• City of Santa Barbara Building and Fire Inspectors conducted a review of 20 of landlord Dario Pini’s properties in July. Last week, City Attorney Steve Wiley served Pini with a lawsuit. Noozhawk staff photographed several of those locations after inspectors investigated and have assembled them into a slideshow. Here is Pini’s property at 630 W. Cota St. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk)
  • At 630 W. Cota St. inspectors documented documented trash and graffiti all around the property. At 626 West Cota St., inspectors documented ‘a continuous presence and odor of human feces and urine’ at the back of the complex, a proliferation of trash, debris and graffiti all around. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk)
  • At 26 Chapala St., 11 unit building, inspectors found incomplete electrical work, exposed wiring, a setback accumulation of trash, furniture, and construction materials, and under stair storage areas filled with flammable containers and fences dilapidated. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk)
  • At 204 Cottage Grove Ave, a four bedroom single family dwelling, beds were placed in the living room and are being rented out to tenants, wires were hanging from center of room where tenants sleep, trash was being stored in rear yard and setbacks and the front fence was ‘in extreme disrepair presenting a hazard,’ the complaint said. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk)
  • At 218, 220, 222 Cottage Grove Ave., tenants were seen living in a storage area, trash was strewn throughout, and there were no working smoke detectors. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk)
  • At 313 and 315 West Arrellaga St., a 17 unit apartment complex, inspectors said many of the balconies in the apartment unit are being used as residences and rented out to tenants and interior partition walls have been constructed creating unpermitted rooms for sleeping. Vans located in the parking lot are being used for prostitution, the complaint states. Water leaks were seen around the foundation of the building, along with ‘a major presence of trash construction materials, graffiti throughout the complex.’ (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk)
  • At 522, 526, 530 E. Canon Perdido St., the property was littered with debris and several dilapidated sheds that presented a hazard. (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk)
  • At 730 Bath St., a two-story family dwelling, is overcrowded because many rooms, living dining room, etc., have been illegally converted and maintained as bedrooms by the tenants, inspectors said. Setbacks, front and side yards were also full of recycling, furniture and trash. (Tom Bolton / Noozhawk)
  • At 1106 del Mar Ave., a single family dwelling, the lot was overflowing with large amounts of trash, and a dilapidated fence, which constituted a ‘safety hazard.’ (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk)
  • At 1435 Bath St., a four unit apartment building, trash, including flammable paints and urethanes, were scattered around the apartment building and a laundry facility is illegally located in building’s entryway, inspectors said. (Tom Bolton / Noozhawk)
  • At 1510 Garden St., a 15 unit apartment building, inspectors found excessive trash, graffiti, and broken lights throughout the complex, the second floor deck of the apartment had deteriorated, posing ‘a significant danger.’ Many of the units have broken heaters, and there is an ‘infestation of cockroaches throughout the building.’ (Lara Cooper / Noozhawk)