Westmont Expansion Approved

Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Thomas Anderle maintained his tentative decision to allow Westmont College to proceed with its campus expansion plans. The citizens’ group opposed to the plan-represented by attorney Barry Cappello-said the project is inconsistent with the “residential low intensity, semi-rural character” of Montecito, but the judge-siding with the Board of Supervisors-wrote that the inconsistency was not, to him, “readily apparent.”