day until show time. “It’s been great to think about the shows and the people who were involved, and remember cherished moments. It’s a real deep memory experience for me that is proving incredibly valuable and moving.” But what about those coming to Variations who have never seen The Seagull? “There’s definitely more richness if you know the play,” Blondell said. “But it’s a rich story that’s just about these two people. And it’s a big theatri-

cal event, with lots of music, including from our original composer, Michael Mortilla. And the play itself is a big fragmented thing. The challenge is to make it coherent, relevant, and understandable, irrespective of whether you have the underpinning of knowing Chekhov. No matter what, it will still be a very valuable experience.”

Bicoastal Roots: 5 Qs with Bryan Titus

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Michael Lynche joins the Santa Barbara Symphony for their annual New Year’s Eve Pops show; this year’s theme is “Dancing in the Streets: The Music of Motown and More”

featuring fellow singer-songwriters: Chris Pierce, Shane Alexander, Jamie Drake, and The Brambles. He contrasted the coasts, and the gigs, over the phone recently. Q. You seemed like you were going to stick around Santa Barbara for a good long while. What happened? A. Actually, it was always supposed to be just for five years. I’m originally from central Connecticut and I moved back to be closer to my family. I missed the changing of the seasons, the cold and the snow, like we have right now. But I also get to come back and visit Santa Barbara, too. So I feel like I’m living the dream. So how is the local music scene? I’m developing some different opportunities out here, a few live venues and other connections. It’s a fun challenge to use the same process that was successful out there in a new market for me. But it’s also a challenge to be playing by myself without the rest of the trio. There are some dudes here that I used to play with whom I might get together again. But it won’t be the same. There’s something about the power of threes. You’ll be playing with the boys in your shows here in January, though. Yeah, but they’ll be very different. At the Maverick, we usually play a three-hour show with lots of covers, upbeat dance music, and an emphasis on fun. But actually I really enjoy what I’m doing at the Alcazar, where I get to collaborate with each of the other artists. They each play three to four songs, maybe fifteen minutes, and then I join each of them for a song together. You get to hear me do stuff with people I don’t usually do with people I’ve never played with before. And then at the end the BTT will do a full set, mostly focusing on my original music. It’s much more of a singer-songwriter kind of show.

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Speaking of that, how goes the songwriting in your new digs? That’s partly also why I moved. We were playing so much, which was wonderful, but I wanted a little bit more of a retreat, hermit-style life, where it’s quiet enough for me to focus. We’ve spent the whole two months so far making our new house a home, but we got three bedrooms here as opposed to just one in Santa Barbara. I’m setting up a project studio for my music and (wife) Katie’s yoga. It will be great to have space to be creative. I co-wrote a bit out there. But my intention is to get back into writing songs for myself. I need to shut out the world and really focus and let the creative juices marinate and the inspiration come through.

Hey ‘19

As usual, there are all sorts of options for ringing in the New Year in Santa Barbara, including a brand new event in the increasingly trendy Funk Zone centered around the new Hotel Californian. Just about the entire neighborhood is involved, with events starting at 10 am with the preliminary rounds of the first annual Santa Barbara’s Voice Singing Showcase at the Hotel Californian, with divisions for both juniors and adults, and a final showcase competition in the evening. (Advance registration open through Christmas.) Hotel Californian also turns its plaza into a toy Tesla Grand Prix from 10 am to 4 pm when kids can drive the mini cars around the orange traffic cones. A Noon Year’s Eve Celebration for families takes place at MOXI at 12 pm, while a Sunset Champagne Sail departs at 3 pm. The Wayfarer Hotel’s pool will be surrounded by glamorous cabanas with full bottle service and all the luxurious elements of a year-ending party from 2-7 pm. Expect food, beverage, and other specials and various venues all around the area. Back 27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

at the Californian, the hotel’s Rooftop Veuve Clicquot Champagne Lounge roars to life at 7 pm with Unlimited Champagne Samples, Petite Dessert, Live Music and more, although festivities move inside at 10 pm due to the city’s noise ordinance. More details online at www.facebook.com/ FunkZoneNYE/events. Motor (City) into the New Year: The Santa Barbara Symphony channels Detroit for its annual New Year’s Eve Pops show, this year dubbed “Dancing in the Streets: The Music of Motown and More.” Perennial guest conductor Bob Bernhardt wields the baton for the festive show featuring free hats and noisemakers to amp up the energy for a string of classic Motown hits made famous by artists like Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, Martha Reeves, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, The Temptations, and Stevie Wonder. The program includes new orchestral arrangements of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” “Dancing In The Street,” “I Heard it Through The Grapevine,” “My Girl,” and “Superstition,” while three guest singers – American Idol finalist Michael Lynche, Broadway veteran Chester Gregory (Berry Gordy in Broadway and touring version of Motown the Musical), and New York City-based vocalist and songwriter Shayna Steele – will provide the vocals for several selections. The 8:30 pm show at the Granada gets out plenty early to make it to a party. Sudsy Celebration: Just because it’s cold out doesn’t mean Santa Barbara won’t be home to yet another beer bash or wine fest. Brew Year’s Eve takes place at the historic Carrillo Rec Center Ballroom. Tickets includes all the beer you can drink from the 10-plus craft breweries, wine from Lucky Dogg Winery (including a sparkling chardonnay), margaritas from Fuego Tequila, Moscow Mules by New City Breweries, and Papa’s Pilar Rum Cocktails – eight different bars in all. (Just be aware that the ballroom’s sprung floor might actually make the room seem to be bouncing up and down even more than usual when you over imbibe.) Live entertainment includes sets by The New Vibe band and DJ Hecktik, and there’s even a cigar rolling demo and photo booth. Tickets are $85 a pop or $150 for two. Info at https://brewyearsevesb.com. Goin’ South in Search of Laughs: Ventura Improv Company has curtailed both its workshops and regular performances since vacating their decades-long original home in The Livery just off Main Street in downtown Ventura last year, although for a time there were weekly performances at Ventura Harbor. But the gang that 27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

makes everything up on the spot (kind of like our current president?) are still doing their annual benefit bash on New Year’s Eve, when the terrific troupe takes over Rubicon Theatre. The fundraiser and gala features a full funny-as-heck improv show featuring music and lots of audience participation, plus food and dessert buffets, wine, beer, champagne, soda, and sparkling cider in the 8-10:30 pm event. Tickets are $40 adults, $20 children. Visit http://venturaimprov. com/events/2018/12/nye-fundrais

er-gala-rubicon-2018… Also, Gabriel Iglesias’ special “One Show Fits All” gig at Oxnard Levity Comedy Club, slated for 6:30 pm, has been sold out for months. Up North: The Boogie Knights and The Spazmatics returning to the Chumash Casino Resort for its annual New Year’s Eve Dance Party, teaming up to celebrate the new year by dialing back the clock a few decades for dance dominated sets. The Knights, proclaimed

“The greatest disco revival show in the world,” cover such ‘70s disco and funk sensations as Heatwave, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, The Bee Gees, Kool and the Gang, the Village People and Rick James, while The Spazmatics rock the ‘80s complete with skinny ties, brylcreem hair, and horn-rimmed glasses and the new wave sounds of Duran Duran, Men at Work, The Knack, Thomas Dolby, Men Without Hats, and Devo. Admission to the 9 pm show is free with free Club Indulge membership. •MJ

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Carl Palmer with Lily and Carrie Kappel. Carl won the Lutah Maria Riggs Award.

A snow scene at the University Club taken during the AIA holiday party

the next year. He told us, “Our chapter turns ninety this year and is the second oldest in California.” They had over 50 submissions from 18 different licensed architects in the Santa Barbara area as well as architects outside Santa Barbara who did projects in our County. This year’s categories were: commercial buildings and interiors, new single family residential, multi-family residential historic preservation/renovation, Santa Barbara architectural heritage; small projects: residential additions

and remodels, and interior architecture and design: residential kitchens, baths, interiors. This year AIA gave the Lutah Maria Riggs Presidents Award for outstanding community service because of the fire and flood. They selected Carl Palmer whose leadership, compassion, and dedication contributed significantly to community healing and recovery. Lutah was a well-known architect and George Washington Smith’s partner who took over his practice after he died. They are both

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Donaldson (three awards), SOM, NMA Architects (two awards), Harrison Design, PMSM, KABZ Architects, and AB Design Studios. The AIA was founded in 1857 and consistently works to create more valuable, healthy, secure and sustainable buildings, neighborhoods, and communities. There are nearly 300 state and local chapters. Submissions of the 2018 Design Awards will be exhibited at Faulkner Gallery during February and March 2019. A First Thursday reception will be held on February 7, 2019. •MJ 27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

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are required to rebuild two feet above the base flood elevation indicated on their property on the map. The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved the map the following week, on June 19. Many members of the community did not agree with portions of the map; a community meeting in July addressed these issues and gave residents recourse in pursuing modification of the map. In July, the Montecito Planning Commission and Montecito Board of Architectural Review held a workshop to review the FEMA Interim Flood Advisory Recovery Map, hearing from Flood Control engineering manager Jon Frye, who explained the technical aspects of the map. Another new map was released in October; this one pertained to debris flow risk and evacuations during significant rainfall. The map removed “mandatory” and “voluntary” evacuation zones and “high risk” and “extreme risk” areas, showing only a red area that would be evacuated during a predicted storm. The map altered the red area by drilling it down to parcels; meaning that an entire property is shown in or out of the risk zone, leaving less room for confusion on whether a homeowner should leave during an evacuation. That map had 2,496 parcels identified in Montecito and Carpinteria that were considered at risk. The interactive map allows users to type in their address, and if their parcel is located in the red zone, it will be very clear that the property is under evacuation. This area was determined in part by the watershed emergency response team, who used Lidar data and topography post-1/9 debris flow to determine where both high energy and low energy debris flow is likely to occur. At the same time, the County also revised both the evacuation threshold as well as the plan that will be followed during predicted storms. The evacuation threshold was increased from .5-inch of predicted rain per hour to .8-inch of predicted rain per

hour. For perspective: the burst of rain that caused the 1/9 debris flow was .54 inches in 5 minutes, which is the equivalent to over 6 inches in an hour. In December, the October map was further modified, removing 1,187 total parcels (in Montecito and Carpinteria) from the red area, and adding 200 other properties. As of press time, there are 1,149 total parcels in the “red area” in Montecito; a massive door-to-door campaign took place in December to alert each and every homeowner in the evacuation area. During evacuations, several schools in Montecito will close including Montecito Union School, Laguna Blanca Lower School, and Crane Country Day School. Cold Spring School, Mount Carmel, and Westmont will remain open. For access to all of the relevant maps, visit www.readysbc.org.

