City Council — January 26, 2026

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Welcome to the Carpinteria City Council meeting. Today is Monday, January 26th and we will start with a roll call please.

I have a request. I would like to request that we add to the agenda that the City of Carpinteria make a formal statement standing with the city of Minneapolis and the communities impacted by recent federal immigration enforcement activities, and to observe a moment of silence in memory of Renee Good and Alex Preti. This would allow for our city to publicly express solidarity with our fellow communities and affirm the City's commitment to community safety, civil liberties as well as to acknowledge the tragic loss of life that has been happening during these recent federal ICE operations.

Second.

We have a first and a second. All those in favor?

Aye

Thank you for bringing that up, Councilmember Mayer.

And Mayor Alarcon through the mayor we just have to make some specific findings to add something onto the agenda after the agenda has been posted so if I can do that I'd appreciate that. So there is a process to do this it does require two-thirds vote of the council to add an agenda item after the 72 hours has passed. We've satisfied that requirement. The second requirement is We have to

comfortable with starting our meeting with that moment of silence. Okay so we'll introduce the agenda item as council member mentioned in her statement and I will open up any public comment period. I do not have any speaker slips and would invite anyone in the audience to have any comments or share any comments if you'd like seeing none yes Hi Teresa.

Hi everybody, we have just been feeling this really heavy in our hearts and so we just are thankful for you for bringing that up I think we're expected to go about our lives as you know just any other day and we certainly were feeling the heaviness of it and we appreciate it being acknowledged

thank

you

Hello Councilmember, I'm Jessica Ramirez and I just wanted to thank you Councilmember Mayer for bringing this to the agenda as well. We have a few comments we want to make later and they are around this current thing that's happening right now. And so it feels very nice that our council is able to really, you know, have a moment of silence and focus on the travesties that are happening in our community. So thank you.

Seeing no other public comments or speakers in the room, do we have anyone on Zoom? I'm

there. We have no raised hands for this item.

I will go ahead and close public comment and I'll ask Council Member Mayer if you'd like to kick us off with a moment of silence. I think that's fitting.

Thank you. So, to stand in solidarity with another community as we have also experienced, you know, deep impact of the ICE operations, but truly to recognize the tragic loss of life that is occurring during these raids. Would you please take a moment of silence?

Thank you all. Thank you to the council for having participated in this and for the rest of those in the chamber meeting rooms. Just as Teresa mentioned, I think this is a very heavy topic for so many of us in the nation. So thank you. We will now begin, move on with the agenda with introductions, proclamations and presentations. And we will provide a proclamation proclaiming February 2026 as Black History Month in the City of Carpinteria.

I would like to first open up public comment. I do not have any speaker slips. Do we have anyone on Zoom?

Mayor, we have no raised hands.

Okay. I will go ahead and close public comment and bring it back to the Council for a motion.

I move to adopt the proclamation proclaiming February 2026 as Black History Month in the City of Carpinteria. Second.

We have a first and second, all those in favor?

Aye.

And we will begin reading the proclamation beginning with Councilmember Mayer.

Whereas Black History Month is an annual observance in February dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the invaluable contributions and achievements of African Americans throughout the history of the United States, and

whereas a national theme for Black History Month 2026 is A Century of Black History Commemorations marking the 100th year of national efforts to recognize black history and culture Focusing on how these commemorations have shaped identity, fostered pride, advanced equality and transformed the status of black people in America and the world.

Whereas 2026 marks a century of national commemorations of Black history, dating back to the early efforts of Carter G. Woodson and others who institutionalized the teaching, study, dissemination and commemoration of Black history through the founding of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915 and

Whereas as part of the global African diaspora, people of African descent in the United States have viewed their role in history as critical to their own development and that of the world and observed the milestones in their struggle to gain their freedom and equality.

Whereas when Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1926, he sought to turn the commemoration into a far-reaching organized and sustained effort to transform how blacks were viewed themselves and how the world viewed them

Whereas in 1976, President Gerald Ford became the first president to issue a message recognizing Black History Month. And in 1986 Congress passed Public Law 99-244 designating February as Black History Month and...

