Funk Zone Design Charrette Process Begins

Keep it ghetto

"A design charrette process aiming to vision quest what the future of Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone might look like..."?. Huh?

"VisionQuest" is like a military term on how we can best destroy the area with high-density development.

It happens to nice places that treasure funky open space.

hahahahaha-And then stating "while reminiscent of the quirky traditional nature of the original, the new design takes into account the modern needs of a changing demographic"...
Yup, this will be the final end to the incredible shrinking Funk Zone...

The changing democrat is disingenuous doublespeak for gentrification/homogenization.
You can get chains stores in abode and red tile buildings in Camarillo.

*changing demographic. Autocorrected into oblivion again.

What a potential disaster. "In the face of imminent development" = "there's money to be made here, architects, builders; screw the neighborhood: make way for Orange County stucco condos and LA." All that's necessary is for a bunch of them to say, Development is imminent! ...and then they can helpfully chime in, Let us plan it!

They're showing what they can do along Cota and - the NIMBY-loud-noise-complaining owner building next to La Casa de la Raza, building residential in the M-1 zone; just think what that bunch can do in the large funk zone.

Every time I hear the words "stakeholder" "vision quest" "facilitated" and "Charrette" I want to throw up, its terms used by the bureaucracy to justify endless meetings that are held merely to come to a predetermined ending. The only thing that would have made this notice more inviting was if they said a modified Robert's Rules of Order will be available in a handout form and we will integrate lessons learned from Occupys General Assembly. I blame ULI and Hurricane Katrina for bringing Charrette back as a popular term when they started to throw it around after the storm during the Rebuild New Orleans town halls.