City Council — September 15, 2026

Hello, everyone.

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Okay, thank you. Roll call, City Council?

Hello, good evening. I'm going to make this announcement. My name is Hugo Santos and I'm here as interpreter for English and Spanish. So I'm going to make an announcement first in Spanish and then in English. Para las personas que deseen escuchar esta sesión en español lo pueden hacer. Aquí en el salón tenemos algunos dispositivos suficientes para las personas que así lo deseen hacer. Solo levanten la mano y se los traeremos a su silla.

We will have interpretation, simultaneous interpretation from English into Spanish. For that we have some devices for you if you want to hear all this event in Spanish just raise your hand and then we can hand you some devices that we have for you if you want to do so. Thank you.

Thank

you.

Okay at this time we will have public forum. Anybody that would like to speak to anything that's not on our agenda this evening?

Yes, thank you Madam Mayor. For those of you on the Zoom webinar who wish to speak to a non-agenda item please use the raised hand icon and I will call on you. I do have two in person speaker slips Stacy Madsen followed by Catherine Barsh. All speakers will have three minutes.

Okay, good evening. As a 23-year Lake Los Caneros neighbor and homeowner I'm opposed to the Anthem Chapel project as proposed. It fails to comply with the Goleta General Plan and conflicts with our city's commitments to public safety, scenic corridor preservation, the Esha, and to local wildlife. Approving this project would establish a damaging precedent. At over 22,000 square feet it's more than double the size of the Islamic Center's 9,802-square foot facility. While the Islamic Center was thoughtfully designed to respect scenic views and blend into the Los Canarios Preserve This project features an excessive building mass and height that conflicts with the Los Caneros scenic corridor. The Islamic Center operates under a cap of 120 people.

This proposal projects up to three Sunday services of five adults in the sanctuary, not including children attending Sunday school in the education center. Translating to a massive influx of over 1,500 adult attendees plus their children every Sunday. To protect pedestrians, cyclists and motorists the Islamic Center incorporated a split access mitigation system with vehicles entering on Los Canarios and exiting onto Calle Real The project proposes all vehicles entering and exiting the site via two driveways on Los Caneros, forcing a high volume of cars onto a single lane road in each direction. This traffic will need to intersect a narrow frequently used bike path with no dedicated left or right turn lanes. This concentration of conflicting traffic will undoubtedly cause backups and safety hazards for drivers and cyclists.

The project's traffic and parking studies initially omitted weekend data entirely, while the revised study claims expected usage to fall within requirements real world observations of operations contradict that. On multiple occasions, actual vehicle counts have exceeded study projections. Although the Islamic Center considered nearby pending and approved projects, this project studies do not. Without independent verified and relevant data how can we accurately evaluate traffic impacts on Los Caneros, Cayo Real and Cathedral Oaks? While the Islamic Center committed to a prohibition on amplified noise, this design proposal openly incorporates amplified sound paired with large industrial roll-up doors that eliminate noise containment. This will have a devastating impact on our neighborhood park users and sensitive wildlife.

We lived through this disruption during the pandemic when the applicant held services in temporary large outdoor tents. These roll up doors will simply make those unmitigated noise levels permanent. Finally, where is this all headed? The Islamic Center was designed for an expected stable predictable baseline of attendees and operations. The current applicant stated the opposite, an intention to maximize growth. This proposal transitions a cherished tranquil residential and recreational area into a regional complex characterized by heavy noisy and hazardous dailies that will permanently alter and disrupt the entire area. Thank you so much for your time and consideration.

Our next speaker is Catherine Bartsch. And the last call for you Zoom speakers, please use raised hand icon for non-agenda items.

Good evening my name is Catherine Bartsch and I live on Covington Way. I am asking you to uphold the Planning Commission's vote to deny the conditional use permit for Anthem Chapel. My opposition is not based on the fact that this is a church It is based on the project's scale, frequency of use and operational intensity which are fundamentally incompatible with the residential character, existing infrastructure and public safety of the Lake Los Canarios corridor and surrounding neighborhood.