Project Progress YMCA In October, YMCA reps revealed new renderings for a scaled down and redesigned version of the Master Plan update, which has been in the works for over a decade. The former, more expansive plan, which was submitted to the County in 2013, required that overflow parking be available off-site at Lower Manning Park. However, the Y was unable to secure a longterm parking agreement with the County Parks Commission last year, and instead sought to revise the plans so that all parking could be on the 4.25-acre site. The plans began to shift in February 2017, but were halted late last year following the Thomas Fire and the mudslide. The Y sustained minor damage to the site during the debris flow: the loss of water caused the malfunction of the YMCA’s pool pump. The new project, which is being called the Revised Master Plan, includes a significant reduction in programing, including eliminating the YMCA’s preschool program, with

potential plans to locate it off-site if the need exists. The plans also include a remodeled and slightly expanded main building, which does not include a second story as originally planned. That building will house weight training, cardio, offices, childcare, group fitness, and a flex/meeting room; the group fitness area has been relocated to be further away from the perimeter, in order to assuage neighbor concerns about noise. A new locker room building will be nearly the same size as the current locker rooms, and will include family changing rooms. The new multi-purpose building will be 9,100 sq. ft., and is slated to be tucked in the northwest corner of the site. It will serve to offer a place for basketball, volleyball, and adult wellness classes. The pool will be revamped and widened. The entire new plan is reduced in size by 29% from earlier versions, and is approximately 10,000 sq. ft. larger than the current buildings. The new plans have lessened the parking requirement to 96 spaces. The second parking lot, which was originally going to be used for staff only, has now been expanded to offer 44 spaces; it is accessed off San Ysidro Road. The main parking lot will house about 56 spaces, and any overflow will still go to Lower Manning Park, where there is an ongoing short-term lease agreement that is re-upped every six months. In order to adhere to Flood Control regulations, the main building and locker room building will be built with a waterproof siding, and include flood barriers that can be placed in front of the doors before a predicted storm. The design of the plans has also changed; DesignARC architect Mark Kirkhart has revised the formerly modern industrial style buildings to have more of a rustic, modern farmhouse feel. The buildings will have board and batten siding as well as

stone façade. The project will be heavily landscaped on the San Ysidro side, to buffer the facility from the street. The project is still in its conceptual stage, and was seen by the Montecito Association Land Use Committee and Montecito Board of Architectural Review in November. The Rosewood Miramar Beach Montecito Construction on Rick Caruso’s Rosewood Miramar Beach Montecito resort began in the late summer of 2016, and continued throughout 2017 and 2018, with an opening expected by the summer of this past year. Complications from weather as well as the Thomas Fire and subsequent mudslide delayed several aspects of construction, with the resort now slated to open February 11, 2019. The resort will be part of Rosewood Hotel & Resorts’ prestigious collection of luxurious destinations, and includes 124 refined guest rooms and 37 luxury suites located within lanai cottages, garden bungalows, and a classic main house. The property will feature an oceanfront restaurant and bar with an outdoor terrace, a signature restaurant in the main house, two swimming pools, a fitness center, and a wedding/event space accommodating up to 400 guests. The Miramar Beach Club, an exclusive beachfront, private members-only beach club, will open in tandem with the resort and feature an indoor/outdoor lounge, dining venues, beach access, and activities, and a private pool and cabanas. The final project entails 200,000 sq. ft. of development. The project was in front of the Board of the Montecito Architectural Review at various points throughout the year, including in February and March for architectural revisions to the exteri-

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In May, the Planning Commission unanimously approved a nine-unit condominium building at 1062 Coast Village Road

ors of several buildings, in May, June, July, and August for revisions to the landscaping, hardscaping, and lighting plans, and in December for revisions to the signage plan. Roundabouts In 2017, we reported extensively on two roundabout projects slated for Montecito; one at the junction of Olive Mill Road and Coast Village Road, and one at the intersection of North Jameson Lane and San Ysidro Road. Both roundabouts are considered parallel projects to the Highway 101 widening project. In August, a public meeting was held at Chase Palm Park Center for

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residents to learn more about the roundabouts. Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) has been working closely with staff from both the City of Santa Barbara and County of Santa Barbara to continue progress on these projects, and while the Olive Mill roundabout has been in the works since that time, the new roundabout at San Ysidro Road was only deemed necessary after it was determined that the intersection at San Ysidro and North Jameson fell short on meeting the level of service required by the County. A number of alternatives were considered for both sides of the San Ysidro Road bridge, including roundabouts at both inter-

The iconic building at 1250 Coast Village Road will be remodeled next year

sections on San Ysidro (one near the Miramar and one at North Jameson), as well as alternatives showing various combinations of all-way stops, traffic lights, and roundabouts. The recommendation of evaluators was a combination of a roundabout at the north intersections and all-waystop-control at the south intersections. According to County reps, this configuration meets County and Montecito Community Plan level of service requirements, addresses potential backups on the freeway off-ramps, provides continuity to the regional frontage road system with Olive Mill and Coast Village roads, minimizes footprint and impacts, and improves pedestrian and bicycle access through the interchange. Both roundabouts are in the preliminary design phase with no firm dates on design completion or construction. Coast Village Road Several upcoming development projects on Coast Village Road progressed this year. 1298 Coast Village Road: The most significant transformation of the year was at the corner of Olive Mill Road and Coast Village Road, where developer John Price is putting the finishing touches on his long awaited mixed-use building, nearly 15 years after the first application to build there was filed with the City of Santa Barbara. The project consisted of the demolition of the existing gas station and service bays, followed by the construction of a new three-story, mixed-use building with 4,800 sq. ft. of commercial space on the ground floor and 13,795 square feet of residential space on the second and third floors. The residential component includes two three-bedroom units, and three two-bedroom units. The project also includes a subterranean parking garage, which was mildly impacted by the 1/9 debris flow. We expect to see the opening of the building early in 2019; the commercial spaces will be filled by real estate company Village Properties, art gallery Heather James, and a wine tasting

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room by Folded Hills. 1062 Coast Village Road: In May, the Santa Barbara City Planning Commission unanimously approved a new condominium project slated for 1062 Coast Village Road, which includes nine two-story residential condominium units, one commercial condominium unit, and a subterranean garage with 23 parking spaces. The project is to be located on the property between Starbucks and China Palace; property owners David Back and Monika Draggoo plan to demolish the 10,000-sq.-ft. apartment building, carport, and hardscape, as well as remove seven mature canary island pine trees, and one gold medallion tree. The new project includes a stone façade commercial building facing Coast Village Road, as well as a subterranean garage with six commercial parking spaces and one commercial bicycle space. It also includes nine residential condominiums housed in five separate buildings, including private subterranean two-car garages that include private elevators into the units. The average 2,400-sq.-ft. three-bedroom condos include living space on the ground floor, bedrooms on the second floor, and rooftop decks. Architect Brian Cearnal, who also designed the Plaza Montecito building and two condos on the former property of Turk Hessellund Nursery, presented the project to various Montecito and Santa Barbara entities, including the Land Use Committee of the Montecito Association, both the Montecito Board of Architectural and Santa Barbara Architectural Review Board, the Montecito Planning Commission (for courtesy review), and the Coast Village Association. The project was revised to mitigate several issues, including neighborhood privacy issues concerning noise and lighting on roof decks, and the removal of onsite trees. Neighbor concerns were addressed by adjusting the parapets on the rooftop decks, eliminating two “Juliet” balconies, and frosting the stairway windows. The tree concerns were also mitigated: the initial 27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

proposal included the removal of all onsite trees; now, a greater setback is eliminating the need to remove so many trees, and 42 trees will be planted. The Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve the project as well as two modifications including an interior setback modification and a modification that would allow for lesser distance between the buildings, both of which City staff conclude are minor and have a negligible impact. The project’s design was further reviewed and approved by the Architectural Board of Review in September. Once ground is broken, it’s expected the development will take 16 months to complete. 1250 Coast Village Road: Just last week we reported on the proposed revitalization of one of Coast Village Road’s most iconic buildings, which is home to Village Properties, Riskin Partners, Synergy Lending, and the Warner Group Architects. The Warner Group, which has been a tenant in the building for 20 years, is designing the remodeling project, which architect Thiep Cung calls a “complete facelift.” The project plans include a completely revamped exterior façade of the 1991 building, including a new paint job and color scheme with warm grey tones, new exterior tile floors in a porcelain herringbone pattern, remodeled roof to a more contemporary patina standing seam roof, replacement of the awnings, and a new landscape plan. The project will also bring the bathrooms up to ADA compliance, as well as replace the elevator, widen the ramps, and add ADA van parking in the downstairs parking lot. The plans for the remodel were in front of the City’s Architectural Board of Review in December, and will be back for more conceptual review in January 2019.

allowed in commercial zones as well as a new overlay (dubbed the Coastal Zone Historic Overlay Zone), located in Montecito. That overlay spanned from South Jameson Lane to the beach, between part of Danielson Road and Posilipo Lane. Roads including Edgecliff Lane, Miramar Beach, Humphrey Road, and Eucalyptus Lane were included in the small overlay district. The Coastal Commission denied the ban, citing too few overnight accommodations for coastal visitors, and extremely high demand for the County’s campground units. In response to the Coastal Commission hearing, the BOS directed staff to formulate ordinance amendment language that will allow the grandfathering in of STRs anywhere in the Coastal Zone; owners must show they’ve been paying Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) for the last five years. If an STR owner sells their home, the right to continue to shortterm rent would be extinguished with the sale. Owners would also have to renew their business license every year, and be subject to regulations.

