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Posted on October 27 at 10:22 a.m.
If people are this passionate about Old Town then why don't they DO something about it instead of whining that the City Council isn't doing enough? The reason Old Town looks the way it does is because the people who live, work and own property there allow it to happen. Look at all the illegal signs the business owners have put up that contributes to the blight. If there is trash then organize clean-ups. Local governments don't have the funds to do everything for you. Take personal responsibility!
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Posted on August 12 at 4:04 p.m.
To add to the urban legend, Jim Morrison named the band "The Doors" after the book by Aldous Huxley "Doors of Perception" which Huxley supposedly wrote while while living in IV after experimenting with mescaline.
Further!
Posted on July 1 at 5:58 p.m.
JohnLocke is perhaps expousing his namesakes arguement that ownership of property is created by the application of labor and that property precedes government and government cannot dispose of the estates of the subjects arbitrarily.
Perhaps, but government also has a reponsibility to protect its citizens from the actions of others, including Relevé Unlimited who doesn't seem to care about the effect of thousands of people descending upon this area.
And, this isn't private party; it's pure, unadulerated huxterism.
Posted on June 25 at 4:44 p.m.
I agree, boo hoo. If this was such a popular course then why was it losing money? Because it was marginal business proposition to begin with. Back when the golf course was originally approved we predicted this was just the camel's nose in the tent; that sooner or later the developers would come crying that in order to make any money they would have to develop housing on the site. Also, blaming the City's decision not to allow a "study" to go forward for it's demise is comical. Even if the City had said, sure, throw more money down this rathole, it would have been years before any permits were able to be approved. Not to mention the delay due to lawsuits that were sure to be filed by concerned Goleteans.
Posted on February 25 at 2:39 p.m.
Many good questions raised by this article, but, I'm not sure if there is really a "slew of brilliant law school-bound kids" attending UCSB. Serious pre-law majors are going to Stanford or Berkeley, or University of the Pacific, not UC Surf Board which is still ruled by the "beached-out, bleached-out banal blonds." (Give yourself 10 IV history points if you remember where this phrase came from.)
To get some understanding as to why such an ordinance is required for Isla Vista, just hang out at Alberson's in the Plaza Shopping Center on a Friday afternoon and watch the students load up shopping carts with cheap vodka and cheap beer. It probably a good bet that wherever this amount of alcohol ends up at will be considered a "loud and unruly gathering" by anyone but the actual partygoers who will be too drunk to realize how loud and unruly they are.
Posted on February 12 at 11:13 a.m.
Sounds like "livingsb" hasn't travelled very far south recently; check out what has happened to Camarillo, which is still north of the Conejo grade.
Seriously, if the present situation stands, then the County and Osgood, or whomever owns the lots south of the highway in the future, will be fighting it out for years to come regarding development of those separate, legal lots.
However, not all are "legally buildable" as the article above asserts. Absent some sort of community sewer system, some lots are just to small to support a septic system. Some fall off into ravines. But, through enough lot mergers and lot line adjustments, there will be plenty of individual, potentially buildable lots to fight over.
Posted on February 5 at 12:35 p.m.
"Hired gun" Steve Amerikaner knows what he is talking about; the City may be left with only a pot to piss in. Taking over the pipes and pumps means taking over the maintenance and liability, and if the City is not successful in contracting with either sanitary district, they will have to buy their own equipment and hire additional staff.
If the City really wants to provide sewer service to its citizens, then why are they not also filing an application to detach from the Goleta Sanitary District?
On Goleta Wants Sanitary District’s Load; Agency Likely to Sue
Posted on December 8 at 10:16 a.m.
If the surfers have been using this trail for decades, then why doesn't Surfriders file a lawsuit on their behalf to legally establish a prescriptive easement?
However, even if that were to happen, the landowner is still liable for any injuries that occur on his or her property.
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Posted on October 23 at 2:50 p.m.
It is not the "antiquated map of hundreds of legal lots on the property that loomed large over the supervisors’ boardroom Tuesday afternoon," it was the County's own Official Map that the County Board of Supervisors approved and recorded years ago that clearly established the legality of the some 200 odd lots shown on the Official Map. Yes, the Official Map was based on deed transfers that occured over time that referenced the antiquated map, but the antiquated map in and of itself did not subdivide the land.
Granted, not every lot shown on the Official Map could be a building site, due to size, slope, habitat and other contstraints, however, through lot mergers and lot line adjustments a large number of lots could be created that could be viable for development. And yes, each one of these lots south of the highway would be subject to review by the Coastal Commission on appeal, but frankly I doubt that the coummunity has enough energy and money to do that. And there would be no way to exact the concessions that the County, and the coummunity, received from the Osgood plan, e.g, the 2600 acres of protected open space mentioned in the article above.
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Posted on November 5 at 1:50 p.m.
For BetsyR's benefit, and any others who are trying to follow this, the printed material is available on the City of Goleta's website; see:
http://goleta.granicus.com/MetaViewer.ph...
you'll probably have to cut and paste this into your browser to open it.
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