Village Beat
by Kelly Mahan
has been Editor at Large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito Kelly and beyond. She is also a licensed Realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and the Calcagno & Hamilton team. She can be reached at Kelly@montecitojournal.net.
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New MPC & MBAR Members P R I VAT E J E T C H A R T E R Charles Newman, who ran for the Montecito Water District board in November, has been appointed to the Montecito Planning Commission
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ext Tuesday, January 17, new First District supervisor Das Williams is expected to announce and confirm his recent appointments to the Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) and Montecito Board of Architectural Review (MBAR) to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. Both governmental bodies are going strong, nearly 14 years after their 2003 inceptions. The MPC and MBAR were formed after an attempt to annex
Local landscape architect Sam Maphis is back on MBAR after retiring in 2015. Maphis served on the board since its inception in 2003.
Montecito as its own city. At that time, Montecito land use issues were heard by the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission, and many Montecito residents thought our community would be better served with a separate planning commission and architectural review board solely for Montecito. Bob Meghreblian and other instrumental Montecito residents formed a group to look into the idea, and after
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Congratulations to Marsha Kotlyar for two successful land sales
1389 Oak Creek Canyon Road
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Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties is pleased to congratulate Marsha Kotlyar on the successful representation of the sellers at two seperate Montecito ocean view parcels. 1389 Oak Creek Canyon Road sold for close to its asking price of $2,995,000 and 626 Alston Road sold for its full asking price of $1,362,600.
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