Accessory Dwelling Units In September, amendments to the County Land Use and Development Code, Montecito Land Use and Development Code, and the Coastal Zoning Ordinance to revise existing development standards for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) went into effect; the amendments were approved by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors in August. Because the County had yet to pass its own ordinance language regarding ADUs, Montecito and other unincorporated areas had been governed by the state-mandated ADU laws, which went into effect January 1, 2017. California Assembly Bill 2299 and Senate Bill 1069 set out to reduce the barriers that homeowners once had Short-Term Rentals when trying to gain approvals for The grace period to operate Short these “granny units,” expanding the Term Rentals (STRs) ended on October capacity to accommodate their devel1, 2018. In 2017, the County Board of opment in order to provide additionSupervisors adopted ordinances which al rental housing in residential areas prohibit STRs in inland residential zones, throughout California. Since the passwith the exception of “homestays.” The ing of the State laws, there have been homestay portion of the ordinance lan- 160 ADU applications in the County, guage was in direct response to com- with over 60 approved in Montecito. munity members who voiced concern A streamlined process has been develover not being able to supplement their oped at the County level, with ADUs income with short-term rental income. to be approved ministerially without The County has allocated funds for the discretionary review if they meet cerregulation of homestays, but it’s unclear tain standards. If an ADU is located at this point what that will look like. The within an already existing portion of County gave vacation rental owners a single-family or multi-family dwella year grace period before beginning ing or accessory building, and has regulation. an independent exterior entrance and Still upNOW for discussion is howFURNITURE/DECOR STRs is within the FOR size CONSIGNMENT limits, it will be WE ACCEPT FINE should be regulated in the Coastal exempt from requiring a land use Zone. In May, the California Coastal permit. These ADUs will not be subCommission denied the BOS’ ordi- ject to parking standards. If an ADU nance amendments pertaining to is partially within an existing buildthe prohibition of STRs. The BOS ing or a new addition or separate proposed that STRs would also be building is being built for it, the ADU 27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

must comply with design, height, size, and parking requirements, and the Planning Director may request review of the project from the Chair of Montecito Board of Architectural Review or the Historic Landmarks Advisory Commission (HLAC). All ADUs will be required to show approvals from the local sanitary district or show approved onsite wastewater treatment systems. Earlier this year, draft ordinance language was circulated to both the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission and Montecito Planning Commission, who both gave recommendations of added language. Staff removed several of those recommendations, including lot coverage, the requirement that a homeowner must live in one of the dwellings, and site preparation standards. Staff did revise the language to allow for parking lifts if additional parking is required. It was also clarified that ADUs cannot be rented out short term (fewer than 30 days) or be sold separately from the principle dwelling. Detached ADUs will also be regulated in location and size; the maximum size of an ADU is 8% of the net lot area, up to 1,200 sq. ft. The County may soon need to revise the newly-passed ordinance language, as the State is currently revising its requirements via AB 2890, which prohibits standards for lot size or lot coverage, shortens application review from 120 to 60 days, and increases the minimum size of ADUs from 150 sq. ft. to 800 sq. ft. If approved, the law will also expand the types of ADUs that are exempt from planning permits, and will allow multiple ADUs on a qualifying lot.

School Happenings

In 2017, we noted the hiring of two new school superintendents in Montecito: Anthony Ranii was hired at Montecito Union School, and Dr. Amy Alzina took the reigns at Cold Spring School. Both superintendents, as well as school leaders on every campus in Montecito, were put to the test this year.

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In February, the MUS board of trustees held a special meeting to discuss several issues related to the mudslide including its effect on the school’s finances, enrollment, and facility. Because of the school’s basic aid status, its revenue was impacted when reassessments of property values were conducted after the mudslide. The school is expected to lose $1.6 million in revenues. The school’s enrollment decreased as well, as many families moved out of the district. It was determined that the school would need to cut several teachers and staff members to account for the new budget cuts. The board also decided to allow students not living in the district a grace period until the end of the 2018/19 school year to attend MUS; 24 families with 32 students are taking advantage of the grace period. The campus was a hub for many community meetings, forums, and special events related to the mudslide. Ranii even donated space to the Bucket Brigade, allowing the group to store equipment at a locked facility on the site. Several boulders and rocks left over from the debris flow were also temporarily stored on a portion of

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the campus. The school board continues to work on plans for upgrading the campus facilities, and it is expected that necessary facilities improvements will be done with in-house funds instead of a tax bond. In December longtime board president Gwyn Lurie retired from her position on the board, after eight years of service. The vacancy left by Lurie will be filled by Susannah Osley, who will join board members Chad Chase, Kate Murphy, Peter van Duinwyk, and Marilyn Bachman.

Cold Spring School Dr. Alzina dealt with similar issues on the Cold Spring School campus, adding to the morose reality that two students from Cold Spring School were killed in the mudslide. CSS faced a $485,000 budget shortfall due to the mudslides, and started a fundraising campaign to close the gap. In September, Dr. Alzina announced the school had received a $300,000 grant to help pay for key staff members and a counseling program. In May a memorial bench was installed near the playground in memory of the two Cold Spring students lost in the mudslide: six-yearold Peerawat “Pasta” Sutthithepa and 12-year-old Sawyer Corey. The bench was created by a local member of the community, out of a fallen sycamore tree that fell during the debris flow. Crane Country Day School The Crane campus on San Leandro Lane was opened as a base for firefighters and rescue personnel who came to help search for victims in the first few days of the mudslide aftermath. The students, after being taught at four satellite locations, returned to the campus in early February. In March, the school hosted the first ever Respond-A-Thon and Spirit Day, raising funds to benefit the Santa Barbara County Animal Services, the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade, Direct Relief International, Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue, and the Unity Shoppe. In September, the Crane campus was used to host Montecito Trails Foundation’s annual BBQ. The BBQ was an opportunity to thank MTF

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supporters and trail enthusiasts. In lieu of the usual silent auction, the BBQ was a time for community celebration with a raffle, food, and an emphasis on the trails. The Crane Country Fair went off without a hitch in October, bringing a carnival-like atmosphere to the campus for a day of fun, food, games, and community. Next year the school will mark its 90th anniversary with an array of celebratory events.

Hellos & Good-byes

Our local business districts welcomed new businesses and said goodbye to several others this year. In April we saw the opening of Frankland’s Crab & Co. at Montecito Inn. Chef-owners Phillip Frankland Lee and Margarita Kallas-Lee opened the casual seafood shack where Montecito Café’s bar area once was, to the left of the main driveway. The eatery offered local seafood like ridgeback shrimp, wild-caught crab, and clams and oysters, fish & chips, chowder and more. Four months later, the owners reinvented the concept, deciding instead to turn it into Chaplin’s, a sleek lounge serving cocktails that were popular in the roaring twenties. “We heard the community loud and clear,” said Frankland Lee. In August, Frankland Lee and Kallas-Lee also opened The Monarch,

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In July we saw the departure of Dance Fever Studio from Coast Village Walk, and in August Antoinette Boutique moved into the space, after occupying a nearby space in the Walk for 43 years! Coast Village Plaza at 1187 Coast Village Road welcomed two new tenants this year. Renaud’s Patisserie & Bistro opened in August, with owner Renaud Gonthier bringing his “taste of Paris” to Montecito. The space was transformed to resemble a chic, French-style bistro, with dark colors, brass fixtures, marble tabletops, exposed piping, contemporary tile floors, and pops of muted red. The menu is nearly identical to the other Renaud’s locations, with specialty egg dishes, baked goods, French toast, yogurt, oatmeal, and more for breakfast, and an array of salads, sandwiches, French onion soup, and mini raviolis for lunch, as well as the usual sweet and savory baked items Renaud’s is famous for. In November we welcomed Khao Kaeng, the newest concept from the owners behind the widely popular Empty Bowl Gourmet Noodle Bar 27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

Bob and Ellie Patterson of Here’s the Scoop announced they are looking for a buyer for their gelato and sorbet shop

at the Santa Barbara Public Market. Co-owners Jerry Lee, Emre Balli, and Nui Pannak bring their elevated Thai cuisine to Coast Village, with scratchmade everything including the housemade curry and chuchi pastes, stir-fry sauce, peanut sauce, and more. The aesthetic at Khao Kaeng – which is translated to mean “curry on rice” in Thai – is contemporary and chic, and includes Asian art and artifacts from Lee’s travels. The stone wear serving dishes and plates are all artisan made, curated to showcase the food, and golden silverware featuring the image of the Buddha was imported from Thailand. A partially exposed wine cellar near the bar boasts an array of handpicked selections, some of which are not offered by any other restaurants. Next year we can expect the closing of Giovanni’s after over three decades; Ca’Dario is slated to move into that space. Next door, Here’s the Scoop owners Ellie and Bob Patterson are looking for someone to take over the thriving gelato and sorbet business that they’ve had for over 14 years. The Pattersons say their

