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Coast Village Association Touts Benefits of Improvement District Plans to Transform Montecito Street
Feeling besieged on all sides, Coast Village Road merchants mobilize to convince Santa Barbara City Council to green light self-imposed funding program
Bob Ludwick, president of the Coast Village Association, is working with property owners and businesses to create a benefit assessment district to fund long-sought improvements on Montecito’s Coast Village Road. “If we all contribute something, we can do significant things here,” he says. (Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo) By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina
February 28, 2021
| 4:55 p.m.
When the Coast Village Association goes before the Santa Barbara City Council on Tuesday, the Montecito advocacy organization will be looking to pull off something monumental.
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It went to the City Council on Tuesday in hopes of obtaining a specific plan for development of the site.
A majority of the City Council objected and referred the proposal for conceptual review to the Santa Barbara Planning Commission.
The clinic intends to relocate its current center from 4141 State St. to the site, and change the zoning from parks and low-density residential to medical office use and a higher-level of housing to possibily build affordable housing.
The American Indian Health & Services Clinic is in the process of acquiring the former Army Reserve Center at 3237 State St. in Santa Barbara. (Jade Martinez-Pogue / Noozhawk photo)