The proposed development includes a 6,500 square foot sanctuary seating 500 adults per service plus a separate 13,500 square foot education building where children attend preschool and Sunday school at the same time unaccounted in that 500 seat figure. This extreme level of activity including more than 60 annual events that include weddings and conferences far exceeds what the surrounding neighborhood and transportation infrastructure can reasonably support. The project provides only 117 parking spaces, yet their existing parking supply is already inadequate. In August of 25, I counted 208 vehicles parked in the Goleta Valley Junior High parking lot in the adjacent Santa Barbara Charter School and then in June another count documented 290 vehicles.

Cars also park along the red fire lanes, and on any given Sunday you can go over there and see what that looks like. Adding Anthem's traffic and parking demand would push vehicles onto Lake Los Caneros Road in Covington Way creating serious safety concerns for pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, and emergency responders. The project also proposes two driveways onto Los Caneros Road just 107 feet apart Both crossing the class two bike lane. There is no dedicated left turn refuge for vehicles exiting the site, an issue the city's own design board review board raised without ever receiving a designed solution from the applicant. If vehicles queue in or block the bike lane, cyclists will be forced into lanes of moving traffic and this is inconsistent with the city's goal of providing safe bicycle travel along this designated route.

At the last Planning Commission meeting, Mike Ryder of Anthem Church said and I quote If there's a better option, we would probably take it even now." I believe that statement is important. Finding a location is not the same as finding the right location. This is far more than a neighborhood place of worship. With its size, parking demands, frequent service, 60 annual events, it will function as a regional destination And Anthem has made it clear that it intends to grow. For these reasons, I respectfully urge you to deny the conditional use permit for Anthem Chapel. Thank you very much. Thank you. I

have no more speakers for public forum Mayor.

Okay then we'll close public comment and move into amendments or adjustments to the agenda.

Madam Mayor, no adjustments or amendments. We can move into that though. So last week or last meeting I suppose two weeks ago, I did something new. I showed the coolest thing I saw over the weekend which was a section of our new San Jose Creek multipurpose trail and I wasn't sure If the momentum of last week was going to carry over, but I saw something really cool this past week. So this is the second edition of the coolest thing I saw this past week.

Volume 2. Next slide please. Is there a next slide? Okay what is this? This is our community center. Beautiful building, beautiful auditorium, stage looks nice. Last week we held an e-bike roundtable in our community center and this is something that was hosted by our mayor Paul Perotti, 2nd District Supervisor Laura Capps and MOVES SBC Executive Director Sarah Innarone And I believe there were probably over 25 people they're representing eight different agencies, including the CHP representatives from Cottage Hospital school districts, the city of course and others.

And it was just an amazing roundtable event so I happened to be there and was able to take some photos And you can see people are very engaged, and it was a two-hour meeting. And the focus at the end of it was that I think identifying the challenges and what might lie ahead for ebikes as they become an emerging form of transportation. But the focus was on infrastructure or engineering and making sure that we engineer safe streets and bike lanes in the first place, education enforcement and legislative change. And so it's just an amazing discussion it was really great to see our Mayor Paula Perotti lead the roundtable on something that's really important to her So that was the coolest thing I saw last week and I'll turn it over to you, Madam Mayor.

I assume you might have a few comments about it

as well. Thank you for that. I mean the coolest thing was that you were able to emcee and anybody that knows our City Manager is quite capable of moving things along unlike the City Mayor. So he kept it moving and it was a lively discussion, and I feel like there were so many important people at the table. Our district attorney was there, I don't know if you mentioned that.

Cottage Hospital, they had some grim reports but They had some, we all came together looking at what can we do to not overburden our law enforcement with lots of restrictions that'll be hard to enforce at times. But how, you know, looking at our state legislators who were there to look at legislation that's coming on the, actually there's some legislation sitting on the governor's desk right now, so we'll stay tuned to that.

But it was a really productive roundtable discussion with everybody trying to put their heads together, work collaboratively. And this was just the beginning of the discussion and that's why we kept the invitation only to certain key people that are working. And because we hear about this every day, and we hear about it from our constituents, we hear about it on Nextdoor, we hear about it, people come here and speak to it, why aren't you doing more? Well I think this is the first step. I think really this is the first step. I know they held Move Santa Barbara, glad that they were there at the table. They held another roundtable in San Diegnes Valley and also in Santa Maria And so the next one we have, it'll be more open to the public and parents and students.

