BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being here with us today. I'd like to go ahead and call to order this regular meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors on February 21st. Mr. Allen would you call the roll please?

Mr. Lavagnino? Here! Mr. Carbajal? Here. Ms. Wolfe? Here. Ms Gray? Present. Ms Farr?

Here Would you

Madam Chairman, we have one request to speak in public comment from Jeff Alexander.

Alright, Mr. Alexander

Good morning, Supervisors. Jeff Alexander from the Santa Barbara County Film Commission and I'm here today to give you a quick update on recent media production activity and trends here in Santa Barbara County. First, I recently finished a report on production for the California Film Commission And the results were very encouraging. In 2011, we saw a significant jump in activity in key areas of local production. In fact, we added a total of 119 days of production reporting 543 days as opposed to 424 in the previous year. We saw fewer feature film days but a major bump in commercial production which on average spends as much as or more than our typical feature film. Beyond our jump in production I'm also happy to report that the county community We are currently in discussions with the City of Builton as well.

I think that this is a strong signal that key stakeholders in the county support and welcome this business. The PR benefits of production continue On Sunday night we saw the 20th season premiere, I don't know if any of you caught this but I hope you did or part of it, of the hit reality show The Amazing Race. And of all the starting points in the world, all the possible places they could have begun, they chose San Ynez Valley.

Filming breathtaking sunny vistas and landscapes for their premier at the Bridalwood Winery, they captured 9.2 million viewers. Many of them out there shivering in the dead of winter, and I can guarantee you that it left a lot of people out there considering travel to sunny Santa Barbara. I can't even imagine what it would have cost us to reach 9.2 million television viewers. Finally, you should have received an invitation to our upcoming film production seminar on February 27th. I hope that you'll consider attending this event, which will feature a presentation by Amy Lemesh, the State Film Commissioner and also presentations by top producers and scouts on production, barriers of production, how do we bring more business here?

And some interesting presentations on issues around production. I'm here to tell you that this business is strong, it's getting stronger from 2008 till now. We've seen nothing but an upward climb and it's really great to have that business here. Just want to let you know. Thank you very much. Have a good day. Thank

you for that report Mr. Alexander. Thank you for being here. Before we leave public comment, we are honoring volunteers from our county family and we're doing this during public comment. And today I'd like to honor our volunteer Vivian Pisano-Smith who's a county employee and her father Alberto Pisano. Are they here? Not here? Vivian has worked in human resources since 1981. She's currently the business specialist for the Employees University, and until his retirement Alberto was the district manager for Southern California Edison.

Vivian and Alberto established the non-profit Flamenco Arts Festival in 1999. They, their volunteer board and advisory group have donated hundreds of hours to raise awareness of flamenco as a major component of America's rich and diverse cultural heritage. The festival, a Latino-conceived and organized event is designed to showcase world class flamenco artists and to broaden and deepen public knowledge and understanding of the performing arts through the medium of flamenco. It is also designed to diversify local performing art audiences by helping to create greater Latino interest in all cultural arts activities and conversely attract the diverse segments of the community to Latino events.

The Flamenco Arts Festival is committed to equal access to the arts and offers unique educational and community programs designed for children and adults, especially Latino children who are underserved or at risk through the Access To The Arts initiative. The Concerto Para Los Niños is one of many special events produced by the festival. This year's concerto will be held on April 21st. Children 12 and under can attend live performances by some of today's most prominent flamenco artists for free. Free dance workshops for children will be held the following day on April 22nd. Vivian is extremely proud of the festival and her pride of accomplishment is evident to anyone who talks to her about it. She and Alberto have found a way to bring flamenco to everyone who lives and visits Santa Barbara.

So this is again one way we want to thank and honor one of our county employees for all of the extra work that they spend making our community a better place to live for all of us outside of their business hours. Thank you to the Pisanos. All right, we will go ahead now and turn to our resolutions as part of our administrative agenda. I have the honor of presenting several of these, and the first one is a resolution of commendation honoring Joan Davidson for her service as a County Santa Barbara Arts Commissioner. Joan, why don't you come up? And John, anybody else?