Rachel Greenspan and Brendan Smith opened an upscale pizza parlor, Bettina, in Montecito Country Mart

ideal buyer is someone who wants to become entrenched in the community, and carry on the traditions of the shop, including the costume contest the Pattersons host each year on Halloween, and the wall of kids’ pictures. October marked the opening of Bettina in Montecito Country Mart. Husband and wife team, Brendan Smith and Rachel Greenspan, have brought their Neapolitan-style pizza to Montecito, along with simple salads and small plates; a menu Greenspan describes as “California cuisine with an Italian accent.” The beautifully

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remodeled 2000-sq-ft restaurant, once the home of Tsunami, was designed with the help of Los Angeles based designer and architect, Barbara Bestor, and seats about 40 patrons with a mix of leather booths, tables, and bar seating. Five counter seats overlook the open kitchen, allowing diners to watch Smith and his team man the 850-degree Italian pizza oven, which cools to 550 degrees by the morning, and is the perfect temperature to bake loaves of homemade bread used for other menu items. The restaurant also

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101 at Olive Mill Road. In 2008, the traffic count for that now-closed southbound 101 on-ramp was 4,450 cars and trucks per day, or 1.6 million vehicles per year diverted onto Coast Village Road. This error in planning and judgment is responsible for the almost daily traffic horror show on Coast Village Road and Coast Village Circle. Phase 2. Widening of 101 from Mussel Shoals to Carpinteria (2012-2015); Project Cost: $100 million, funded from Prop 1B Bond funding. The 101 freeway was widened to three lanes in each direction from the Ventura County line near Mussel Shoals, past La Conchita, to Carpinteria, a distance of six miles. Included in the project was reconstruction of the Bates Road overpass, and upgrades to selected on/off ramps. Phase 3. Linden Avenue and Casitas Pass overpasses in Carpinteria (20162019, depending upon weather and utility relocations). Project Cost: $60 million, funded by Regional Improvement Program (RIP) funding. The Linden Avenue and Casitas Pass overpasses are now being reconfigured, reconstructed, and widened to three lanes. Most on-off ramps are being reconstructed or improved. Local circulation improvements include roadway extensions, new bike paths, longer overcrossings, and wider and safer on/off ramps. Via Real is being extended from east of Carpinteria Creek to connect to Linden Avenue to improve local traffic circulation. Carpinteria Creek bridges have been raised 10 feet higher for greater flood protection. New bike paths and a new roundabout near Linden Avenue are included. Phase 4. Widening of Highway 101 from Carpinteria to Santa Barbara (20202030); Project Cost: $585 million, funded by Measure A, RIP) Senate Bill 1 and federal and state gas taxes. Status: start date of the five phases: 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, and 4E completion dates unknown. The widening of Highway 101 to three lanes in each direction from Carpinteria to Santa Barbara, known as Phase 4, covers a distance of 10.9 miles. The widening is expected to be completed in five segments starting in Carpinteria, moving northward, depending upon available funding. The cost per mile of each widening segment becomes progressively more expensive and complex as the widening moves northward from Carpinteria to Santa Barbara. Segment 4A. Widening within the City of Carpinteria boundaries; Project Cost: $87 million funded by RIP, Measure A and SB1 Trade Corridors Enhancement Program (TCEP). Start Date: Hoping for mid-2020. Completion Date: Possibly 2023. Approval Authority: City of Carpinteria, California Coastal Commission. Caltrans will widen to three lanes in each direction from Bailard Avenue to the northern Carpinteria city limit at Santa Claus Lane. Detailed design is at 95% for freeway improvements that include new bridges over Franklin Creek and Santa Monica creeks. All on/off ramps will be updated. Design details have been approved by Carpinteria’s Architectural Review Board and are scheduled to go to the Planning Commission in 2019. This project is said to be shovel ready for construction, beginning in 2020. The California Coastal Commission, which must sign-off on permits, is concerned about the wetland buffer encroachment. It is demanding added funding for bikeways, buffered multi-use pathways to enhance the California Coastal Trail on the ocean-side, pedestrian trails on the mountainside, and increased coastal access, in return for its approval. Segment 4B. Widening from the Carpinteria city-line to the North Padaro Lane interchange; Project Cost: $140 million. Start Date: Hopefully mid-2021. Completion Date: Possibly late 2024. Approval Authority: County of Santa Barbara. Initial bridge designs have begun for County segments at the South Padaro Lane undercrossing, Arroyo Parida Creek bridge and the Toro Canyon Creek bridge. Segment 4C. Summerland widening from the North Padaro Lane intersec-

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tion to the Sheffield intersection; Project Cost: $89 million. Tentative Schedule: Unknown. Possibly 2021-2024 in conjunction with 4B. Approval Authority: County of Santa Barbara. The Sheffield intersection will be totally rebuilt. The Montecito community needs to focus its efforts and limited voice on trying to build a scenic Sheffield interchange. Bridge widening for the Evans Avenue underpass and ramp improvements are also planned. Segments 4D and 4E. Widening from Sheffield Drive interchange to the currently widened 101 beyond the Cabrillo/Hot Springs interchange; Project Cost: $250 million, but is as yet unfunded, unpermitted, and unscheduled. Could be started as early as 2025; completed by 2029-30. Project Authority: San Ysidro interchange, County of Santa Barbara; Olive Mill and Cabrillo interchanges, City of Santa Barbara. Because of the narrow right-of-way through Montecito, this is the toughest and most expensive widening on the entire 101. Phases 4D & E will widen Highway 101 to three lanes in each direction between Romero Creek in Montecito (west of Sheffield Drive) and Sycamore Creek in the City of Santa Barbara (east of Salinas Street). Creek bridges will be replaced at Montecito, San Ysidro, Oak, and Romero creeks. The design phase will integrate some operational and safety improvements on Highway 101 and the ramps. Our community needs to focus its efforts and limited voice on mitigating the prospect of a thin concrete median barrier with no landscaping; maximizing outside shoulder widths; and the practical effect of some lanes reduced from 12 foot to 10 ½ feet to fit the right-of-way. The San Ysidro Road southbound on-ramp, also known as the Posilipo Lane ramp, past the Rosewood Miramar Beach Resort, is difficult to navigate because of its non-standard, shortened acceleration length. It has been referred to as “an accident waiting to happen.” What is needed is 1) to widen the right-of-way by acquiring and removing the two historic homes on the right as you enter the southbound 101, and 2) to have negotiated with the Miramar, prior to its construction approvals, for a widened South Jameson right-of-way. Neither of these happened under former County Supervisor Salud Carbajal. The southbound off-ramp at San Ysidro is also negatively impacted by its proximity to the Olive Mill on-ramp. In addition, no additional lanes are planned for the San Ysidro Road overpass over the 101, as is the case for both overpasses in Carpinteria. A new, but unfunded roundabout at North Jameson and San Ysidro is in preliminary design. Olive Mill Road. The northbound 101 off-ramp feeds directly into the 5-way intersection at Coast Village Road and Olive Mill. A new, but as yet unfunded, roundabout is being proposed by the City of Santa Barbara. Hot Springs-Cabrillo Boulevard. The overpass over Cabrillo Boulevard will be rebuilt. A new southbound on-ramp replacing the left-hand ramp closed during the previous Milpas to Hot Springs widening will be added. The City of Santa Barbara has negotiated widening the Cabrillo Blvd Union Pacific railroad bridge overpass to better accommodate a right-lane turn onto the 101 southbound. Reopening the southbound on-ramp at Cabrillo Blvd is essential to reducing traffic congestion on Coast Village Road. The current left-lane northbound off-ramp at Cabrillo will be replaced with a safer traditional right-lane exit, exiting onto Cabrillo Boulevard near the current Coast Village Road traffic circle. Hermosillo Drive-Coast Village Road Exit. The northbound off-ramp at Hermosillo was originally considered for closure or scheduled to be retained as the only northbound off-ramp for the Cabrillo Interchange. Thanks to vocal efforts by the Hermosillo Homeowners’ Association and the Middle Road Homeowners’ Association during the Draft EIR comment period, retaining the Hermosillo Drive-Coast Village Road exit with a second northbound exit provided to Cabrillo Boulevard was included in the Caltrans preferred final F-modified plan for the 101 improvement. Los Patos Way Southbound Exit. The existing southbound 101 off-ramp with the undersized railroad bridge clearance will be closed.

The Bottom Line

After 30 years of planning and false steps, the majority of Montecito residents say, “Get on with it.” Although it will be painful, we should widen the 101 as quickly as possible. We cannot function as a community without having a more efficient commuter corridor for our large and growing Ventura-based work force. This community and the political leaders at SBCAG need to get on the same page, develop a passion for the exchange of ideas, a voracious appetite for real solutions and the wisdom to recognize that gridlock and further delay are not our friends. •MJ

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has a full liquor license, with a mix of new and old-world wines, the majority of which are organic, biodynamic, or natural. In 2019 we expect the Mart to welcome Caffe Luxxe – an artisanal espresso and coffee shop – and Merci Montecito, the newest iteration of Merci To Go, which had a space at the Mart a few years back. In October, we marked the opening of Synergy Lending, a recently acquired subsidiary of Mutual of Omaha that opened in the former home of Shine Blow Dry Bar at 1250 Coast Village Road. The nationwide mortgage lending company, which is

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July after three years in business. We also mourn the loss of Trattoria Mollie, which enjoyed a 22-year-run at 1250 Coast Village Road. Among her biggest fans were Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, and Katy Perry. Mollie just never fully recovered from the January 2018 event either. The good news is that the Ethiopian-born chef continues to serve her popular fare in the new Mollie’s at 1218 State Street, next to the Granada Theatre. In the upper village, business owners were evacuated for several weeks in January following the debris flow. After reopening, it took many weeks for shoppers and diners to return to the business district, as many Montecito residents remained displaced. Despite the loss of business, the majority of shops in the upper village remain in business, and a few celebrated significant anniversaries. Skin Essentials next to Pane e Vino celebrated 20 years in business in July; owner Julie Phillips has had her current space since 2000, offering facials, microdermabrasion, lymphatic treatments, peels, permanent makeup, body exfoliation, waxing, and more. Phillips attributes her success to repeat clients and referrals, and celebrated the anniversary with an open house for clients and neighbors. We said goodbye to Brostrom’s Antiques, which closed its doors after over twenty years in business. Known for hand selected Asian antique, vintage, and handmade furniture, the store, owned by Allan Brostrom, was an upper village mainstay with a prominent location on San Ysidro Road. In August we bid adieu to Giuliana Meta, who sold her upper village shop to a new owner, who is carrying on the tradition of the haute couture offerings of the boutique. Her husband George Meta, of Meta Jewelers, also retired.