I'm guessing whoever wants to come and really come up with some ideas and have more facts from legislative. But the bottom line for me is that we want all modes of transportation to be safe. We want our bikes. We want them all to travel safely. So we want to encourage e-bikes, but we don't – we want to be careful of their safety and their education. But it did really focus on education. That really was a component for the students, and I know some of the schools are implementing training, education and then getting a registration to be able to ride on campus. So that's huge.

A lot of these things are all coming together and I'm really glad we did it and I'm glad that I was invited. I like giving credit where credit is due and Supervisor Capps was the one who thought about this and I think City Manager Robert Nisbet had something to say about, well the mayor is crazy about bikes and advocacy for pedestrian safety. So of course I was thankful that I was invited.

Thank you Mayor. That was a great event.

Yeah it was.

Thank you for queuing that up staff. We do have one more item under city manager's update. We have two staff here from our Public Works Department. Our Director Nina and one of our engineering staff Michael. So another actually engineering and safety related item over the summer and even before that They've been embarked in a massive undertaking to modernize and upgrade our traffic signals, of which we have I want to say 37. But please correct me, Nina.

And it's I think it's 99% complete but it has in the end been a success so we just wanted to give a short report on how that project went.

Good evening Madam Mayor and City Council. Michael Winoiser, our project manager for this project will be giving the update for the citywide traffic signal upgrade project.

Thank you.

Good evening Madam Mayor and City Council members my name is Michael Winoiser as Nina just said I'm the project manager for the citywide traffic signal upgrade project It's my pleasure to provide this brief update on the project as it's coming to a close. This project installed various improvements to 32 intersections throughout the city, modernizing infrastructure that was in some cases up to 30 years old.

First, I want to highlight its project funding. This project was... Its construction was 100% funded through the state's Highway Safety Improvement Program or HSIP grant. This grant was approximately $33.2 million and the funds as I said entirely fund the construction as you see described on screen. Now let's get into what improvements were delivered by the project. First, we're going to go over the improved pedestrian crossings so residents might notice these new pedestrian push button posts as shown on the left. These are ADA compliant posts they're touch sensitive buttons they have audio feedback so you'll be able to hear the wait signal and the street name as well Additionally, all travelers they may experience what we call a leading pedestrian interval.

So this means that when a pedestrian crosses at one of these intersections they're given a few seconds to cross before the traffic signal turns green for oncoming traffic like turn signals. As a result this short interval will be expected to improve overall safety at our intersections although drivers may experience it as a minor lag after they see the walk signal turn on Next up, we'll talk about the improvements to our traffic signal heads.

These improvements are the installation of these retroreflective barriers here. These are bright yellow borders you might now see around the traffic lights all around the city. These are designed to improve visibility at all hours but especially at night as you might see demonstrated here on the screen there's a comparison at Elwood School You can see at night time it's really well lit, really easy to see, very visible.

And lastly, I want to talk about our new traffic cameras. I want to first emphasize what we have publicly stated and that is that these traffic cameras are not license plate readers. They do not enforce traffic in any way. They do not store video. They do not identify vehicles or individuals. They do not issue citations, transmit information to the sheriff's office.

They are not doing any of that sort of thing. What these cameras do is that they detect when a vehicle is present at an intersection, they will communicate with the traffic controller and the signals, and they'll assist the traffic signal in responding based on the detected traffic demand. As a result, these cameras will improve traffic operations throughout the city.

As you can see on the image on the right, that's an approximation of what these cameras are seeing For example, if the camera detects a car in that green section during a yellow light, the light might be notified to extend the yellow to minimize the conflict at the intersection. Ultimately what we are doing is minimizing driver opportunities of running a red light.

Between these adjustments and the adjustments to those leading pedestrian intervals some drivers might still experience some delays. And that concludes my presentation. I'm happy to take any questions you might have on the project and thanks for the opportunity to share it.

Thank you, I have received several emails or phone calls about the traffic signals and mainly it's about are they taking pictures of our license plate? They wanting to know what that's all about so I'm glad you had something to say about that. Council Member Reyes-Martin.

Thank you for the report. I recall from when this item came to us a while ago, you and the team shared some great information of the various ways that these will improve safety. Will there be a way like a year from now or whatever appropriate time to be able to share with us any kind of data on the impact? Or is that based more just on the research and it'll be harder for us to share data?

