Supervisors Meet & Vote Tuesday, Feb. 21st. 9:00 AM

See below for:

Direct e-mail links to Supervisors and News outlets.

Speaking and letter writing suggestions. 

- Letters need to be received by Friday, Feb. 17th. -

The Board of Supervisors will meet to discuss and vote on our Community Plan. The meeting will most likely last all day, but the morning is the critical time to be there for public comments and a strong showing of support from the community.  What gets decided will be in effect for the next 20 years! Please attend.

Location:

Board of Supervisors Hearing Room

105 E. Anapamu St., 4th Floor

Public parking in lot behind Granada Theater.

Public comments are IMPORTANT.  Each person will have just 2-3 minutes to speak. You don't need to be a great speaker and it's OK to repeat what's been said. The Supervisors DO consider what you have to say. We need to strongly voice our community values of limited, responsible development, preserving agricultural land and retaining the character of our community.

If you would like to make a comment you will need to fill out a speaker form when you arrive and give it to the person collecting them.

1.  Do not add any additional sites for more housing.

29 acres and 650 new units in the central part of our community is enough.

2.  Do not develop San Marcos Growers (next to Vons) under any circumstances! This property is in the heart of our community. Developing it would drastically and negatively impact the community. Besides being home to a first rate wholesale nursery business, there is an active Ag operation that supplies food to the farm stand on Hollister Ave. and to Lane Farms on Walnut Ave. These stands serve up to 200 people per day in their peak season. 

BUT developers and housing advocates are trying to get the Supervisors to include it in the Plan. Tell them NO!

3.  Please re-insert the agricultural land protection language back into the Plan

in Section LUA-1.6: Urban Agricultural Land Use Conversion. The County recently removed it. We want it added back in because it maintains important protective criteria to keep Ag land from easily being converted to residential or commercial use.

4.  Let Supervisor Wolf know that you would like her to support the majority voice of the community regarding development and preservation of valuable agricultural land and open space. 

This is already far more growth than we think our area can reasonably absorb/sustain, and yet there are developers and special interest groups

who want to put even more housing into our Community Plan. Adding more housing means cementing over rich agricultural land and destroying pleasurable open space. We must say NO to any more high density rezoning than what is currently being proposed!

650 units is a significant addition to our community which already has the largest amount of affordable housing, per capita, in the County.

For more information click here to view January e-newsletter. 

Click link below to view the County Goleta Community Plan Update:

http://longrange.sbcountyplanning.org/planareas/goleta/gcp.php 

SUPERVISOR CONTACTS 

Thank you again to all who have supported us over the past 6 months.  I hope many of you can show up at the meeting, write a letter, or both.

Barb Kloos

egvalley@gmail.com