Housing and Development Newsletter
There are various online and paper tools that allow residents to begin drawing maps of neighborhoods, communities of interest, or full district maps. Once the official census data is released, residents can amend their maps, Phillips said.
Residents can use Goleta’s StoryMap for mapped data potentially relevant to identifying communities of interest, such as school attendance boundaries, census boundaries, Board of Supervisors districts, airport noise contours, and city zoning.
The StoryMap also allows residents to look at voting age populations by race and ethnicity, education level, and income.
Latino residents are the biggest protected class ethnicity within the city, Phillips said, and current data shows that neighborhoods with the most voting-eligible Latino residents are in Old Town Goleta and parts of the northwest and southwest residential areas.
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City Council votes unanimously to continue program through December while exploring whether to make it permanent
Since March 2020, the City of Carpinteria has issued 28 permits for businesses and other organizations to expand their operations outside or into public street rights-of-way. (Jade Martinez-Pogue / Noozhawk photo) By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue
May 16, 2021
| 9:30 p.m.
With Santa Barbara County gaining increasing control over the COVID-19 pandemic, the Carpinteria City Council voted last week to extend an emergency ordinance allowing local businesses to expand operations into street rights-of-way.
“Many local businesses were forced to close for a number of months over the past year and, when open, business activities have been severely restricted,” City Manager Dave Durflinger wrote in a staff report to the council.
Government Offices Shut Down by COVID-19 Pandemic Are Slowly Reopening
Monday was the first day the public was allowed back into the Santa Barbara Hall of Records; some offices are waiting for looser restrictions
The Santa Barbara County Clerk-Recorder’s office reopened the Santa Barbara Hall of Records office for in-person services on Monday. The Santa Maria branch is slated to re-open on May 10. (Brooke Holland / Noozhawk photo) By Brooke Holland, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @BT Holland | UPDATED 9:18 a.m.
May 3, 2021
| 9:43 p.m.
Some government offices have reopened to in-person services in Santa Barbara County, while others plan to welcome back the public when the region advances to the next less-restrictive tier of the state s color-coded reopening system.