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Dear Santa Barbara County Planning Commissioners, Citizens Planning Association asks that you deny Sable’s application to transfer permits for the Santa Ynez Unit, POPCO Gas Plant, and Las Flores Pipelines. Our County has already suffered from the devastating oil spill from those corroded pipelines and surely there will be another catastrophic event if you allow […]

To: SB City Decision-Makers RE: Reject these Builders Remedy Projects Dear Decision Makers/Staff: Citizens Planning Association has been following development in the City of Santa Barbara for more than six decades. We have always advocated for transparency, public input, and adherence to existing planning policies. CPA is a member of Allied Neighborhoods Association and agree

To SB County Planning Commission − Citizens Planning Association submitted a comment letter for the draft ND and we read staff’s responses. We are here today to voice full support of the SBCAN appeal of the Sentinel Peak Oil Trucking proposal and to ask the Planning Commission to deny this over-the-counter director’s approval, an approval

Dear HLC Commissioners: Citizens Planning Association has a long history – since 1960 – admiring and watchful of our city’s character, the sometimes hard to define essence of what makes Santa Barbara, “SANTA BARBARA!” Putting aside the obvious, the mountains-to-sea, it is Santa Barbara’s human-scaled architecture, especially those rare gems that make you stop and

Dear Mayor Rowse and City Council members: Citizens Planning Association* has been a part of Santa Barbara’s planning processes since 1960. We have been credited – or criticized for standing up for what we consider good planning. What is good planning, we’ve often been asked? It’s the forethought that takes into consideration our city’s history,

To: Jacquelynn Ybarra, Project Planner Re: Draft Negative Declaration for proposed Sentinel Peak Resource Truck Rack (and Trucking Project) 22LUP-00000-00199 100,000 Oil Tanker Trips over a 50 Year period Proposed Citizens Planning Association has followed this oil development since 1980, when the Lompoc Separation Plant was first proposed. We are very concerned that this current

RE: Agenda Item 13, Recommendation “A”: TO: Mayor Randy Rowse and Council members: E. Friedman, A. Gutierrez, O. Gutierrez, M. Harmon, M. Jordan, K. Sneddon; Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov Dear Mayor Rowse and Council members: Citizens Planning Association has been part of SB City planning process for more than 60 years. Although focused on the present and future,

To: Santa Barbara City Planning Commissioners Re: 101 Garden Street 250 Room Hotel Citizens Planning Association is quite familiar with this site. When CPA was founded in 1960, this site was an industrial site which was quietly creating significant contamination. We feel this current project should not be given an exemption under CEQA. In the

To: Santa Barbara County Planning Commission Re: Gaviota Coast Conservancy (GCC) Appeal of Project F1-F2. Citizens Planning Association followed closely the entire Gaviota Coastal Plan (GCP) process and felt after several years of discussion by county stakeholders that our precious Gaviota Coast would be safe from impactful development. We are very concerned to discover the

Since its founding in 1960, CPA has advocated for the best standards of design and we work to protect the heritage of SB County. Also in 1960, the El Pueblo Viejo was established. The Historic Landmarks Commission was also formed in 1960 to ensure the EPV would be protected through ‘careful City planning and development.”