Sharon Byrne was hired as the Montecito Association’s new executive director

Sandy Stahl and Robert Kemp joined the Montecito Association Board of Directors

Montecito Milestones Montecito Association Happenings The annual meeting of the Montecito Association was pushed back a month in 2018, due to the cancelation of the scheduled meeting on January 9. The annual meeting marked the departure of board members Monica Babich, Aaron Budgor, and Laura Bridley, and welcomed two new board members: Linnea Pattillo and Larry Waldinger.

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Montecito Association, in collaboration with the Montecito Community Foundation, held an event to unveil a plaque in the upper village in September, dedicated to the victims of the disaster

The executive committee was voted on unanimously, naming Charlene Nagel as president, Harry Kolb as first vice president, Peter van Duinwyk as second vice president,

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Dr. Barbara Mathews as secretary, and Michele Saltoun as treasurer. The February meeting hosted reps from the County including Office of Emergency Management Director Rob Lewin, First District Supervisor Das Williams, and Director of Recovery Matt Pontes, all of whom spoke on the recovery efforts. Much of the beginning of the year the Association board of directors, as well as the Land Use Committee, heard updates on recovery and rebuilding from various entities in Montecito, including the Bucket Brigade, the Montecito Trails Foundation, the school superintendents, the Partnership for Resilient

Communities, Montecito Sanitary and Water Districts, and County representatives. In August, the Association welcomed some new faces, as executive director Allison Marcillac resigned in order to focus her time on navigating the rebuilding process after losing her home in the 1/9 debris flow. New executive director Sharon Byrne joined the Association after her most recent role as the executive director of the Coast Village Association. Two new board members were also voted in: Sandy Stahl and Robert Kemp, both longtime Montecito residents and local realtors, who are heavily

The Village Fourth parade had one of the largest turnouts ever in 2018

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The City Council will review proposed amendments to the Average Unit-Size Density Incentive Program (AUD Program) in Title 30 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code. The proposed amendments will (1) require two on-site parking spaces for AUD Program units with three or more bedrooms, in projects located outside of the Central Business District, with an exemption for 100 percent affordable and senior housing; (2) prohibit AUD Program units from future conversion to a hotel use; and (3) remove mobilehome park properties from receiving AUD Program parking incentives. You are invited to attend this public hearing. The agenda, staff report, and exhibits will be available on Thursday, January 10, 2019 santabarbaraca.gov/gov/cityhall/council/meetings/videos.asp. Additional information about this work effort and background material can be found at santabarbaraca.gov/services/planning/mpe/aud_program. Written comments are welcome and should be submitted prior to the hearing by mail to City Clerk, P.O. Box 1990 Santa Barbara, CA 93102. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to gain access to, comment at, or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at (805) 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements in most cases. To request an interpreter for a specific item during the hearing, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at (805) 564-5305, at least 48 hours in advance of the hearing. Para solicitar un intérprete de Español para esta audiencia, por favor llame al (805) 564-5305, al menos 48 horas antes de la audiencia. For more information, please email Jessica Metzger, AICP, Project Planner at AUD@SantaBarbaraCA.gov or call (805) 564-5470 ext. 4582.

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This year’s Beautification Committee planned a special Beautification Day

involved in the community. The MA hosted and planned a plethora of community events this year. In July, the MA held its popular Village Fourth parade and bbq, drawing out thousands of people to watch over 100 first responders walk in the parade. In September the group hosted a forum on governance for approximately 50 local residents and stakeholders who came out to listen to Paul Hood, executive officer of the Local Agency Formation Commission, and Dave Mulinex, regional public affairs manager for the League of California, discuss governance options for Montecito. Also in September, the MA, in collaboration with the Montecito Community Foundation, held an

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event to unveil a plaque in the upper village, dedicated to the victims of the disaster. Nearly 100 people gathered at the corner green to hear All Saintsby-the-Sea Rev. Aimée Eyer-Delevett, who spoke about her experience on the morning of January 9, 2018, before unveiling the plaque. In October, the Association co-hosted a Storm Readiness meeting at Montecito Union School, unveiling the newest evacuation maps and the County’s new Ready, Set, Go, emergency action plan, which outlines specific actions to take place in the days leading up to a predicted storm. The meeting also touched on the multiple ways the County plans on notifying the public during emergencies. November marked the 33rd annual 27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

Beautification Day, where over 100 members of the community turned out to help the Bucket Brigade beautify several areas of Montecito. With breakfast sponsored by the Rosewood Miramar Resort, lunch donated by Montecito Village Grocery and San Ysidro Ranch (and prepared by Montecito firefighters), the event was a collaborative effort, and multiple groups came out to man tables and provide community information, including the Montecito Sanitary District, Montecito Water District, MERRAG, Montecito Trails Foundation, the Montecito Library, and others. Bucket Brigade co-founder Abe Powell was honored as Citizen of the Year. In December, the MA hosted an inaugural Holiday Magic in Montecito Village event, offering family friendly fun and activities, with upper village merchants offering special treats and shopping incentives. The idea for the event came to fruition following the January mudslide, when shop owners in the upper village were evacuated for several weeks when the area became a disaster exclusion zone. “It became obvious that many of these business owners didn’t know each other well and we needed to unite,” said organizer Sandy Stahl, whose office is next to the post office. Stahl organized the merchants via a newly formed group called the Montecito Village Merchants Organization. Montecito Association Outreach Chair Megan Orloff helped plan the event with committee members Stahl, Robert Kemp, Laura Bridley, Kathi King, Houghton Hyatt, Jean von Wittenberg, and MA executive director Sharon Byrne. Coast Village Association Happenings The Coast Village Association was also very active this year, helping business owners navigate their way back to their shuttered stores following the fire and debris flow. While Highway 101 remained closed for nearly two weeks, Coast Village Road became a thoroughfare for an incredible number of trucks and emergency personnel. Following the disaster, the CVA opened a temporary Recovery Assistance Center as a hub for the American Red Cross and other disaster volunteers. Traffic was a significant initiative taken on by the CVA in 2018: the

be used as barricades during special events on the street. There is also discussion about revamping the current speed bumps in the parking aisle, and potentially adding more. The CVA’s Events Committee put on several events to bring awareness to the street and its merchants, including helping host a viewing party for the Amgen Tour, a shopping Spring Fling in April, a fashion event in November, and a special holiday tree lighting in December. Emceed by CVA board president Bob Ludwick, the inaugural tree lighting featured student singers from the local elementary schools, a visit from Santa, and cookies donated by the Four Seasons Resort the Rick Lemmo, Jeannine’s Bakery owner Alison Hardey, Sharon Byrne, and Red Cross representatives at the Biltmore. Coast Village Association Recovery Assistance Center The CVA is currently in the planning stages of a large-scale food-tasting event, the Taste of Coast Village, scheduled for May 2019. Coast Village Association board president Bob Ludwick with Santa Claus at the Holiday Tree Lighting event in December

Traffic & Safety Committee, chaired by Thorn Robertson, spearheaded a project to install temporary stop signs on Coast Village Road at both ends of Coast Village Circle, which will soon be permanent. The now four-way stop at Butterfly/Coast Village Circle/ Coast Village Road needs some revision, as the location of the stop sign on Coast Village Road traveling west bound is not as prominent as City reps would like to see. Once a plan is finalized, the stop signs will be made permanent on both ends of the street, along with two new stop signs that have been installed within the parking aisles. The crosswalk that spans midblock between Villa Fontana and the former Silverhorn building will

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soon have a lighted, flashing crosswalk signal. The committee is also helping the City to make the k-rail speed deterrents in the parking aisles permanent; they will be replaced with more aesthetically pleasing planter boxes containing fruit trees. The plantMontJournal_Decdember22nd'18:Layout er boxes will be movable, so they can

Special Districts Montecito Fire Protection District Montecito Fire Chief Chip Hickman started out the year singing the praises of his department during the Thomas Fire, and again for their efforts in saving lives during and after the mudslide. Chief of Operations, Kevin Taylor, was an integral part of the teams assembled to discuss recovery and preparation for future disasters. MFPD is set to incur a 13% loss in revenues because of property tax reassessment following the debris flow; it cost the District $11 million to fight the fire and subsequent mudflow. In May, the Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors recognized every one of its employees for their performance during the Thomas Fire and mudflow. The firefighters and support staff, who helped navigate the successful rescue of over 800 commu1

