The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. Pictured: Councilmemer Frank Hotchkiss (Sept. 25, 2012)

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The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. Pictured: Councilmember Randy Rowse (Sept. 25, 2012)

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The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. Pictured: Councilmember Dale Francisco (Sept. 25, 2012)

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The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. Pictured: Councilmember Cathy Murillo (Sept. 25, 2012)

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The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. Pictured: Mayor Helene Schneider and councilmemer Frank Hotchkiss (Sept. 25, 2012)

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ABR boardmember Chris Gilliland apologizes to City Council abstaining from voting, due to personal politics, on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project . (Sept. 25, 2012)

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The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. Pictured center: ABR Boardmember Gary Mosel (Sept. 25, 2012)

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The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. Pictured: Councilmember Frank Hotchkiss (Sept. 25, 2012)

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Jim Worthen faces ABR member Gary Mosel while telling the Santa Barbara City Council to terminate ABR members for their abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. (Sept. 25, 2012)

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The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. Pictured: Daraka Larimore-Hall (Sept. 25, 2012)

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The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. (Sept. 25, 2012)

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The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. (Sept. 25, 2012)

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The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. Pictured: Councilmember Cathy Murillo (Sept. 25, 2012)

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The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. Pictured: Councilmember Bendy White (Sept. 25, 2012)

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The Santa Barbara City Council meets to discuss ABR members' controversial abstention from voting on changes to a Chick-fil-A landscaping project. Pictured: City Attorney Steve Wiley (Sept. 25, 2012)

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Councilmember Randy Rowse (right) and ABR Boardmember Gary Mosel talk following the Santa Barbara City Council meeting (Sept. 25, 2012)

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