Whereas these efforts have made February the month when black history finds its way into not only schools but also into cultural heritage sites public squares workplaces houses of worship and homes across the land and across the oceans

Now therefore, the City Council of the City of Carpinteria does hereby recognize and honor Black History Month 2026 embracing the theme A Century of Black History Commemorations and honors the founders of Black History Month and urges all to explore the impact and meaning of black history and life commemorations in transforming the status of black peoples in the modern world.

And with that, I'd love to invite up Diane Travis Teague to share a few words. And then we will provide you with the proclamation.

Thank you. Mayor Alicant, members of the City Council, community members, friends and neighbors on behalf of the Black History Celebration Committee thank you for this meaningful proclamation and for your continued commitment to honoring black history not just as history but as living evolving contributions to our shared communities This year's national theme, A Century of Black History Commemorations reminds us that remembrance is an act of care. For generations communities have gathered to ensure black stories leadership creativity and resilience are seen valued and carried forward We are deeply grateful to Carpinteria for standing with us in that commitment, recognizing that when we honor black history, we strengthen our collective understanding, empathy and sense of belonging.

Thank you for this recognition, for your partnership and for your help in cultivating a community where history is acknowledged with respect, purpose and hope. Thank you.

We invite you to take a photo with us in front.

He was asking about the schedule of Black History events. They will be published in the Santa Barbara Independent and there will also be broadcast on KEYT, so please feel free to join us. Thank you

We will now move on to the second item on our agenda, which is a mayoral recognition awarded to our very own city clerk Brian C. Barrett for achieving the master municipal clerk designation. I would like to first open up the floor to any public comment. I do not have any speaker slips. Do we have anyone in the audience? Seeing none, do we have anyone via Zoom?

We have no raised hands, Mayor.

OK. I'll go ahead and officially close public comment. And I will ask for a motion

I move to adopt the mayoral...

I don't know that we

need to actually.

Do we need a motion for mayoral recognition?

Mayor Alcorn, Councilor... excuse me, Vice-Mayor Solorzano through the mayor. We don't necessarily need one but it doesn't hurt either so

let's do it. Let's do the most because we're very grateful to have you.

So I move to adopt this mayoral recognition to City Clerk Brian C. Barrett for achieving the Master Municipal Clerk designation.

Second.

We have a first and a second, all those in favor?

Aye

I'd like to read what is on the certificate. So it says, The City of Carpinteria commends and congratulates city clerk Brian C. Barrett on achieving the Master Municipal Clerk designation, the highest professional honor awarded by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks. This accomplishment reflects exceptional dedication to public service, professional excellence and a steadfast commitment to the principles of effective and ethical municipal government. The City of Carpinteria is grateful for your leadership and service to our community.

Thank you, Brian.

Can I make a few comments? I just want to make sure that the audience understands that a lot of the work that Brian does as city clerk is invisible to a lot of people but it also is fundamental to the city running as well as it does. I've been honored to know Brian since before I was on council and so I've been able to see him in action in a lot of different ways that serve the city just so well. So we're so proud of your dedication to your own professional development, to making sure that you're the absolute best City Clerk that this city could have. Thank you so much for all that you do.

Thank you very much, Mayor and City Council members. I'm very appreciative of the recognition and very honoured. And this is just one step in the whole process. This isn't the end all. There's still so much to learn in the city clerk profession and I look forward to continuing in it with the City of Carpinteria. Thank you very much.

And we'd love if you would take a photo with us as well.

Thank you.

We will now move on to our third agenda item, which is a presentation by a representative of Chevron USA Inc. about the Carpinteria oil and gas facility decommissioning.

Good evening. And thanks for the opportunity to address City Council. My name is Mark Korte-Nahabedian, and I'm a Public Affairs Advisor at Chevron. We wanted to take time to acknowledge that we've reached an important milestone for the decommissioning of the Carpinteria oil and gas processing facility. We now have the regulatory approvals in hand for the demolition permit that's required to start work Start the first phase of work for this important project and work is set to begin tomorrow morning These initial work activities are going to include the removal of select trees in the southeast corner of the property And will endure for about the next month or so followed by the demolition of the surface facilities including tanks and vessels thereafter All of our neighbor notifications have been provided and FAQs have been developed in partnership with the City's PIO to be uploaded to the city's webpage to help address community questions about the project.