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 3 1st Thursday – After a delightfully eventful December in downtown Santa Barbara, things slow down a bit for the first 1st Thursday of the year, as winter sets in and folks save up their energy for the upcoming film festival. But if the pickings are slimmer than the turkey carcass following Christmas dinner, there are still some meaty choices to meander amid the galleries and art-related venues during the early evening of the self-guided art and culture walk. Thoughts of springtime might show up in full bloom at Gallery 113 (1114 State Street, La Arcada Court #8, 805-965-6611) where Santa Barbara Art Association Artist of the Month Sally Hamilton exhibits a series of works inspired by her own garden, with other featured artists including Katy Zappala, Manny Lopez, Michael Marzolla, Sue Slater, and Suemae Willhite… Sullivan Goss Gallery’s (11 East Anapamu Street, 805-730-1460) new exhibition also takes a look at nature, albeit looking up toward Father Sky rather than down on the ground with Mother Earth. “Ahead in the Clouds” is a survey covering a full century of paintings of beautiful cloudy skies. Also on view at the gallery is “100 Grand,” the annual show featuring 100 pieces of artwork on sale for

$1,000 or less, and “Mentors and Makers: The Artists of Westmont College,” comprised of a rare offcampus exhibition of works created by the art faculty at the Montecito college. (The latter includes Nathan Huff’s striking and apparently gravitydefying 2016 sculpture “Still Point,” fashioned out of a handmade boat, found chandelier, and welded chain… “Photography: Past, Present & Future,” at Glenn Dallas Gallery (927 State Street), features a panel discussion with field professionals followed by a Q&A session with the audience, plus a curated selection of cell phone photography… Museum Teaching Artists at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State Street, 805-9634364) guide visitors in creating a three-dimensional collage using muslin, wood, and string, inspired by the work of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, in the Family Resource Center. Or you can wander the galleries taking in all the current exhibitions… Bright, bold work by Inga Guzyte, Dan Levin, and Hugh Margerum, who employ recycled materials, skate decks, and pigments to celebrate creativity in texture, color and process, decorate the walls at Youth Interactive (1219 State Street, 805-617-6421), the new expansive mentor/makers space for teens other school-age artists… The single selection on the performing arts

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 Sliding in Safely – There haven’t been a whole lot of famous female jazz trombone players. Fact is, most of us would be hardpressed to name even one. Yet somehow Santa Barbara spawned one of its own in the person of Mariel Bildsten, who first honed her chops right here in town before heading east to the jazz Mecca of New York City. Bildsten graduated from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in December 2015 after studying under such teachers and mentors as Elliot Mason, Steve Turre, Vincent Gardner, Sam Burtis, Jimmy Owens, Mike LeDonne, Reginald Workman, and Jane Ira Bloom. Now she works as a bandleader and side-woman in New York, playing mostly in jazz big bands and small groups, plus providing brassy boldness to world and Caribbean music, classical, funk, R&B, and Latin music bands. She has performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Apollo Theater, and the Chicago Jazz Festival, among other venues, sharing the stage with the likes of Dee Dee Bridgewater, Roy Hargrove, Wycliffe Gordon, and Lew Soloff, to name a few. Bildsten returns to Santa Barbara every year around Christmastime, showing up to lead a small ensemble at SOhO, where her shows last year earned rave reviews from local scribes, who praised her technique, tone and wide range. She’s back there tonight for another early-evening show that might just blow the doors off the place. WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30 Raw Fun – Most clubs have a bit of the skitters about booking bands the night before New Year’s Eve, figuring folks are saving their shekels for the big night out. Not so with SOhO, which has made a habit of partying hearty on New Year’s Eve every year for decades, including periodic shows starring Kenny Loggins, the longtime Santa Barbara-based singer-songwriter who had revved up many memorable sets of cover songs with local luminaries over the years. For the night before 2018 gives way to 2019, SOhO instead teams up with another local legend, the vivacious and soaring vocalist Leslie Lembo, whose band Raw Silk has been a Santa Barbara institution dating back to the late 1980s. Joined by Del Franklin on Tenor, Alto and Soprano Saxophone, EWI and backing vocals; George Friedenthal on keyboards and vocal; and Donzell Davis on drums, plus likely special guests, Lembo and her aptly-named band should have the crowd leaning in to closing out the year by gyrating for hours on the dance floor and snuggling up to her sensual soul sounds. And with an early evening start time, you might still be able to get a good night’s sleep to get ready for the actual New Year’s Eve. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

front is the aptly named Chill Point Band, a local group comprised of Brian Fox, Doral Perkins, and William Fiedtkou, formerly of Georgetown (with frequently backed vocalist Lois Mahalia). They’ll play funky rhythm and blues from Motown and beyond on the corner of State and Anapamu streets, in front of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Bring your dancing shoes, because you might want to move to stay warm. WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: Lower State Street and environs COST: free INFO: (805) 962-2098 or www.downtownsb.org/ events/1st-thursday FRIDAY, JANUARY 4 Clean Standup Comedy – Eschewing the F-bombs, fart jokes, and other scatalogical humor, Jason Love kicks off the New Year with his offensive-free show that has won him favor on TV gigs and appearances on HBO, Comedy Central, America’s Got Talent, and more than 20 other national broadcasts. Love, who created and runs the monthly comedy show at Carrillo Recreation Center downtown, engages the audience with his wit and insights, and also plays live music, which has made him popular at such clubs as Hollywood Improv and Caroline’s on Broadway as well as corporate gigs including Google, Chevron, Farmers Insurance, and Costco. Joining Love in his return to the Alcazar are fellow “clean” standups David Studebaker and Karen Rontowski. WHEN: 7:30

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pm WHERE: Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $12 INFO: (805) 684-6380 or www.thealcazar.org SATURDAY, JANUARY 5 Ice Those Vocals – We locals may not get a lot of nights where the thermometer dips below 32 degrees, but early January is still the perfect time to revisit the hottest icy animated movie of all time. Experience the modern Disney classic Frozen like never before in an all-new, full-length sing-along edition where you can join in and follow the lyrics with a bouncing Frozen snowflake. Become part of the adventure with Anna as she sets off on an epic journey – teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and Olaf the snowman – to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. The enchanting thrills should only multiply as the whole family lifts not only their hopes but also their voices as the tale unfolds in the icy fantasyland. The free event even features a meet-and-greet with Elsa prior to showtime. WHEN: 2 pm WHERE: Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: free INFO: (805) 684-6380 or www.thealcazar.org THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 Rose Regales Ronstadt – Five years ago, Parkinson’s disease robbed the world of Linda Ronstadt’s powerful 27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

FRIDAY, JANUARY 4 It’s All Relative – Maybe it’s something in the water. Or perhaps a fondness for family springing from the previous five weeks of holiday gatherings. Or someone’s been binging on reruns of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, the satirical ‘70s soap opera starring a young Billy Crystal. Whatever the reason, SOhO has booked three bands that carry repetitive male relative names over a span of 11 days, beginning tonight with Uncle Uncle. The local group led by singer-songwriter-guitarist Kevin Cappon, a folk-rock foursome that favors melodies both inviting and abrasive to carry lyrics covering everyday topics, released their debut EP last summer. January 12 brings the avant-garde LA rock band Man Man, followed two days later by the local club debut of the Brother Brothers, the folksinging duo featuring identical twins David and Adam Moss, who wowed the crowd opening for the all-female trio I’m With Her at the Lobero this fall. Mother Mother, Father Father, and Sister Sister can’t be far behind. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www. sohosb.com

voice, which had graced rock and pop songs and jazz and torch ballads since the late 1960s. Thankfully, there’s Rosemary Butler, who gained popularity herself in the late 1970s and early ‘80s through working on countless sessions and touring as a backup singer for not only Ronstadt, but many of the other superstars of the era, including Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Whitney Houston, and Ray Charles. And that was after she’d already been leading her own rock band and scoring hits in the ‘60s. Butler emerged as a lead vocalist once again earlier this decade with a terrific new solo album in 2013 and started playing regular gigs at SOhO and clubs up and

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9 Singin’ at SOhO – Aside from educating controversial Supreme Court justices, Yale University also has a reputation for housing more a cappella singing groups per capita than any other college in the land. The Ivy League school boasts 16 of them, most famously the Whiffenpoofs, the world’s oldest and best known collegiate male a cappella ensemble founded way back in 1909. But The Baker’s Dozen are no slouches, either, having come together at the Connecticut college more than 70 years ago in the summer of 1947, when the original thirteen men with an unrivaled passion for music and revelry banded together to form the dynamic brotherhood. The group practices at least six hours a week, bands together at an off-campus house that also serves as living quarters for members in their junior year, and performs all over the Yale campus and around the country in schools, clubs, restaurants, and private parties. Now consisting of 16 men, the choir commands a broad repertoire of songs, ranging from traditional ballads to jazz, rock and contemporary hits, including songs by songs by John Legend, The Temptations, The Beatles, and Maroon 5. The BDs have performed the National Anthem for the L.A. Lakers, Chicago Bulls, and the Boston Red Sox, and sung at the White House, the United Nations, the Academy Award Offices in Hollywood, and the CIA headquarters. Now they’re headed our way as part of their annual Winter Break tour, with a show at SOhO, cramming onto the club’s stage for what promises to be a harmony and humor filled night. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

SAT JAN 19 8PM SUN JAN 20 3PM

UCSB ARTS & LECTURES

AN EVENING WITH MADELEINE ALBRIGHT TUE JAN 22 7:30PM

UCSB ARTS & LECTURES

LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO SUN JAN 27 7PM

Granada Theatre Concert Series & Film Series sponsored by 1214 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Donor parking provided by

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Jackie Jenkins and Jordan Zeitsoff with MFPD chief Chip Hickman

