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‘A Day of Giving’ Congregation B’nai B’rith helps with community projects on Mitzvah Day
Proposed development under review in Carp By NEIL HARTSTEIN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
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Volunteers assemble lunch bags and basic hygiene items for the monthly Wednesday Navigation Center at Santa Barbara Rescue Mission during Mitzvah Day at the Congregation B’nai B’rith synagogue in Santa Barbara on Sunday.
By NEIL HARTSTEIN
The City Council, Planning Commission and Architectural Review Board will meet today to review conceptual plans for a three-story mixed-use development in Carpinteria’s downtown core that would include apartments, commercial space and covered parking. Staff is recommending the three bodies receive public comment and provide conceptual review and comments on the proposed mixed-use development for a 0.87acre lot at 4745 Carpinteria Ave. currently occupied by Sun Coast Rentals. The council, commission and board will meet at City Hall, starting at 5:30 p.m. “The purpose of the conceptual review process is to allow an applicant to submit tentative plans in order to receive advisory comments and suggestions from the city’s decision makers,” staff said. “These advisory comments shall constitute a conceptual review only. A conceptual review and recommendation are not binding upon the Planning Commission or City Council as to any further determinations to be made with respect to the project. “The city decision makers shall be wholly free to render a different determination and/or decision upon formal review of the project.” Upon completion of the conceptual review process, the next step for the applicant would be to submit a formal application for the project. Once the city has
deemed the application complete, environmental review pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act would be conducted, followed by formal review by the Architectural Review Board and Planning Commission, appealable to the City Council. The proposed concept contemplates a commercialresidential mixed use development on the western edge of the city’s downtown core in place of an existing equipment rental business. The project represents an opportunity for higher density infill development, including both expanded visitorserving commercial leasable space and one- and two-bedroom workforce rental housing, including a number of incomerestricted affordable units, on an under-utilized site on the Carpinteria Avenue corridor. “Downtown mixed-use developments that provide opportunities for both new/ expanded commercial development in the downtown and desperately needed new workforce housing … concentrate (such) housing near job centers and existing businesses, and in close proximity to essential services (including, but not limited to, transit),” staff said. “Higher density mixed use developments also help to foster a more lively and vital downtown district by introducing additional yearround residents to the area to supplement seasonal tourism. “The redevelopment of the site with a multi-story mixed use building creates an opportunity Please see CARP on A4
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Santa Barbara residents flocked to Congregation B’nai B’rith on Sunday morning to celebrate “A Day of Giving” by helping with 10 community projects ranging from feeding the hungry to providing candy snowmen for kids with cancer to supporting Ukrainian soldiers on the front line to serving terminally ill adults and their families by making end-of-life dreams come true. The temple at 1000 San Antonio Creek Road invited the community to participate in the goodwill efforts as part of Mitzvah Day – A Day of Giving to Benefit the Community. “Mitzvah Day is CBB’s annual community-wide day of service,” Elizabeth Gaynes, the congregation’s executive director, told the News-Press. “People of all ages come together for a morning filled with good work helping others.” Ms. Gaynes said the first Mitzvah Day took place in 2005, and that the congregation has held another 14 Mitzvah Days since then. “One of the core values of Judaism is ‘tikkun olam,’ a Jewish concept defined by acts of kindness performed to perfect or repair the world,” Ms. Gaynes said. “Congregation B’nai B’rith is a diverse, inclusive community of individuals and families building together a warm and vibrant house of living Judaism. “The annual day of service has expanded to Tikkun Olam Initiatives that happen all year long, as well as many Mitzvah projects as part of the school curriculum,” she added. “Mitzvah
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The Big Christmas Brass Show plays holiday tunes to the public in a free show at Storke Placita in downtown Santa Barbara on Saturday.
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By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Santa Barbara’s annual Christmas Brass Extravaganza brought holiday cheer Saturday to Storke Placita Plaza. The core of the group is Santa Barbara’s City College brass
players, along with brass players from other local schools, members of the community and even musicians from across the globe. “This annual event was begun at SBCC in the late ’80s or early ’90s by the band director at the Please see BRASS on A4
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Free concert takes place in Storke Placita Plaza
Day is a great way to get a taste of community service work, to do this work together, and to learn more about our local nonprofit partners here in Santa Barbara and around the world for ongoing volunteer connections.” To make the 10 community projects possible, Congregation B’nai B’rith worked with many local nonprofits. The projects Please see MITZVAH on A4
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Brass players perform Christmas favorites
Above, volunteers create festive snowman candy bars for the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation to give to children fighting cancer. At right, volunteers make animal treats.
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