CPA Letters
20 October, 2024
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...
14 August, 2024
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...
13 August, 2024
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,...
03 June, 2024
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...
25 March, 2024
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...
04 March, 2024
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...
29 February, 2024
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...
28 February, 2024
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...
03 February, 2024
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...
09 January, 2024
To: Chair Lavagnino and Supervisors.
Citizens Planning Association is here today to say ‘Yes”. As president of CPA, I am here today to speak in support of some of the proposals for criteria to be considered...
30 November, 2023
Dear Supervisors:
Citizens Planning Association has been following the Housing Element process since the very beginning. We hope you have read the many CPA letters regarding the RHNA numbers allotment...
26 November, 2023
To the Architectural Board of Review:
Citizens Planning Association has worked within Santa Barbara City and County for good planning since 1960. The off-ramp area from the 101 to Milpas is truly the “entrada”...
13 October, 2023
Citizens Planning Association has participated in the public process regarding planning and housing for more than 63 years. We recently hosted City Planner Allison deBusk at our monthly Speakers Series....
19 August, 2023
Dear Supervisors:
Over the past decades, Citizens Planning Association has offered input regarding the Plains pipelines, especially after the ruptured pipeline along our precious Gaviota Coast in 2015....
16 July, 2023
CITIZENS PLANNING ASSOCIATION REPLIES TO BRIAN CEARNAL:
“How tall is too tall?” There’s a straight-forward answer to that: It’s anything beyond what the voting residents of a city have decided via their...
04 April, 2023
Dear (Santa Barbara County Board of) Supervisors:
Citizens Planning Association, a volunteer organization created 63 years ago, promotes sound planning and sustainable communities throughout Santa Barbara...