We place the highest priority on the health and safety of our workforce, and the protection of the environment in the communities in which we operate This morning, just on the other side of the fence here we held our safety and awareness training for our personnel who will be involved in this first phase of work including our staff contractors and we had representatives from the City of Carpinteria all in attendance. All of the plans mitigation measures and safeguards associated with this phase of work are approved and ready to be implemented.

This collaborative effort in process for more than five years, has been instrumental in ensuring that the proposed project is implemented in a manner that minimizes and appropriately mitigates potential environmental impacts. We appreciate the time, the expertise and perspective that each interested party has contributed to this significant endeavor. And we are grateful for the efforts to strengthen the project, develop effective mitigations and respond to feedback to ensure the work is done responsibly.

I want to acknowledge in particular the efforts of the City as the lead agency in the CEQA process, and the diligence and care of your staff in making this project a reality. Many people have been instrumental in reaching this milestone, and I'd like to recognize a few of them. Nick Bobroff, Jeanette Gantt, Cody Sargent, Brian Barrett everything coming up Brian tonight.

Shea Darrington, John Alassin, Ryan Kintz, Michael Ramirez, Julisa Briones, Luis Perez, Randy Gillespie and their teams for the years of dedication review and partnership to ensure the quality of this project we're proud to have reached this important milestone together and are here available tonight to answer your questions or community questions that anyone might have related to the start of work And as the project progresses to decommission and remediate this long-standing site. Thank you.

Thank you. I'd like to open it up for any questions from the Council? No, no questions. Okay, thank you. I will go ahead and open up public comment. I do not have any speaker slips. I'm gonna give anyone in the audience a moment. Seeing none, do we have anyone on Zoom?

Mayor, we have no raised hands.

I'll go ahead and officially close public comment and I will bring it back to the council for any final questions or comments and a motion please.

I move to receive and file the presentation on the California oil and gas facility decommissioning. Second.

We have a first and a second all those in favor?

Aye

We will now move on to public information reports and announcements. Do we have a representative from our first district supervisor's office? Seeing no one in the audience, I'll look to staff. Do we have any update in terms of whether or not they'll be attending today?

Yeah, Mayor. I hadn't heard otherwise and so if we could perhaps postpone this in case they're running late and I will do my best to find out here in the next few minutes whether that's what's happening. Thank you.

Just making sure with the rest of the council? Okay. We'll go ahead and postpone this agenda item and we will move on to the City Manager's Report.

And Mayor, I did just look down and see a text message that Daisy should be arriving any second. It also sounds like she's listening because she said go ahead and do your city manager report first. So first, I'll just say that I want to appreciate the council for Recognizing Brian this evening. We are very much a team and while not necessarily in the sense of being competitive to outdo one another, we do like awards and certificates mainly because they help inspire others to work hard and strive for bigger and better things. And so thank you and thank you to Brian for all the work that he put in there As has been custom, I'll be joined by a few different people in helping me provide different parts of this report.

For those listening at home just want to let you know that we don't always cover everything in the City Manager's Report so I encourage people to read that and there's also helpful links in there and then of course for the Council if there is any item of particular interest happy to agendize that for future meeting and bring that back And so with that, I'll start off by introducing Assistant City Manager Ryan Kentz to give some city employee updates.

Thank you Mr. Ramirez. Council? Mayor? Just a brief update on some current recruitments we continue to move forward on several part-time positions to support parks recreation and aquatics operations for the aquatic instructor coach one two and three positions candidates have been selected and are currently pending some background screening We also have the lifeguard program coordinator 1, 2 and 3 recruitment that remains open at this time.

The deadline to apply for that position is February 4th so we encourage those interested to continue to apply. New employees I want to note a recent hire David Rousseau joined the city as a parks and facilities attendant He's part time and he began work on January 26, 2026. We're really glad to have him on board already providing great impact to the city. And then I wanted to just provide a quick update on employee leadership and development as Michael mentioned we have a great staff here is always seeking professional development. Assistant Engineer Josefina Arrechiga recently completed the Resident Engineers Academy. This is a 16-module training program provided by the California Local Technical Assistance Program. The academy focuses on real world project delivery and construction contract management, including pre-construction planning, scope development legal requirements payments environmental compliance and labor standards.

