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What Do You Need to Earn to Live in S.B.?

To afford a one-bedroom market rate rental unit, the average Santa Barbaran has to earn $22.88 an hour, $27.42 for a two-bedroom, and $36 for a three-bedroom, according to a study released by the National Low Income Housing Council.

Lily Rossi Dies

Lily Rossi, the former city clerk who for 23 years represented the “face” of City Hall for thousands of residents, died last week.

City Eyes Water Treatment Plant Land

The City Council took baby steps to buy the land beneath its water quality treatment plant by the Lauro Reservoir from the federal government as part of a bureaucratic dance that would enable City Hall to, once again, tap the hydroelectric potential of water rushing into the facility from Gibraltar Reservoir via the Mission Tunnel.

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