Montecito Fire Chief Chip Hickman with Bucket Brigade founder Abe Powell at the Forever Stamp unveiling in September

nity members following the mudflow event, were on-duty nearly continuously for 90 days during the fire and mudslide. There were also recognitions to Communications Coordinator Jackie Jenkins, who marked 20 years of service with the District in January, and Engineer Jordan Zeitsoff, who marked 10 years of service with the District. Over the summer, firefighters from the District were dispatched to other areas throughout the state to help battle wildfires, and in September, the District hosted a special ceremony at Fire Station 1 when the United States Postal Service unveiled a commemorative Forever Stamp that honors first responders. USPS district manager Alfred Santos told the large crowd that he was moved to host the unveiling in Montecito, following the Thomas Fire and January mudslides, and the exceptional work of first responders in our community. Following the singing of “God Bless America” by mudslide survivor Lauren Cantin, Chief Hickman shared his thoughts about the recent disasters, saying that he has never

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been more proud of the Montecito Fire Department and nearby agencies. “Without the heroic actions of our first responders, the impacts could have been much worse,” he said. Speakers included Bucket Brigade Founder Abe Powell and local celebrity Oprah Winfrey, who both expressed their gratitude to first responders as well as “second responders”: those who helped and continue to help mudslide victims. Special guests included local fire chiefs and members of the Sheriff’s Department, as well as many other emergency responders. The Honoring First Responders stamp features a symbolic scene that shows a firefighter carrying an axe, an Emergency Medical Service worker carrying an emergency bag, and a law enforcement officer shining a flashlight. The stamp was created by artist Brian Stauffer, and is available for purchase at post offices and online. In October, MFPD hosted another very special awards ceremony, this time at Montecito Union School. The ceremony was to honor two MFPD firefighters for their courage and bravery during the 1/9 debris flow. Wildland Specialist Maeve Juarez and Firefighter/Paramedic Andrew Rupp were each given a Medal of Valor award, which is the highest honor awarded to public service personnel in the nation. This was the first and only time in MFPD’s 100-year history that a Medal of Valor has been awarded. “Receiving this award means that the recipient risked their own life to save another, and they did so with willful disregard for their own life and safety,” Chief Hickman said. Maeve, who came to the District from the Forest Service, where she was a Division Chief, stepped up to the challenge of leading the eastern division during the expected rainstorm the night of January 9. Maeve was patrolling her division when rainfall reached .59 inches in five minutes, triggering the debris flow. Maeve had left the San Ysidro Creek Bridge 60 sec-

Medal of Valor award recipient Maeve Juarez with Jon and Terry Keating, whom she saved on January 9, 2018

Medal of Valor award recipient Andy Rupp, with Lauren Cantin and Kim Cantin. Andy saved Lauren on January 9, 2018, when he dug her out of a 10-foot debris pile following the catastrophic mudslide.

onds prior to the bridge being swept away, and in her rear view mirror, she saw a tremendously large fireball. Without hesitation, Maeve quickly turned her vehicle around and headed back toward the flame. “With little concern for her own safety, Maeve engaged the area, encountering 200foot flames coming from the ruptured high-pressure gas line, several homes on fire, and many destroyed from the debris flow,” Hickman said. While calling for resources, and directing her crews into the area, Maeve encountered Jon and Terry Keating. The Keatings had just jumped from the second story of their burning home; Jon sustained life threatening burn injuries and Terry couldn’t walk due

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to multiple fractures in both feet. Additionally, Terry’s clothing was torn off while escaping their burning home. Maeve extricated both Jon and Terry from the hazardous area, gave Terry the clothes off her back, quickly coordinated a night helicopter evacuation, and carried Terry on her back to safety, Hickman said. The same morning, MFPD’s Engine 317 was engaged in search and rescue efforts in the Hot Springs/Olive Mill Road area. The crew of Engine 317 encountered multiple homes swept away and others severely damaged by the debris flow. “Entire trees ripped from their roots, extremely large boulders, and enormous piles of debris were everywhere,” Hickman said. 27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

John Venable retired from the Board of Directors of MFPD in December, after 16 years of service (courtesy photo)

“Power lines were tangled among the debris and high-pressure gas lines were ruptured, ejecting unburned natural gas with a deafening sound.” Andy Rupp and his crew heard 17-year-old Lauren Cantin’s faint cry for help coming from a nearby debris pile. The entire crew started de-layering the pile by hand in an effort to locate Lauren without igniting the natural gas that surrounded them. “Use of power tools was not an option,” Hickman said. Rupp was the first to make contact with Lauren, trapped 10 feet deep in the debris. He promised her he would not leave her until she was safe. Andy began tunneling down towards Lauren among warnings of ensuing rain, further debris flow, and continued threat of the natural gas finding an ignition source. “Andy knew a rapid escape from the tunnel he was in was not possible if something went wrong,” Hickman said. After an hour of digging and cutting by hand, Andy finally made it down to Lauren. He was able to cut the last remaining debris, freeing Lauren’s ankle and extricating her from the pile. Andy never left Lauren’s side until he delivered her to the ambulance. Lauren and her mother, Kim Cantin, would later discover their father and husband, Dave Cantin, perished in the debris flow. Lauren’s brother, Jack Cantin, remains missing. Both the Keating family and the Cantin family were in attendance at the special event. Juarez and Rupp were given a standing ovation for their heroic efforts, while their new medals were placed around their necks. MFPD partner in disaster preparedness is the volunteer network, MERRAG (Montecito Emergency Response and Recovery Action Group), 27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

The Montecito Water District infrastructure was significantly damaged during the debris flow

which kept busy this year holding monthly trainings and supporting the efforts of the Fire District. In December, MERRAG helped to coordinate a largescale effort to go door-to-door to notify those living in an debris flow risk area. Over 150 volunteers turned out to help distribute packets of information to those living in at-risk areas. The MFPD recently announced a vacancy on its Board of Directors left by John Venable, who served the District for 16 years; interested persons should apply no later than January 23, 2019. Montecito Water & Sanitary Districts The mid-term election in November filled the pages of several issues of the Journal in 2018. In August it was announced that five candidates would be running together to fill seats on the Water District and Sanitary District boards. Calling themselves “the Montecito and Summerland Water Security Team,” the slate of candidates included Woody Barrett and Dana Newquist (both running for MSD), and Cori Hayman, Ken Coates, and Brian Goebel (all three running for MWD). The candidates won the two seats at the Sanitary District, held by incumbents Judy Ishkanian and Bob Williams. Three seats were up for grabs at MWD; incumbent Dick Shaikewitz lost his bid for re-election while directors Doug Morgan and Sam Frye stepped down from the Board at the end of their terms. Following the election, Montecito Sanitary District appointed former MA Land Use Chair Tom Bollay to a seat left vacant by Warner Owens. Infrastructure from both Districts was affected by the 1/9 debris flow, and both MSD general manager Diane Gabriel and MWD general manager Nick Turner kept the community

New Montecito Water District directors Ken Coates, Cori Hayman, and Brian Goebel were sworn in on December 7 and join Floyd Wicks, board president and Tobe Plough, board vice president

up-to-date on the rebuilding, as well as the happenings of their respective Districts throughout the year. The estimated damage to MSD’s infrastructure was $1.6 million; the majority of which is being repaid through a grant from FEMA. Both Districts continue to contend with the drought, and have committed to working together in the coming years to come to an agreement on recycled water. In September, the MSD voted on a resolution to clarify that MSD has been and continues to be ready and willing to recycle wastewater discharged to the public sanitary sewer system from inside homes and businesses in Montecito. The MWD Board of Directors will soon decide on the type of water recycling project that is best suited for their service area, and once that decision

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is made by the MWD Board, both Districts are prepared to work together to make it happen. In the meantime, MSD is working on a pilot facility for recycled water to be used for District landscaping. In 2019 we can expect to see progress on the installation of Smart Meters by the MWD, as well as the completion of the infrastructure fixes stemming from the debris flow.

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F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Considerate Done, 225 Loyola Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Lisa McCollum, 225 Loyola Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 6, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 20180003142. Published December 12, 19, 26, 2018, January 2, 9, 2019. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lucinda Nash Jewelry; Winters Wonderland Art Company, 755 Romero Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Lucinda Winters Nash, 755 Romero Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 27, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2018-0003079. Published December 5, 12, 19, 26, 2018. F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ke-Nekt; KeNekt Technologies, 1117 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Evolution Sustainable Industries Incorporated, 27 West Anapamu #454, Santa Barbara, CA 930101. This statement was filed

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NOTICE INVITING BIDS: BID NO. 3948 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION UPGRADES 1.

Notice is hereby given that bids for Bid No. 3948 shall be received to furnish and deliver all services and materials for the Electric Vehicle Charging Station Upgrades per the attached terms, conditions and specifications. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids™ portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a bid. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal. Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids. Bids will be received until 3:00 P.M., Monday, January 14, 2019. At this date and time all bids received will be electronically opened and posted. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted.

Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at three Downtown Parking Lots: Helena Lot (217 Helena Avenue); Granada Garage (1221 Anacapa Street); and Old Town Lot/Lot 11 (523 Anacapa Street) in Santa Barbara and is described as follows: Replace and/or install electric vehicle charging station equipment and increase the electric vehicle changing station ports. 2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: 30 consecutive working days after Notice to Proceed. 2.3 Estimate. The estimate for this Project is: $63,000.00 2.4 Bidders’ Conference. A NON-MANDATORY bidders’ conference will be held on Monday, January 7, 2019 at 9:00 a.m., at the following location: Helena Lot (217 Helena Avenue) for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. Contractor is responsible for any conditions that would have been discovered if they had attended the pre-bid meeting. Meeting minutes will be posted.

License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification: C-10 Contractor 3.2 DIR Registration. City will not enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of ten (10) percent of the maximum bid amount, in the form of a cashier’s or certified check made payable to City, or a bid bond executed by a surety licensed to do business in the State of California on the Bid Bond form included with the Contract Documents. The bid security must guarantee that, within ten days after City’s issuance of the notice of award of the Contract, the bidder will execute the Contract and submit the payment and performance bonds, insurance certificates and endorsements, and all other documentation required by the Contract Documents.