Completion of this program definitely strengthens Josefina's technical capacity and supports the city's ability to effectively manage state and federally funded construction projects so congratulations to Josefina for achieving this and that's it for me

If there are no questions, I will bring up our Community Development Director Nick Bobroff to give us some updates on development applications.

Good evening Mayor Alarcon, Council Members. I've got a handful of updates here in this week's City Manager's Report that I wanted to share with you. Right off the top of the list here was just to remind everybody that the Draft Environmental Impact Report or EIR for the Surfliner Inn Project has been released For a 45-day comment period so that 45 day Comment period started last week on January 22nd, and it will run through March 9th We'll also be holding a meeting with the city's Environmental Review Committee Which will provide an overview of the project and opportunity for the public to ask questions and provide feedback on the draft EIR That meeting's scheduled for February 18th at 5.30 p.m., here in the Council Chambers, and the draft EIR and all of the attachments and supporting documents are up on our city website where anybody can view them, download them, print them if they want to.

We also have paper copies that folks can look at but not take home here at Carpinteria City Hall and at the Carpinteria Library. And if folks have questions, they can email our principal planner, Mindy Fogg, at mindyf, as in Frank, at carpinteriaca.gov We've also recently seen a number of Permits and business license applications for some new businesses that will be coming online here in the near future in the downtown. And I want to highlight just a couple of those.

So building permits have been issued or are ready to issue for both the Palms renovation, including half of the former Oaxaca Fresh Space which will be a new kind of cafe deli associated with the Palms. And then also Arnie's Rooftop Bar which is the second floor space overlooking Linden Avenue at the new Linden Square development. So construction will be underway at both of those soon if not already And Arnie's will be coming before the City Council at an upcoming meeting to request approval of their ABC license for the bar use We've also been in early communications with the new tenant for the former Carp Kitchen space at 4945 Carpinteria Avenue.

It'll be called Coyote's Little Market, and it will be a meat and seafood market along with local dry goods and kitchen essentials. So they're going through the business licensing process with us currently, and they hope to be open later this spring. And then finally, at the former Giovanni's space there at the corner of Linden and Carpinteria Avenue we've been working with the new tenant there which will be Ojai Roti Du.

They're working on a cleanup of the property and they got building permits that are in plan check right now and I expect they're targeting an opening date later this spring as well I know we've already heard from Mark with Chevron, so I don't need to remind you that work will be starting there this week. But I do want to make quick mention of items coming up on a couple of our other public hearing agendas. So later this week on Thursday here in the Council Chambers at 530 p.m., The Architecture Review Board will be completing a final review of the Burgess-Burke Residence Remodel and Addition Project at 748 Maple Avenue.

Also looking at the Cypress Apartments renovation, which is at 4956 5th Street for final review. And they'll be doing a preliminary review of the Surf Cottages three-unit condominium project at 4716 7th Street. That project was formerly known as the Go Buddy Condominium Project under a previous owner and it's now been purchased and given a refresh, so it's coming back through the process again.

That ARB meeting will be at 530 here in the Council Chamber. Agenda and staff reports are up on the City website already. Then next Monday, a week from tonight The Planning Commission will be holding their first meeting of the new year, and they'll be taking a look at a new proposed single-family residence for 333 Linden Avenue as well as a proposed wireless communications facility at 912 Linden Avenue. And the agenda and staff reports will be up for that item later this week.

And that concludes my items unless you have any questions?

I just have one question, and it might just be because I'm new and I don't know the answer. But who is on the City's Environmental Review Committee?

Through the Mayor, Councilmember Mayer, the ERC is made up of the Community Development Director, the Public Works Director, the Public Works Environmental Programs Manager, our City Biologist, and we have one member of the public at large which currently is Jenny Slaughter.

Thank you.

Can you actually expand on a little bit of what the public could expect for that meeting?