Council Member Reyes-Martin, we can look that data up annually and see the difference. So that's something we can look at.

Council Member Kariakou.

Thank you Madam Mayor. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about some of the different locations that these new signal posts, the ADA accessible signal posts are situated in the city? I feel like I've seen them in more places than just Encina.

Yeah, they've been implemented all over the city. Most of the locations you've seen in the presentation here is where they've been implemented in the pictures. So for example, at Kinman and Cayo Real is one example. At Elwood School we implemented some. I'm trying to recall off the top my head. Hollister and Marketplace was another or sorry Stork and Marketplace was another.

I don't think I could name all of them off the top of my head, but there's quite a few.

Thank you. I just appreciate you putting those in different parts of the city because it's important in terms of trying to improve accessibility that we're doing it everywhere and also really loving the new signal outlines, the additional reflectiveness really helps at night, really helps.

Council Member Kasdan?

Yeah, I know there had been previous complaints about certain signals that weren't functioning where you'd get stuck. And I can think of like by the high school and at Elwood School. I tried out the Elwood School now so I can attest it worked. You didn't have to just sit in but for the public all of those are now fixed right? There's that issue, the concern is that's over.

Yes Madam Mayor, Council Member Kasdan. There were some timing delays with the signals at various intersections as we implement new technology we have to also implement the underlying I want to say code like interaction and with it with the controller and in the meantime as we set those up in this subcontractor has to come out there Those signals are now put on, will then be put on what we call a recall mode. So it's like the default timing so the lights will no longer be registering cars at that time but like you said now those have been resolved. The project is nearing its completion so you shouldn't be experiencing that same level of delay.

Thank you.

Okay thank you.

That concludes City Manager's update. Thank You Madam Mayor.

Okay then we're moving on to consent calendar

Yes, thank you Madam Mayor. That will be item A1 approval of the City Council meeting minutes of September 1, 2026. Item A2 fiscal year 2025-26 fourth quarter financial review. Item A3 approve the plans and specifications and award construction contract for the Cathedral Oaks Cribble repair project phase one and professional design services agreement amendment with Stantec Consulting Services Inc for the Cathedral Oaks Cribble repair project phase two. And item A4 amendment number one to agreement number 2025-097 with Beyond Heating and Air Inc. for the provision of heating, ventilation and air conditioning maintenance services at various city owned facilities.

Great thank you. Council wish to push any or pull not push pull any items from consent?

Mayor Pro Tem Smith. Yes, I wanted to pull item A3 regarding the crib wall for some brief comments and questions.

Okay Councilmember Kerrioca?

A2 regarding the fourth quarter financial review.

Okay so let's start with... Just a

comment from me.

Okay let's start with A2. Councilmember Kerrioca? Oh read it into the record. Sorry about that.

That's item A2 fiscal year 2025-26 fourth quarter financial review

So I just wanted to thank everyone from the finance department, to the city manager's office, to all of our different department heads. This was a really good report. I was really happy to see incredibly good performance across all of our different fund balances and I didn't want to let this opportunity go to pass to say good job. Sometimes staff takes all the flack and council gets all the credit. I just wanted to make sure that, you know, it's not every day that every single one of your four major categories of revenue all over perform. And I just wanted to call that out.

Thank you. Okay. Mayor Pro Tem Smith, A3. Could you read that?

Yes, that's item A3. Approve the plans and specifications in order of construction contract for the Cathedral Oaks Crowbowl Repair Project Phase 1 and professional design services agreement amendment with Stantec Consulting Services Inc. for Cathedral Oaks Crowbow Repair Project Phase 2.

Yes thank you I just had a few questions comments just because this is an important milestone for this project so So first, can you I guess just refresh our memory in terms of what is the phase one component of the project and what is the phase two?

Madam Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem Smith. Yes, phase one is going to be implementing a pavement project along Calle Real between Cathedral Oaks and Winchester. And Winchester between Calle Real and Cathedral Oaks so that L-shape will be paved because that location would be serving as a detour route during the portion of the phase two when we're reconstructing the wall where Cathedral Oakes Road will be closed during that part of the project.

Okay, great. And is for the paving portion of this phase one project is there a rough estimate of when this will take place?

