County Supervisors To Vote on Parking Plan

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will discuss the proposed Isla Vista parking plan at its meeting today and decide whether or not to approve it - likely drawing a large crowd of I.V. resi...
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Parking Permit Remains Subject of Debate, Anger

Students and community representatives met Tuesday to organize their complaints about the proposed Isla Vista parking plan for the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors meeting May 18.
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Parking Research Drives I.V. Planners

In the recently proposed parking permit plan for Isla Vista, county planners aimed to address the findings of two traffic studies a few years ago.
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Group Seeks to Edit I.V. Parking Plan

Associated Students members and community representatives, who have been meeting for several weeks to discuss a proposed Isla Vista parking permit program, decided last night not to oppose the plan ou...
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Emergency Crews Fight Ongoing Forest Fire

Firefighters responded to a brush fire in the Los Padres National Forest near Santa Ynez at approximately 3 p.m. Monday and have continued to battle the fire throughout the night.
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Students Demand I.V. Plan Revisions

In preparation for a Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors hearing, community representatives and members of Associated Students met Thursday to come up with ideas on how to alter or delay the pro...
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I.V. Locals Worry About Parking, Access to Ellwood

Residents of Isla Vista and Goleta met at Isla Vista Elementary School last night to voice their concerns about the proposed Ellwood-Devereux Open Space Plan to representatives from the county's Plann...
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Parking Fee Plan Receives A.S. Attention

Around a dozen members of UCSB Associated Students met with a Santa Barbara County planner Friday to voice concerns regarding a proposed permit plan that would require Isla Vista residents to pay for ...
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Grant Maintains Pesticide Education

The Central Coast's Environmental Defense Center (EDC) received a $198,000 grant from the California Endowment two weeks ago to continue to educate the farmworker population in Santa Barbara County ab...
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Kids’ Fundraiser Sparks Local Flocking Frenzy

Resorting to some unorthodox vandalism and fundraising tactics, a band of local teenagers from a church in Goleta scattered flocks of 15 pink plastic lawn flamingos in the yards of church members - th...
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Large Donation To Help Goleta Preserve Mesa

The Goleta City Council voted unanimously yesterday to accept a $4 million grant from the California Wildlife Conservation Board to aid the city in the preservation of Ellwood Mesa.
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County To Put In New Filters to Trap DP Trash

After some delay, the Santa Barbara County Water Agency and the UCSB Shoreline Preservation Fund (SPF) will install three storm drains on Del Playa Drive in an effort to prevent ocean pollution.
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I.V. Theater Hopes “Big Fish” Will Rekindle Its Magic

A new film series sponsored by the university will debut this Friday night in an attempt to diminish Del Playa Drive crowds and revive Isla Vista Theater's 70s "Magic Lantern" movie house heritage.
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Grocery Strikers Bag New Contract

After 141 days, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) settled on an agreement with Albertsons, Ralphs and Safeway and ended the grocery strike.
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Sorority Race Benefits Cancer Research

The 3rd annual Kappa Dash began at 11 a.m. in front of the Kappa house at 6525 Picasso Road, circled around the lagoon, and finished back at the Kappa house. The event raised $6,000 to fight breast an...
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