Sure. We're talking about at the ERC meeting? So, at the ERC meeting, the environmental consultant team will provide an overview of what the EIR looks at so they'll provide a project description, summary of the proposed or the anticipated impacts and any proposed mitigation measures as well as some discussion of the alternatives that were considered From there, the public will have an opportunity to ask questions or make comments on the EIR. So it's an opportunity both for folks to learn more about the project, help inform maybe their ongoing research into the project and give them some additional resources to find out More about the project without having to read the entire 400 pages themselves if they want to.

And it's also an opportunity for folks to give verbal comments on the adequacy of the ER, so we take those just the same as we would a written letter. We make notes of them, record them and then respond to them in the future revisions to the EIR. And then lastly, the ERC members themselves have an opportunity to ask clarifying questions or provide any input or suggestions on any revisions or refinements to the document. So it's mostly an informational meeting. It's not meant to be a meeting where there is any kind of approval or denial. They're an advisory board in this case to the Planning Commission much like the Architecture Review Board is So they're going to provide comments and feedback, and that's carried on to the Planning Commission who will ultimately be responsible for deciding whether or not to accept the EIR.

Thank you. That was really helpful. Are there any other questions on behalf of Council?

Mayor, I just wanted to talk about the Prop 218 assessment ballots that went out. Those were mailed out on January 9th and property owners have begun receiving those ballots already. I was just informed that we've received a little over 1,000 ballots already for the Landscape Maintenance District and approximately 100 for the Winter Burn District. Ballot or property owners may return those ballots by mail at any time, and to be counted the ballots have to be received by the city clerk no later than the close of the public hearing to be held here on March 9th.

And staff continues to assist property owners with questions related to the assessment districts, the ballot procedures, applicable timelines and so forth So people can go to CarpinteriaCA.gov forward slash assessment districts or they can email staff directly at assessment districts at CarpinteriaCA.gov and I can assure folks that that doesn't go to some generic inbox, it actually goes to this gentleman right here Assistant City Manager Ryan Kentz and also Julissa Briones and they're able to help people in both English and Spanish and while I can't really comment on the type of responses we've been receiving. I can say that overwhelmingly people have felt better about whatever decision they were going to make after talking to staff when they've had questions, so I really encourage people to do that and to make sure you vote.

They're all pre-paid postage envelope and encourage people to return those. Also before I actually hand it off to Brian to talk about a new management system that we have, I'll just touch base on a few things. Parks Recreation and Community Services. So there's an Aloha Friday luau for Agewell. It's an annual dance and it will be held on Friday February 13th at 5 30 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Hall It's a free community event with food, tropical music, dancing and great company. RSVP is requested and the number to do that is 805-881-1279 Or by emailing agewell at CarpinteriaCA.gov, so hope to see folks out for that and then the lecture series they're going to be doing another one I believe they've done this one before and it was well attended in advanced care directive workshop in collaboration with Hospice of Santa Barbara So Age Well will host a two-part advanced care directive workshop on February 5th and the 12th from 1 to 2.30 p.m.

at the Veterans Hall meeting room, and it'll guide participants through planning ahead by outlining medical wishes and designating a healthcare representative in the event they're unable to communicate for themselves. So, happy to answer questions on the assessment or any of the recreation items. And if not I have Brian left to make a few comments.

One question about the assessment districts. Um so the March 9th hearing that's the deadline for people to send them in? Are there going to be reminders from the city just so that people you know who might not have turned it in yet will be continuously encouraged to do so?

Thank you for that question. I was actually having a chance to talk to with our city attorney just beforehand and of course, for people who don't know it's the process is very strict and requires the city to maintain a strictly educational stance without being any way Advocacy, one way or another. So she promised to have a conversation with me after about the most appropriate way to continue to inform people after. I'll report back to you all at the next meeting.

Any

other

questions? We'll end with our master to talk a little bit about our new agenda management system.

