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july 17, 2014
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A 465-unit residential complex will soon be coming to Goleta, after the City Council approved it 5-0 on 7/15. The Villages at Los Carneros, to be situated between Los Carneros Road and Highway 101, was okayed in June by the city’s Planning Commission and Joaquin Del Rio (left), from Spain, and Giovanni Ludergnani, from will offer a variety of hous- Italy, enjoy Habit burgers. ing types and outdoor amenities. Community members voiced conWant to eat the best burger in the country? cerns about how the project would affect traffic Head on over to the Habit Burger Grill, the and water supplies. The Goleta Water District Goleta-born-and-bred burger chain, 94 locasaid enough water is currently available, but it tions strong, that was just named by Consumer could put the kibosh on water meters for the Reports as the best place to get your patty on. building if resources run dry. After the magazine’s readers scarfed down nearly 100,000 fast-food meals at 65 restauGoleta City Councilmembers Michael Bennett rants nationwide, the Habit beat out In-N-Out and Five Guys for the top burger spot, with eatand Roger Aceves have pulled papers to run ers saying quality trumps convenience. for the November 4 election, according to the city clerk; Councilmember Paula Perotte, Slot player Jesse Castillo, 72, hit a $1,021,730 first elected in 2010 and also up for reelection, hadn’t announced her plans as of press time. jackpot at the Chumash Casino on 7/8, which Bennett and Aceves each earned spots on the is one of the biggest payouts in the casino’s hiscouncil in 2006 and won reelection in 2010. tory. Castillo, from Ventura, was playing a highAceves also challenged 2nd District Supervisor limit $5 machine called Ten Times Pay when he Janet Wolf for her seat in June. The filing period bet the maximum of three credits. “Different for the Goleta election started on 7/14 and ends people have their systems for playing slot on 8/8. Those interested in applying — they machines,” he said in a statement. “I just push must be registered voters living in city limits the button.” ■
Camp 4 Is Third Rail
Santa Barbara County officials and the Environmental Defense Center (on behalf of the Santa Ynez Valley Alliance) sent separate letters last week to the Bureau of Indian Affairs addressing county and valley resident complaints regarding the bureau’s environmental analysis of the Chumash tribe’s request to take its Camp 4 property into federal trust. The county called on the bureau to conduct a more thorough review of the plans, finding fault with the analysis’s use of present-day estimates of effects on nearby areas when the tribe is bound to Williamson Act rules of the land through December 2022; the tribe wouldn’t be able to develop the property until at least early 2023, the county’s report stated. Another omission, the county’s letter continued, came in the bureau’s failing to note that the fee-to-trust process — whereby the land would be removed from the county’s tax rolls and made exempt from its planning regulations — isn’t time-tied. In October, the Board of Supervisors scrapped the Chumash’s Camp 4 annexation request, prompting the tribe to take its plans to Congress, where a piece of federal legislation was soon thereafter introduced. “The county simply refuses to recognize the tribe as a government that is capable of managing its own land-use regulation,” said tribal chair Vincent Armenta, in response to the letters. “As the tribe has done for thousands of years and will continue to do with any project it undertakes, the Camp 4 housing development will both protect and preserve the environment.” The Environmental Defense Center stated otherwise in its letter, noting “flaws” in the assessment related to possible effects on oak trees, wetlands, and animal habitats and chiding the bureau for not examining whether the tribe could accomplish its Camp 4 goal — providing 143 tribal housing units — without taking the fee-to-trust route. On Monday, a separate activist group, Save the Valley — making good on frustrations it voiced earlier this month — filed a lawsuit against the tribe, alleging that the tribe erred in not formally signing its contract under the Williamson Act. The lawsuit takes issue with the tribe benefiting from the decreased taxes afforded under Williamson while, the suit continues, potentially escaping the rules that could be enforced if the property went into federal trust. Save the Valley has asked that the tribe sign the paper and pay the group’s legal fees. Armenta — who previously said the tribe “fully intends” to sign the contract — called the lawsuit “make-believe drama.” — Lyz Hoffman