Mayor Pro Tem Smith, we're expecting the project to start sometime early next month. We are gonna try and get that paving done as soon as possible.

Great, wonderful. And then I understood that there was a sliver of this project that touched the coastal zone but it's correct that the Coastal Commission has authorized or done whatever they need to do to let us proceed is that correct?

Yes, Mayor Pro Tem Smith the Coastal Commission has approved the waiver for the project.

And then I just wanted to comment I reviewed the staff report and I know the nature of the outreach that's done on this work may be slightly different in terms of the paving work for the detour versus once we actually get to the larger project, the actual crib wall repair and road closure. But I did want to flag in reading in terms of the outreach plan that I did want to flag some additional Thank you very much.

restaurant and the gas station. And as that you know potentially the chamber as well, and then of course the schools in terms of you know Brandon School and Dos Pueblos High School so I just wanted to flag that and I'm sure the mayor and I are willing to certainly want to help support those efforts. So I just wanted to call those out as I think those will be important entities to reach out to

So we have a public outreach staff under our construction management contract, so we're happy to loop in those stakeholders as part of that outreach effort.

Wonderful. I think those were all my questions and comments for now. Thank you.

Just a quick question, I understand there's some endangered flowers that are over there. I forgot what it is and I was just curious do we mitigate? Is that how it works if we're disturbing those plants, we plant them somewhere adjacent? You look pained.

Madam Mayor, Council Member Kazin. That is not something I was aware of as a part of this project but it's something we'll definitely have our consultant look into as form of mitigation if we need to for that project. Okay

did you say flowers?

I think

okay

I forgot the name but okay find out what the issue is all right thank you

oh thank you do we have any public speakers

Yes, thank you Madam Mayor. I have no speaker slips. Those of you on the Zoom webinar please use raised hand icon if you wish to speak to a consent item. I'm seeing none Madam Mayor.

Okay thank you. Thank you and we have no speakers for any of the other items that weren't pulled for the whole consent calendar? For the whole consent calendar. Okay I thought I heard that okay thank you. Okay then I'm looking for a motion to approve consent

So moved. I'll second.

Okay, roll call vote please.

Yes, public hearing. Thank you Madam Mayor. That's item B1 Community Development Block Grant CDBG 2025-2026 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report, KPER.

Okay and this is a public hearing so I will open the item and the clerk read from the agenda then we'll have the public hearing open the public hearing Staff will make their presentation. Council can ask questions and then the public testimony from the public, three minutes and staff response if any more questions if possible close the public testimony council deliberation closed public hearing in the city clerk to read the recommendations motion second and roll call.

Okay. Sounds good. So

Ms. Plummer, are you going to start us off? Thank you Madam Mayor and members of Council. Tonight we have the Community Development Block Grant Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report otherwise known as the CDBG CAPER. I'm gonna go ahead and turn it over to Cassidy Laer our Senior Management Analyst and she will share all things CDBG CalPERS with you this evening.

And thank you, Ms. Plummer and good evening. So tonight we're going to be talking about our CDBG paper so this is part of one of our planning documents and for this particular paper it's for program year 2025-2026. So that covers last fiscal year from July 1st 2025 to June 30th 2026 A bit of background on CDBG, the city receives an annual allocation from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. There are various required planning documents that are all related and part of the reason why we're here today.

So we do have our consolidated plan which is our five-year strategy and that details how we invest our CDBG funds throughout that planning period We have our action plan, which details how we actually carry out the goals of such consolidated plan. We have our citizen participation plan, which is part of the reason why we're here today having this public hearing. The purpose is to allow for citizen participation in the planning process and allow for feedback.

And then finally, for today's public hearing it is to go over our Consolidated Annual Performance Evaluation Report also known as the CAPER and this is to report on activities and accomplishments for CDBG each program year. So for this past program year, we had an annual allocation of $320,000. We had two sub-recipients, one being Leap Family Resource Center and the second being People Self Help Housing Supportive Housing Program And for public facilities, we have three public facilities currently being funded with CDBG.

We have the Matilda Park which as of June 30th, 2026 was in construction. We have Goleta Community Center ADA upgrades and also the Skylight Air Placement. Both projects are either in design or bidding. As for accomplishments, because all capital projects are currently either in construction or design we don't have any reportable accomplishments for those. But we do have reportable accomplishments for our public service activities so for elite family resource center the goal we had for them was 200 persons served and they exceeded that with 551.

