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Health order enforcement? Supervisors to discuss fines for violators By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR
“I don’t want it to go back to the way it was.”
“There’s no parking on State Street so you’re not really losing parking.”
“(The promenade) serves the community a whole lot better.”
“I think it’s a win for the city, overall.”
Kelsey Bodine,
Sarah Jonas,
Shain Cox,
Aron Ashland,
Santa Barbara resident
Local resident
Santa Barbara resident
owner of The Cruisery
Overwhelming support for State Street promenade American Institute of Architects charrette heavily favors making changes permanent
Opting not to wear a mask or gathering in large groups may soon make your pockets a bit lighter. The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will discuss an urgency ordinance for additional remedies for violators of the county health officer orders pertaining to the coronavirus. The board will receive its standard COVID-19 update from the county Public Health Department, and will also discuss whether to provide peace officers and other public officers with a “tool” to enforce health orders aimed at slowing the spread of the novel virus. The proposed urgency ordinance provides “additional enforcement mechanisms to deter violations of County Health Orders, through either infraction citations or administrative fines,” according to the staff report. The intent of the ordinance is to deal with “those particularly egregious situations and persuasion is deemed ineffective in slowing the virus,” the report continued. If approved, county health officer orders would be adopted as county law and any violation could result in either an infraction citation or administrative fine. Please see ENFORCE on A2
The proposed urgency ordinance provides “additional enforcement mechanisms to deter violations of County Health Orders, through either infraction citations or administrative fines.”
SB Unified school board voting on safe gun storage resolution By JOSH GREGA NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
The Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education will vote at its Tuesday meeting on a resolution requiring the district send a bilingual letter to all district parents reminding them of their legal responsibility to properly store firearms. The resolution and sample letter attached to it are authored by the Santa Barbara Chapter of Moms Demand Action, which has been trying to get a safe storage resolution passed for the past two years, according to the chapter’s group co-lead Kendall Pata. The resolution is based on a similar one that was passed last year by the Los Angeles Unified School District. In an interview with the News-Press, Ms. Pata remarked that now is an appropriate time for the Please see resolution on A2 KENNETH SONG / NEWS-PRESS
More than 90% of respondents to the 2020 design charrette said they favored closing part of State Street to all vehicular traffic permanently in some form.
By JOSH GREGA NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
The American Institute of Architects Santa Barbara chapter has concluded its 2020 Design Charrette seeking community input on a possible revamp of State Street, and the results show an overwhelming majority of responders want the
promenade setup to stay permanent. More than 90% of the respondents said they favored closing part of State Street to all vehicular traffic permanently in some form or fashion. A figure of 46.53% favored keeping State Street closed to vehicles in its current state, extending from Haley Street to Sola Street. The second most popular answer
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was keeping State Street closed to vehicle traffic and expanding the number of closed blocks, with 38.94% favoring this arrangement. A significantly smaller amount, 7.89%, favored reducing the number of State Street blocks closed to vehicles. Taken together, these add up to 93.36% of respondents in favor of closing certain sections of State
Street. Only 4.48% favored returning all of State Street back to vehicular traffic, and 2.17% of respondents said they weren’t sure which they prefer. Taken between July 15 and August 9, the charrette received 4,752 responses in English and 12 in Spanish, with 98 percent of the respondents living in the Santa Please see PROMENADE on A10
The resolution and sample letter attached to it are authored by the Santa Barbara Chapter of Moms Demand Action, which has been trying to get a safe storage resolution passed for the past two years.
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