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Ribbon cutting marks Healthy Life opening
Joined by community members and Carpinteria Valley Chamber of Commerce representatives, Healthy Life owner Mike adams slices through the ribbon to highlight the recent opening of the newest business in Casitas Plaza. The smoothie bar and wellness center offers a line of nutritional products and free wellness profiles. Pictured left of adams is randy Boring, adams’ business mentor.
BBQ Company celebrates five years in biz
On Valentine’s Day 2009, Gary and Jackie nielsen opened The Barbecue Company on Santa Claus Lane. This week, having weathered the toughest years of the recession, the couple is celebrating its five-year anniversary in business. “With the support of the community and all of our friends and neighbors, we have had five wonderful years and look forward to many more,” said Gary. The Barbecue Company launched a popular delivery service last year and plans to expand it, as well as its menu selection and catering capabilities. The success of the business, Gary said, is in part due to hard work of floor manager Derek Grant, who has worked for the restaurant for several years. “Creating great barbecue has been a passion in Gary’s family for years, and we are extremely proud to serve it up to the Carpinteria/Santa Barbara area for years to come,” said Jackie.
PLANNING Continued from page 1
IBC cruises through planning process but can’t shake parking fee Planners unanimously sang praises for Island Brewing Company when approving the 11-year-old brewery’s plan to double in size. IBC submitted the plan last month to grow its tasting room into the 3,500-square-foot adjacent space at its current 5049 6th Street location, and to add a walk-in refrigerator, office and conference room in the new square footage. The plan does not include any additional brew tanks but increasing storage space would allow the current equipment to be operated at a higher capacity. Planning commissioners hardly blinked at the structural side of the proposal, but also written into the alteration of IBC’s conditional use permit were the more greatly scrutinized requests to allow live entertainment and extend closing time from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Owner Paul Wright explained that an 11 p.m. closing time would mean the brewery would stop pouring at 10 p.m. Closing time is considered by the Department of alcohol and Tobacco as the time when everyone is out the door, Wright explained. “They want you to wipe the tables clean,” he said. Live entertainment would also pull its plugs at last call, 10 p.m., not closing time, and although IBC wants flexibility to stay open late all week, it would operate according to demand and be less likely to remain open on weeknights and in the winter. Music would be compatible to
patrons having conversations and not characterized as “heavy thumping,” Wright anticipated. Planners found no history of noise complaints at IBC, and the sheriff ’s department did not object to the plans. The nearest campsite at Carpinteria State Beach is 250 feet away, a distance considered adequate to attenuate the noise, according to planners. On the issue of parking, planners found that the extension would up parking requirements from just over eight spaces to just over 18, based on one space per 500 square feet. The entire warehouse building within which IBC is located only has 11 on-site spots. The dearth of private parking in the area had been a sticking point during prior conditional use permit hearings with IBC, but planners had been lenient, “using a handful of tools,” to accommodate IBC, according to planner nick Bobroff. Planners had not required IBC to pay Parking Improvement Development Impact Fees when it added a patio in 2009, even though staff had recommended the payment then due to IBC using public parking maintained by the city for its business. Despite pleas from Wright and his wife/co-owner Cheryl Wright for IBC to be again sheltered from paying parking fees—which the owners called “burdensome” considering the expansion expense
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already being shouldered—planners found it to be fair and consistent to charge IBC for two spaces worth of parking fees totaling just over $10,000. Currently, IBC uses two parking spaces in front of the building it would expand into, but the plan to extend the patio removes those spots, resulting in an overall reduction of parking at the site. additionally, IBC would be required to pay an annual Parking Business Improvement assessment fee of $1,300, up from its current payment of $650 annually to use city parking spots at the train station. While IBC has grown, its parking has shrunk due to outdoor patio space eating up what had traditionally been parking at the site, reasoned planners in deciding to enforce the $10,000 fee. after some debate on the issue, Commissioner Jane Benefield asked project architects what the tasting room capacity would be after the expansion, to which developers replied, “209 people.” Of the need for parking and the fairness of city fees, Benefield concluded, “Let’s say we have 209 people there, and we have 18 parking spaces. I think that that speaks for itself.”
Card of Thanks The family of Anita S. Quiroga would like to thank family and friends for their loving support at this difficult time. The flowers, food and prayers were overwhelming. We will never forget. Love & Blessings, The Hernandez, Quiroga and Gutierrez families
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