December 7th Planning Commission Meeting City of Solvang
Citing negative publicity for the city and potential loss of state and federal aid as a result of last weekâs emergency actions by the Solvang City Council, the newly seated mayor and both newly seated council members Monday quickly put the kibosh on any hint of revolt against state mandates relating to COVID-19.
âI know, myself, Iâm not in favor of the city condoning any type of activity disregarding public health officials,â said Mayor Charlie Uhrig.
At an emergency meeting last week, the council voted unanimously to write a letter to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors to seek the creation of a Central Coast region consisting only of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties. The effort was intended to separate the coastal region from the Southern California region identified, and shut down, by the state of California as intensive care units in southern counties became
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Regional leaders hope the state will lump Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties into one region to avoid severe restrictions now in place, such as halting outside dining and closing salons. Those restrictions returned last week as the broader Southern California region experiences a larger outbreak affecting hospitals. It’s critically important, right now especially, that everyone cooperate together to reduce the spread of the virus and keep our cases and hospitalizations as low as possible,” Hart said. “All of the businesses in our county depend on everyone working together, and I’m hopeful that the city of Solvang will be a productive, cooperative partner in our joint effort to work with the governor and create a new path for us to exit sooner than would be the base.”
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A small tourist town is refusing to comply with California s shutdown. It may not be the only one.
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Solvang Julefest on December 6, 2020Julie Tremaine
On Sunday at midnight, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order went into effect for the greater Southern California region. The order shuttered all in-person dining, closed hotels to everyone but essential workers, and further reduced capacity in retail establishments. Breweries and wineries were closed to all but retail sales.
But the small tourist town of Solvang is refusing to comply even as the pandemic surges.
On Monday, Solvang Mayor Ryan Toussaint filed an emergency motion in a Solvang City Council meeting that the town would not comply with the order. It passed 5-0.
Central Coast to really come into its own. While Northern Californians like
Gov. Gavin Newsom obviously think
Santa Barbara and SLO counties are so SoCal, rebellion is brewing.
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All thanks to the most recent iteration of California’s last-minute COVID-19 guidelines. While the state was split into counties for most of the pandemic’s duration, Newsom announced an emergency upgrade at the beginning of December. Five regions! So all of that work that went into keeping the counties separate, doing their own data tracking, COVID-19 testing, public health outreach, and hospital bed coordination it’s moot.
Why is the