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The Fund for Santa Barbara Hosting Measure B Debate, Forum
The Fund for Santa Barbara will host a community forum and debate on Measure B from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Louise Lowry Davis Center, 1232 De la Vina St.
The event will be free and open to the public, but seating will be limited.
On the city’s Nov. 3 ballot, voters are being asked to on Measure B — a City Charter amendment that would “reduce maximum building heights in the city to 45 feet generally and 40 feet within the El Pueblo Viejo district except for those areas of the city zoned for single-family and two-family homes, where the maximum building height will remain at 30 feet.” A charter amendment requires a simple majority of voters to pass.
There has been much debate and a great deal of money spent on the measure, yet there has been only one public forum, held Sept. 9 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
The outcome of the vote will have significant effects architecturally, culturally, environmentally, economically and socially, and the forum is being held in the interest of educating the public.
Save El Pueblo Viejo (supporters of Measure B) and the No on Measure B Coalition were invited to participate. The No On Measure B Coalition accepted the invitation, and Save El Pueblo Viejo declined.
Arguing in favor of Measure B (as individuals) will be Lanny Ebenstein and a second individual to be determined. Arguing against Measure B (as representatives of the No On Measure B Coalition) will be Dave Davis and Joe Andrulaitis.
The debate will be moderated by Geoff Green, executive director of The Fund for Santa Barbara. The format of the debate will allow for two speakers from each side of the issue to present their cases and rebut their opponents’ arguments. The public also will have the opportunity to ask questions.
— Geoff Green is executive director of The Fund for Santa Barbara.
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» on 10.08.09 @ 02:53 PM
Vote yes on B
» on 10.08.09 @ 10:11 PM
One wonders why they would decline to discuss this issue. This is a very dissapointing move from them. They have been so steadfast in their “community support” for this it seems like they owe it to their community to participate in the forum. Who is Lanny Ebenstein?
» on 10.09.09 @ 07:30 AM
No doubt the SEPV crowd is running for the hills at this point ever since the Randall Van Wolfswinkel (billionaire Texas developer) connection to them has been exposed. So much so that the blog portion of the “Preserve Our Santa Barbara” PAC’s web site has been taken down since so many people wrote to inquire about his motive for throwing so much money into this campaign.
Shame on him, SEPV, and all the others that will be duped by this whole sham.
Take back and preserve our beautiful city from sprawl development. Vote NO ON MEASURE B!
» on 10.09.09 @ 03:50 PM
No doubt the greedy no on B crowd developer crowd is running for the hills at this point ever since the many thousands of dollar donation from out of town developers has been disclosed. Out of town developers donated far more than Randall donated to SEPV.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Take back and preserve our beautiful city from the greedy developer who want to super size our city and build hundreds more 60 feet monstrosities like those on Chapal, and cause massive population growth and traffic congestion.
Vote YES ON MEASURE B! I and all my friends did!
» on 10.09.09 @ 05:40 PM
why shouldn’t SEPV decline when they went to the Forum recently at the Museum of natural history all the No on B panelists lied and lied and lied!
If the No on B folks won’t debate in an honesty manner without telling lie after lie after why should anyone have the respect for them to even debate them?
Preserve your quality of life, and preserve the wonderful small town feel of Santa Barbara and vote Yes on measure B.
» on 10.09.09 @ 05:45 PM
Join us in our vertical vision for Santa Barbara. Its High time for us to leave the 20th century behind and Grow Up! UP! UP!
Instead of lowering the building height from 60 feet to 40 feet we need to increase it to 100 feet, and allow 10 story high rise buildings,
Our vision of social justice will provide a high density affordable unit, on the 4th story, for anybody who wants to move here.
Put your trust in the Realtors and Developers, give up your car, vote No on B, and we will make all your dreams come true!
» on 10.09.09 @ 07:37 PM
The ONLY argument the pro B people can give is “if you don’t promote our vision of a lovely suburban wealthy retirement village composed of single story rancho buildings, you must be an evil Orange County developer”. Most folks I know who oppose measure B are working class folks. They are confused by the pro B crowd because nothing they say makes an ounce of sense. Limiting a single building dimension will not fight gang violence, eliminate vagrancy, reduce traffic, cure warts or bring you universal healthcare coverage. It will definitely not stop growth. So why does SEPV continue to promote B as a panacea for all the city’s problems? Because you are here and you are not one of them and they really just want you to go away so they can die here in peace. The best way to do that is to make damn sure this town is thoroughly and completely dead, DOA, kaput, got it? That has been their aim in some form or another for sixty years and they put tread on it 40 years ago. Now all of a sudden a building or two gets built under the first ridiculous building height limit and they scream bloody murder. “Dammit, it didn’t kill the town like we thought it would” they screech. So like any good insane person they try the same thing again hoping for a different result.
To those of you bozo’s who think your sooooooooo witty calling opposition evil developers, I guess if you had any conviction in that belief you would tear your developer built house down and move away. No? Oh, you prefer the Michael Moore approach do you? Blame capitalism on everything while profiting handsomely with it? Yep, growth and developers are to blame and yet we still live here in our developer built homes being a very BIG part of that growth. Tsk tsk.
» on 10.12.09 @ 06:26 PM
Join us in our vertical vision for Santa Barbara. Its High time for us to leave the 20th century behind and Grow Up!
Instead of lowering the building height from 60 feet to 40 feet we need to increase it to 100 feet, and allow 10 story high rise buildings,
Our vision of social justice will provide a high density affordable unit, on the 4th story, for anybody who wants to move here.
Put your trust in the Realtors and Developers, give up your car, vote No on B, and we will make all your dreams come true!
» on 10.12.09 @ 11:07 PM
All we need is more lies by those in the development community who oppose measure B.
“Liar, Liar, pants on fire
Nose as long as a telephone wire.”
» on 10.13.09 @ 09:20 AM
Which lie is that? The one about Yes on B being funded by a greedy developer? Oh, I know it’s the one about how controlling building height will magically cure all Santa Barbara’s ills, right? You people make sheeple look more independent.
» on 10.13.09 @ 08:37 PM
The No on B development community has told so many lies in their desperation that the whites of their eyes are turning brown!
And if that greedy developer AN50 were not so desperate, why does he feel the need to hog all the space?
If what he said had any validity, he would not need to keep repeating it every 5 minutes, as if trying to get himself to believe his own lies.
» on 10.14.09 @ 10:57 AM
Hog my arse! I’m just responding to you. Don’t want my response then stop writing all this unmitigated baloney, simple as that. Now then since you can’t seem to delve into an argument without rehashing dopy talking points, why don’t you identify a specific lie I told then I can respond to something substantive.
» on 10.17.09 @ 02:18 PM
VOTE YES ON B
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