Prevailing Wage Requirements. 5.1 General. This Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes. 5.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half. 5.3 Compliance. The Contract will be subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR, under Labor Code section 1771.4.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide separate performance and payment bonds for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

Substitution of Securities. Substitution of appropriate securities in lieu of retention amounts from progress payments is permitted under Public Contract Code section 22300.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor Tab in the PlanetBids portal.

Instructions to Bidders. All bidders should carefully review the Instructions to Bidders before submitting a Bid Proposal.

By: _______________________________________ William Hornung CPM, General Services Manager

Date: ________________

Publication Dates: First Insertion: 12/19/18 Second Insertion: 12/26/18 Montecito Journal END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

“Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!” – Francis P. Church

27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

ORDINANCE NO. 5862 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AUTHORIZING THE APPROVAL AND EXECUTION BY THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR OF AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO THE INSTALLMENT SALE AGREEMENT FOR THE DESALINATION PLANT REACTIVATION PROJECT DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND PROJECT NO. 4210010-005C, AGREEMENT NO. D15-02006. The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

ORDINANCE NO. 5863

ORDINANCE NO. 5864

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING A MAJOR ENCROACHMENT PERMIT FOR INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OF PRIVATE STORMWATER TREATMENT DEVICES IN PARKWAYS ON ANACAPA STREET AND ORTEGA STREET FRONTING THE PARCEL AT 634 ANACAPA STREET (APN NO. 031- 151-020

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING THE 2018-2020 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AND THE SANTA BARBARA FIRE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

December 11, 2018.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

December 11, 2018.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

December 11, 2018.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

California.

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

California.

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obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

(Seal)

California. (Seal) /s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5863

ORDINANCE NO. 5862

STATE OF CALIFORNIA STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

was introduced on December 4, 2018, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

was introduced on December 4, 2018, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on December 11, 2018, by the following roll call vote:

the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on December 11, 2018, by the following roll call vote:

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

Councilmember Randy Rowse

ABSTENTIONS:

None

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

was introduced on December 4, 2018, and was adopted by

None

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon, Oscar Gutierrez; Mayor Cathy Murillo

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon, Oscar Gutierrez; Mayor Cathy Murillo

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Kristen W. Sneddon, Oscar Gutierrez; Mayor Cathy Murillo

AYES:

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

AYES:

December 11, 2018, by the following roll call vote:

ORDINANCE NO. 5864

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on December 12, 2018.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on December 12, 2018.

on December 12, 2018.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published December 26, 2018 Montecito Journal

27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on December 12, 2018.

December 12, 2018.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published December 26, 2018 Montecito Journal

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/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published December 26, 2018 Montecito Journal

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AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING THE 2018-2020 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AND THE SANTA BARBARA CITY EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION (GENERAL UNIT) AND PROVIDING FOR COMPENSATION CHANGES FOR CONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYEES.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 4.52 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING SECTION 4.52.200 TO AUTHORIZE THE USE OF PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS ON CITY PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS HAVING AN ESTIMATED VALUE OF $5 MILLION AND SUBJECT TO SECTION 519 OF THE CITY CHARTER

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

December 11, 2018.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

California.

was introduced on December 4, 2018, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on December 11, 2018, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon, Oscar Gutierrez; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on December 12, 2018.

December 12, 2018.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published December 26, 2018 Montecito Journal

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To request an interpreter for a specific item during the hearing, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at (805) 564-5305, at least 48 hours in advance of the hearing. Para solicitar un intérprete de Español para esta audiencia, por favor llame al (805) 564-5305, al menos 48 horas antes de la audiencia.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on December 4, 2018, and was adopted by

(SEAL)

the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager December 26, 2018

December 11, 2018, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Oscar Gutierrez; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

Councilmembers Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon, Jason Dominguez

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on December 12, 2018.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

On Thursday, January 10, 2019, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Most Popular, click on Council Agenda Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilVideos.

ORDINANCE NO. 5866

ORDINANCE NO. 5865

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102‑1990.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

(Seal)

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara

ORDINANCE NO. 5866

ORDINANCE NO. 5865

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on December 12, 2018.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published December 26, 2018 Montecito Journal

with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 5, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy. FBN No. 2018-0002934. Published December 5, 12, 19, 26, 2018. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 18CV04540. To all interested parties: Petitioner German Lopez Olvera filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Anthony Herman Lopez Olvera. The Court

“I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.” – Henny Youngman

orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed December 7, 2018. Hearing date: January 30, 2019 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 12/19, 12/26, 1/2, 1/9, 1/16

27 December 2018 – 10 January 2019

MONTECITO PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING DATE OF HEARING: PLACE:

JANUARY 16, 2019 SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ENGINEERING BUILDING 123 EAST ANAPAMU STREET SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101

The Montecito Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Montecito Planning Commission. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak in support or in opposition to the projects. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the Montecito Planning Commission, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101. Letters, with nine copies, and computer materials, e.g. PowerPoint presentations, should be filed with the secretary of the Planning Commission no later than 12:00 P.M. on the Friday before the Montecito Planning Commission hearing. The decision to accept late materials will be at the discretion of the Montecito Planning Commission. Maps and/or staff analysis of the proposals may be reviewed at Planning and Development, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101 a week prior to the public hearing. They may also be found on the Planning and Development Department’s website, located at www.sbcountyplanning.org. If you challenge the project 18CDH-00000-00026 in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Montecito Planning Commission prior to the public hearing. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Hearing Support Staff (805) 568-2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements. 18CDH-00000-00026 Exempt, CEQA Guidelines Sections 15301 & 15303

Oxnard Properties Trust Alterations

1154 Channel Drive Alex Tuttle, Supervising Planner (805) 884-6844 Ciara Ristig, Planner (805) 568-2077

Hearing on the request of Paul Rubison of Appleton Architects, agent for the owner, to consider Case No. 18CDH-00000-00026 [application filed on September 20, 2018] for a Coastal Development Permit in compliance with Section 35-169 of the Article II Coastal Zoning Ordinance, on property zoned 1-E-1 to allow renovations to the existing single family dwelling and associated accessory development; and to determine the project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15301 and 15303 of the State Guidelines for Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act. The application involves Assessor Parcel No. 009-352-019, located at 1154 Channel Drive, in the Montecito area, First Supervisorial District.

Published December 26, 2018 Montecito Journal

MONTECITO COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION RECORDING SECRETARY (568-2000)

NOTICE OF PENDING ACTION BY DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO AMEND A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT DATE OF THIS NOTICE: 12/26/18 CASE NUMBER: 18AMD-00000-00005 PROJECT NAME: Crown Castle Small Cellular Facility PROJECT APPLICANT: Crown Castle PROJECT ADDRESS: Right of way adjacent to 2135 Veloz Drive ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NUMBER: adjacent to 007-110-054 ZONE: 2-E-1 APPLICATION FILED: 7/3/18 DATE OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR ACTION: On or after January 8, 2019 the Director of the Planning and Development Department intends to approve this Amendment to a Conditional Use Permit for the development described below, based upon the ability to make all of the required findings. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Amendment to 13CUP-0000000009 to allow installation of a small cellular facility to an existing 39' utility pole, including two 2' whip antennae (approximately 26’ from grade), a 47" equipment shroud for two radio units (approximately 12 feet from grade), a disconnect switch and a LV convertor. The pole is located in the right-of- way adjacent to 2135 Veloz Drive. PUBLIC COMMENT: A public hearing will not be held on this matter. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to submit written testimony in support or opposition to the proposed project 18AMD-00000-00005. All letters should be addressed to Planning and Development, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, Attention: Ciara Ristig for Jeff Wilson, Deputy Director, Planning and Development. Letters, with two copies, should be received in the office of the Planning and Development Department 24 hours prior to the date of Planning and Development Director Action identified above. For further information please contact Ciara Ristig at 805-568-2077 or cristig@countyofsb.org. MATERIAL REVIEW: Plans and staff analysis of the proposal may be reviewed at the Planning and Development Department, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara a week prior to the date of Planning and Development Director Action identified above. APPEAL PERIOD ENDS: January 18, 2019 This final approval may be appealed to the Montecito Planning Commission by the applicant, owner, or any aggrieved person adversely affected by such decision. The appeal must be filed in writing and submitted with the appropriate appeal fees to the Planning and Development Department either at 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara or 624 West Foster Road, Suite C, Santa Maria, prior to 5:00 p.m. on the APPEAL PERIOD ENDS date identified above.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. The hearing is to consider the appeal filed by Raymond M. Karam and Scott Burns of the Single Family Design Board’s decision to approve unpermitted exterior alterations to the existing 2,507 square foot, one-story, single residential unit with an attached 499 square foot two-car garage owned by West Bluff Capital, Inc., located at 2444 Santa Barbara Street, Assessor Parcel No. 025-042-003, RS-15 (Residential Single Unit) Zone; General Plan Designation: Low Density Residential (Max 3 du/ac). The unpermitted alterations include a glass garage and front entry door, replacing windows, removing a concrete stoop and installing a 272 square foot permeable wood deck, resurfacing the exterior stucco, replacing the pool equipment, replacing the pool patio with new pavers, and installing a new tankless water heater. If you challenge the Council's action on the appeal of the Single Family Design Board's decision in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the public hearing. You are invited to attend this hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office, P.O. Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102‑1990. On Thursday, January 10, 2019, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov; under Most Popular, click on Council Agenda Packet. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired. These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilVideos. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange. (SEAL)

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