For people's self-help housing, our goal for them was 230 and they also exceeded that with 402. And when it comes to the percentage of low to moderate income persons, both had over 99% of persons served with CDBG. And that's all I have for this so welcome for comments questions

Council Member Cariocco,

questions. Thank you Madam Mayor. Thank you for that report. Just a quick question I'm looking at the staff report page three under fiscal impact and I believe this is kind of a typical occurrence but perhaps staff could just talk a little bit about the strategy behind it so this section of the report talks about the amount of CDBG resources that were available during the plan year of 2025-2026 320,000 plus in annual entitlement funds and 436,000 plus in prior year unexpended funds. And it says, it goes on to say that we expended $240,000 in change during the program year leaving 517,000 in unexpended funds committed to ongoing eligible activities. Can you just talk a little bit about what's the strategy behind that and why we don't spend it all in this same plan year that we have available to us?

What's the strategy behind that? Is it because we're trying to kind of load it up, build it up so we can load it up onto certain projects that would have more impact or is there another strategy?

Yeah, of course. And that's a great question. So when it comes to the unexpended fund balance typically they're associated with capital projects. So a lot of times what we see is we see just unexpended funds at the end of the program year for a project that carries over multiple years. So everything that is in there The unexpended fund balance was associated with capital projects. And what happens at the end of each fiscal year, if we have any unexpended funds in administration, we will typically put that towards a capital project to also provide additional funding. So it's typically associated with multi-year capital projects.

It's difficult to know until late in the plan year how much they were able to expend, right? Correct. So, it's not like there's a lot of opportunity to reprogram if we wanted to.

Correct, typically a lot of times with construction it's just it takes time. It takes time to go through the design and takes time to go through construction and when you federalize a project it is federalized so we do try to target our resources on the projects that are federal I just

wanted

to commend

our grant

recipients and the city. These types of projects are exactly what the CDBG program is intended for, Thank you very much. As we know, we have so many housing challenges in our community. Helping people stay stable and not fall off the cliff into homelessness is so important. So just wanted to commend the grantees and the city and the Human Services Committee for work well done.

Any more questions from council? Seeing none, we'll go to the public. Do you have any questions?

Yes. Did you open the public hearing, Madam Mayor?

Excuse me?

Did you open the public

hearing? I'll open the public hearing. Maybe I did. I think I did but I'll open it again to be safe.

Thank you so much. I have no speaker slips. Those of you on the Zoom webinar who wish to speak to this item please use the raised hand icon and I will call on you. I'm seeing none, Mayor.

Okay thank you. Any more questions? Council Member Cariocco? No okay so I'm not seeing any more questions. I guess I'll close the public testimony and entertain a deliberation or motion. Is ready are you deliberating or do you want to Okay, if we're going to make a motion.

I'm

happy to try and also close the public

hearing. Let's see. I would move that we've reviewed and accepted the CDBG block grant 2025-2026 consolidated annual performance and evaluation report. And that we authorize staff to submit the consolidated annual performance and evaluation report to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, incorporating any public comments received and any other updates from the council.

Do I have a second? Seconded. Okay. Second by Kasdan. Okay, roll call vote.

Yes thank you Madam Mayor that will be Item C1 consider adoption of an interim urgency ordinance temporary prohibiting the establishment of new firearms and ammunition retailers within this city

Madam Mayor, I'm going to lead off on this one. Okay.

Please do.

So there is a report before the Council and this is following up on direction we received two weeks ago at the meeting of September 1st. You might recall the Council meeting of September 1st we held a study session on firearms retail firearm stores regulations within the city At that time the council provided staff a variety of direction and guidance to pursue making changes to certain codes, chapter 17, chapter 5. And to look at various things I won't go into those but towards the end of the study session the council also asked that staff return with a draft urgency ordinance So during the time that staff is working on the changes that council asked for, that we would put a pause on any new gun stores locating within the city limits.

So staff indicated I think at that time that we could come back in two weeks so here we are Back in two weeks was an urgency ordinance before you. It was also requested at that time that we ensure that the ordinance is drafted in such a way that it only applies to new gun stores. There are two gun stores currently located in the city, they're actually cited in the staff report, cited in the ordinance.

