I hope that you are allowing opposing view points on Measure V. Measure V is flawed from the point of view of Mesa residents and Santa Barbara residents in general because it funds parking lots, expansion, and improvements at SBCC without providing housing for SBCC students. Currently the 20,000 SBCC students are contributing to Santa Barbara's lack of affordable housing for its workers. Because SBCC and the city provide no dormitories, more parking lots are wanted to put more students in cars on our roads, producing more pollution and congestion. Expansion and improvement of SBCC facilities will attract yet more students from outside our area and further impact our housing market, congestion, and air quality. The idea that SBCC cannot provide housing because the state does not provide for it does not mean that the city, county and college cannot form an alliance to do so. The city and college have so far been timid and easily cowed by opposition to using the city's property at the carriage museum for high density dormitories. People can be housed much more densely and inexpensively in dormitories because they can share bathrooms and rooms, and use community kitchen/dining. When the city or county build high density housing they have to provide a unit with bathroom and kitchen for every individual. Measure V without dormitories is part of the problem, not part of the solution!

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