Thank you, Michael. I'm pleased to announce that we've gone our new agenda management system Civic Plus has gone live now on our city website so if you like to look at the screen I'll go ahead and kind of walk you through what City Council meetings and other Planning Commission etc will be posted and what it will look like. So starting here on our agenda page So right now you still see, we've got a note here explaining the whole transition process. We still have the regular, this is our old agenda management system, Granicus. Right now the architectural review board meeting of this Thursday will be the last public meeting through the Granicus portal. It'll be streamed and posted through Granicus, and then beginning next Monday, the February 2nd Planning Commission will be in the new system, Civic Plus.

So if you scroll down below Granicus on the agenda page This is the new Civic Plus agenda management system. So, the nice thing with this is you can select meetings by date range. You can hone in like you just want to see City Council or one of the other boards and committees just focus on that. It has a very robust search engine so not only will it search through the agendas but all the meeting materials as well for any particular keywords you're looking for.

So as I noted, the February 2nd Planning Commission next Monday will be the very first one that will be streamed and posted through this system. I posted the January 12th Council meeting just so everybody could kind of see what the actual agenda would look like. This is again just a sample right now. Let's see... Okay, so here you've got kind of the bones of the agenda, the sections.

And then down here you've got item one, the proclamation. You can click on the link. It'll open up the agenda packet right to that proclamation. Internet's unfortunately just a little slow right now. And there's the proclamation, and then the nice thing is all the items in the agenda packet are bookmarked. So you can just go and click on any one of the items and go right to it.

So right now you're looking at the meeting overview. You could also go to the meeting media. Right now, of course, there's no video tied to this meeting but this is where you'd go to click to actually watch the live meeting or the recorded meeting after the fact. And then the next one is the meeting files tab. Again, pardon the lag. Oh, sorry. All right and then again you're back to this page with the bookmarks for each item and the whole agenda packet here and then I don't see it here but there is also oh no here it is the submit comment so this is again similar to our e-comment feature in the previous into the previous agenda management system where you could submit an e-comment directly for that item. Right now, this is just set per agenda so you have to just notify what item number you're speaking on and that's pretty much it.

So that's kind of the new layout of the new agenda management system for everybody. Are there any questions?

It doesn't look like we have any questions.

Mayor, that concludes my report.

So I will go ahead and open up public comment. I do not have any speaker slips. I do have speaker slips. They're on their way. So i'd like to call up Tristine

So I now have my answer. I was wondering whether the amendment that appears in small print was the same as builders remedy in the conditional certification of Coastal approval of rezoning the Baylord and Ben Garden. And just so you know, because I was shocked to see this but I guess it shouldn't be a surprise. It says that the developer now has something called use by right and that means, this says in this little amendment that was in small print, that the county's review shall not require a conditional use permit development plan Environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act or other discretionary review or approval pursuant to government code section and then it gives the sections.

We have lost, and this is now baked in to the approvals for these rezonings. It will now create precedent for them going forward. It seems that we really have... We are going to have very little approval over what they build, and those of us who live at Baylord who are very worried about the impact on our parking and our escape routes in the case of an emergency.

We feel in despair, really. So just heads up this is where things are and if the supervisors approve it tomorrow which they will it's just going to be a rubber stamp then this is what we live with and there will be more rezoning and this will now be the way it is Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Carl Sunken, welcome.

Yes, I'm a neighbor of Tristine's and I've spoken out before about the Baylor project as now approved by the Coastal Commission. I'm just hoping that the City Council can go to their private telephones tonight maybe call some other friends on the Board of Supervisors and see what you can do about trying to protect us, because this Baylor development looks now like it is baked in.

So I'm just hoping that the council can work with us or work in our favor. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. I'd like to bring it back to... Well, I don't see any other speaker steps. Do we have anyone on Zoom?

Mayor, we do have one raised hand. We have Betty Jepson. Betty go ahead.

Yes good afternoon mayor and city council I urge you to do what you can to oppose this development there is a very bad precedent by bundling the Baylor property with the Van Vingerden properties because they are not contiguous they are not the same Van Wingerden was in Sacramento speaking in favor of having his two parcels developed. is completely opposed, including by yourselves the city of Carpinteria. You did a wonderful job. You have fantastic material on your website against the development.

