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Posted on July 6 at 10:41 p.m.
Thanks Randy Campbell and all at the Independent, particularly Ray Ford and Nick Welsh.
Perhaps you can mention how much (if any) of the Jesusita/Inspiration Point/Seven Falls trail will be closed by the Los Padres shutdown from Gibraltar west....
Posted on July 6 at 10:34 p.m.
Thanks for some more accurate information on the revenue neutrality agreement. Underpinning the whole RNA is the fact that neighborhoods that Goleta chose not to incorporate (Isla Vista, for example) still suffer the impacts of the revenue generators (Costco and Camino Real Marketplace, for example). It is fitting and proper that the RNA continue as long as those neighborhoods are impacted by the revenue generators, which is either in perpetuity or until such time as Goleta incorporates those neighborhoods.
Posted on July 5 at 3:12 p.m.
Finally see Brooks Firestone! I hope he was involved with plying the State to get involved and contribute resources. He sure hasn't been apparent at the daily press briefing, with luck because he was working so hard on getting Sacramento's attention.
Locals really hate the State when the State plunks down a housing mandate, or wants a UCSB enrollment increase.
But right now locals love the State because it is saving their houses. hmm....
All those firefighters from Long Beach and Pacoima... I can envision Jack Hawxhurst telling them, `Don't think of living here. Go home now!' after the firefighters' heroics.
Posted on July 4 at 8:15 a.m.
That 1955 fire scared the bejeebers out of us. All that building north of Cat Oaks is really dangerous! We all knew, but we knew the folks who made money subdividing their ranches and were happy they retired on the proceeds too.
Posted on June 26 at 1:04 a.m.
The RNA dates from 2001, not 2002.
Braitman knows darned well that Isla Vista was not included in the City of Goleta, defying all common sense and logic. The cost for leaving IV out was the RNA payments in perpetuity.
That is actually quite fair, and Braitman knows it in 2008 and knew it in 2001. That he now says otherwise shows he should not be part of LAFCO... LAFCO staff should be committed to the orderly formation of civic governance, not the trashing of areas like Isla Vista.
Local measures for transportation funds are actually better than the quasi-regional measures like A and D. The reason is that Measures A and D pay off the cities at expense of the unincorporated County areas, and pay off the North County at expense of the South County.
Posted on June 18 at 8:05 p.m.
ITK, horseapples. I have one screen-name, and never post under another. Your paranoia has given me a good laugh, however.
On Caltrans Gives Public Glimpse of Cold Spring Suicide Barrier
Posted on June 17 at 1:17 p.m.
Rincon is not a narrow bridge... the `shoulder' for bicyclists on Cold Spring is really narrow... look at the photos above.
Rincon is not two-lane two-way traffic with no center divider, either.
The Cold Spring Bridge might well be the most dangerous spot for cars on 154, although maybe it is so dangerous that drivers instinctively know not to do certain risky things like pass.
And so maybe other spots have more accidents because of the illusion of relative safety.
On Caltrans Gives Public Glimpse of Cold Spring Suicide Barrier
Posted on June 17 at 1:15 p.m.
Rincon is not a narrow bridge... the `shoulder' for bicyclists on Cold Spring is really narrow... look at the photos above.
Rincon is not two-lane two-way traffic either.
On Caltrans Gives Public Glimpse of Cold Spring Suicide Barrier
Posted on June 14 at 2:30 p.m.
Drove the Cold Spring Bridge today... what an ugly piece of mid-20th century Caltrans architecture. The barrier will make it look a whole lot better.
It is only a matter of time until a rubbernecking driver at 65 mph collides with some bicyclists. The barrier will make drivers focus more on the road and make vehicle collisions less frequent.
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Posted on July 7 at 8:19 a.m.
Several hundred IV students no longer are capable of riding their bikes to Dos Pueblos High because of all the Costco/CRM traffic.
It is the Isla Vista Sanitary District, founded in 1954, located on the UCSB campus that processes all the sewage from Costco/CRM. Whoops the name got changed in 1990 because the Goletans were embarassed over their dependence on IV. A river of sludge from the late subdivisions (IV was subdivided in 1925) in West Goleta is a big impact.
Let's return Ellwood and El Encanto Heights (not to mention Costco) to their beautiful bucolic condition of 1925. IV should have taxed each West Goleta homeowner $200,000 a year for the sewage.
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