And if by chance any of those stores were going to move during this time, that would be allowed as long as they were to follow the normal process that exists now prior to the changes. So again, this urgency ordinance, the thought was needed to take a pause so that the regulations could be looked at, the work could be done. That might take a fair amount of time.

and the urgency ordinance is before you. It is an urgency ordinance, so it follows a different path than other ordinances. It does not require two readings. Noticing requirements are slightly different but it does require a four-fifths vote of the council and it would become effective immediately. It's for 45 days and to extend the ordinance we would have to come back within that 45-day period and recommend an extension if more time is needed.

So the ordinance, I think, speaks for itself. It does what I just summarized and what was asked by Council. There are various findings in there for the Council's consideration of why this urgency ordinance is urgent and why it's needed at this time.

Happy

to take any questions.

Do we have questions from Council? I think you answered all mine. My question was about the 45 days, can it be extended? So that's legally what we have to do,

correct? Correct, Mayor. And so as Mr. Nisbet mentioned, it would come back as a notice public hearing within the 45 day period and there would be an accompanying report and council would be asked at that time should they approve the urgency ordinance this evening to extend it in that extension under state law is for I believe 10 months and 15 days total. full amount of time that it could be extended.

And the reason for doing that is it gives us time to do a look at preparing another ordinance on buffers and and to get it right into do a thorough job of it and we're not rushed in.

Madam Mayor, that's absolutely correct and will start to put together some kind of a timeline of what we think it's going to take. We do imagine we'll be back before your council within that 45 days. I don't believe we can do all this work in 45 days, so we are anticipating that we will be before you within 45 days and maybe we'll have a better estimation at that point but as your city attorney said the law allows up to an extra 10 months plus for a full year total so we will look at that but as staff indicated at the study session There's spatial analysis that has to be done. We have to look at Chapter 17, we have to review the current regs, we have to go to Planning Commission. There are a number of steps that need to be done before we can bring back an ordinance for Council's consideration that meets the direction that we receive from Council.

Great, okay. Thank you. Questions? Council Member Kastin.

Not really a question. This is just this is a good discussion that you guys just had because we did have a comment from the public sort of concerned that there would be an indefinite period of time that this would just persist and so to that commenter you can see there's a limited period of time in which this is in place. So it's good that we

Any public speakers?

Yes Madam Mayor, thank you very much. I do have four speaker slips and one hand raised. Those of you on the Zoom webinar who wish to speak to this item please use a raised hand icon and i will call on you. Our first in-person speaker will be Sarah Penna followed by Lindsay Vining. And all speakers will have three minutes

Hi everyone, I'm sure you expected to see me tonight. I am a Goleta resident and volunteer with Moms Demand Action. I just wanted to be here tonight to voice my support on voting yes on this. Obviously have strong opinions about our children being exposed to guns and having them that close I really appreciate the urgency you are taking in this matter. Thank you very much.

Good evening, my name's Lindsay Vining. I live in Goleta. I'm a mom and teacher and I wanted to say thank you for taking this seriously and putting a pause so that you can come up with a thoughtful plan on how to move forward. And so because of that, I encourage you to vote yes on the moratorium and put in the care required to put something together that will work well for the city. Thank you.

Our next speaker is Dan Ashton, be followed by Ethan Whittle.

Good evening Madam Mayor and City Council. I have a couple of documents, can I submit these?

Yes, I'm happy to take them yes.

So what I went ahead and did is, I spent about 10 minutes obviously using AI. And I went ahead and threw a 600 foot and 1,000 foot buffer so you guys can kind of see what would happen if those proposed regulations take effect. This does not take into consideration if gun stores were allowed to be put into industrial zones, but it's pretty scary because you're taking 94% of the available commercial real estate away from firearm stores. So as I said in my last public comment this is a thinly veiled ban no matter how you guys look at it. 600 feet, 1,000 feet. It also pushes basically the only available retail for gun stores into city centers like Ralphs, shopping centers, et cetera which none of those will actually allow firearm retailers because of their lease agreements like Chase Bank, Trader Joe's, Ralphs, those types of places prevent certain businesses like smoke shops, firearm stores and other retailers from having a shared space with them.