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Experts agree there is a connection between the vibrancy of a downtown with the number of businesses with character — i.e., not a chain — and study after study recommends housing as a means to revitalize State Street.
A market featuring local foods is what Santa Barbara needs.
Choose pedestrians over cars, with space for public transit and cyclists via a flexible, inviting, human-scale design.
Our vision is to create a dynamic pedestrian downtown, while allowing some blocks to reopen to vehicular traffic.
Think about it — if we can’t have parades on State Street because of security issues caused by large gatherings then we should be canceling all events that cluster large numbers of people exposing them to “mass shootings.”
Successful malls have been multimodal, rather than pedestrian only, with ample housing in the vicinity.
The property owners and those businesses that remain need an opportunity to survive and not languish while we equivocate.
An approved Requirements Document should precede any design work, because this document will create a framework that usefully limits which design choices may be made.
Wiping out the vitality that has spontaneously erupted on State Street during the past three years — a real silver lining of the pandemic — would be foolish.
Thousands expressed their hopes to revitalize downtown to the State Street Advisory Committee.