It is a death trap trying to have this property with 173 units behind Hisidas Village which already has 280 units representing 1400 residents and the Villa Del Mar on the other side Trying all to get out on Baylert in Sacramento, the developer for Redtail said that he had three escape units. I have only seen one. for myself, but I was the president of Casitas Village when I wrote a letter on March 7th of 2024. And the developer got in my face and said if Casitas Village doesn't give us your back alley for our second escape route which the city of Carpinteria requires we're going to take it by eminent domain using housing authority to do so And that is what I think if they have one, their second exit route is. That alley belongs to Casitas Village.

It's private property. Casitas Village pays taxes on it and it is the only way for everyone on Birch Street to leave. It is where their garage is back out onto. And finally we're already, Casitas Village in Villa Del Mar providing housing for workers And most people have cars. They have a very difficult time parking as it is. The Casitas Village is constantly having hearings on fines for people who park in the fire lanes.

It is extremely dangerous, it is not just a matter of providing housing but it's also a matter of what you have so wonderfully done in the past and continue to do is provide safety and health benefits for those people who already reside in Carpinteria So I really applaud you for what you've done, but please don't give up. Please continue to do the work of closing this project. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

And Mayor that concludes Zoom comment.

We'll go ahead and officially close public comment. I'll bring it back to the Council if there's any final questions or comments? Thank you for the city manager's report. We will now move on to, we're going to back up a little and hear from Daisy who will provide a public information report and or announcements from our first district supervisor's office. Welcome.

Hello, good evening Mayor Alarcon and the rest of the council. Apologies for the tardiness thanks for being understanding I was listening. Congratulations Brian you really are totally awesome so thanks I like working with you Okay, I have a bunch of updates because I wasn't here in December so bear with me. The first thing I wanted to update everyone on was tomorrow the Board of Supervisors has An item on the rezones, the LCP rezones that went to the Coastal Commission and what's coming back. So what's coming back before the board is an acceptance of the modifications that were proposed by the Coastal Commission The board unanimously accepted the rezones with the modifications of at least 32% of the units that are built have to be affordable, and those affordable units have to last the lifetime of the project.

So those are...that's the scope of what the supervisors are voting on tomorrow. We are going to, that item is A-20 and our office has pulled it because we have questions about it. We would like to get some clarity on the withdrawal of the builder's remedy project specifically at Baylord and what that means for a new project. And we're asking about CEQA and EIR requirements as it pertains to the fine print actually that is in the rezones. So, we did pull that item. It's Administrative Item 20.

If anybody wants to make public comment, there is the availability to do it on Zoom just like here. Okay. Moving on... The Baylor Project is probably the number one thing we get questions about from Carpinteria residents. Well, there's two items. I'll get to the other one later. Preface this with, there's a lot of unanswered questions about Baylor. There is a lot of info out there that is old info because we just haven't seen a project yet. The last project that we have seen was under Builders Remedy. It's from 2024. It is the project that the Coastal Commission poked holes in and got a verbal recognition that they were going to Redo the project. I'm sure they worked on it with the Coastal Commission, but no one has seen an updated plan so When folks say that this is a project that has been approved This project has not been approved because we haven't seen the project No one has seen the project We're waiting on that.

So I want to give you a bit of a status update so back in December, we had a meeting we host our office hosted meeting here actually so we co-hosted I guess with the city managers. City Manager Ramirez was there, and Assistant City Manager Kintz was there. And Director Bobroff was there. The Housing Authority reps were there. The Red Tail reps were there. Our County Planning and Development reps were there, and our office was there.

This is very uncommon. This is not how things typically go, and our goal is to get more collaboration and more transparency and more answers. So the result of that meeting was an agreement to move forward with more transparency, an agreement to move forward with more collaboration, and an agreement from Red Tail and the Housing Authority to co-host info sessions on the project itself and the different ways that the community can apply for housing. So, that was how that meeting ended.

The next status is that we're waiting on the builder's remedy to be withdrawn and a new project to be submit. I don't think it's controversial to say that we do not want a builder's remedy project. We would like to see more, um...we would like to see it move through the process so that there is more input from community members and the county. Um, I just wanna reflect that we I've met with a lot of the folks behind us.