Going to go ahead and have Mr. Allen read the resolution. I'm going to come down and present it to you, and then you'll certainly have an opportunity to make some comments.

Madam Chair, members of the Board. This is a resolution honoring Joan Davidson for her service as a County Arts Commissioner. Whereas the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission was founded in 1977 in order to support regional artists, promote regional cultural organizations and draw attention to Santa Barbara as a vibrant cultural destination and is a state and local partner of the California Arts Council. And whereas the commission makes recommendations to the board on cultural arts policy and promotes public art opportunities throughout Santa Barbara.

And whereas Joan Davidson, a long-time advocate in the Santa Barbara arts community was appointed to the commission in 1997 and served as chair three times starting in 1999. And whereas Joan has served on the Commission's County Art and Public Places Committee for more than a decade and was chair for an extended time. During her tenure at the commission and the CAPP committee Completed many significant percent for art projects, and raised the profile and expanded the number of public events in the Better Avia and Channing Peak Galleries. Joan played a significant role in updating the commission's public art inventory of works installed outside the galleries that helped develop a public art program at the Santa Barbara Airport Terminal.

And whereas, Joan also served as board member and as chair of Arts Outreach, a non-profit community arts organization serving the San Ynez and Los Alamos Valleys for several years. Now therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that this Board of Supervisors honors and commends Joan Davidson for her service, tireless dedication, and countless contributions to our community. Passing adopted today by the board.

Is this on? I haven't had a proclamation since my dad said it's a girl over 68 years ago. I'm honored to receive this and I thank you, I think that you know that I was only one of 15 arts commissioners were all passionate about the arts And our job was to make sure that arts came to the Santa Barbara County in many different ways. In the parks, in the schools, in your offices on your walls, in the galleries at the Channing Peak and if you look in the papers you see the Arts Commission everywhere we're like fleas on a dog and you can't get rid of us and you shouldn't I want to commend the staff of the Arts Commission.

Ginny Brush, the Executive Director. Rita Ferry, the Visual Arts Coordinator and Curator of Collections. And Linda Gardy, the Business Specialist. I think that's what she is now called because they are untiring in their work and they not only work for the county but also work for the city so you're getting double for your money when you have them. I want to thank my mother for being my mentor

Well, I came up to thank you for following in that footstep so well. Very few daughters follow in their mother's footsteps but I gather she thought I was good enough to follow. So I'm very proud of her.

And thank you and last but not least I want to thank my husband for his tireless work in supporting me and being at venues when I couldn't. John? He's taking a picture.

Madam Chair, Joan, I ran into you downstairs and you asked me what was going on today. And I said just another hearing. Anytime you're in the audience with your mother it's not just another hearing. Congratulations!

Next we have the honor of presenting a resolution of commendation to the City of Buelton for their 20th anniversary of incorporation. And I see the current mayor here, Holly Sierra. I see Councilmember Judith Dale. I'm not sure who all else from the City of Buelton is here? Mayor Pro Tem King. Please all of you come on up and anybody else that wants to from Buelton.

We've had a fun time this last year honoring the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Solvang and then last week, the 10th anniversary of the City of Goleta and now the 20th anniversary of Bealton. So thank you all for being here. Mr. Allen is going to read the resolution.

Madam Chair, members of the board. This is a resolution honoring the city of Buelton on its 20th anniversary of incorporation. Whereas on February 1st 1992, the first Buelton City Council was sworn in marking the community's long journey toward autonomy and self-determination by culminating in cityhood. And whereas over the past 20 years, Buelton has morphed from a crossroads into a thriving well managed city with community members active in policy and decision making And whereas, promises made and fulfilled by city leaders include bringing a large grocery store, pharmacy, parks and commercial redevelopment to Buelton.

And whereas the future of Buelton is bright with possibility including the revitalization of the Avenue of the Flags and the development of well-designed mixed use projects that bring economic opportunity. And whereas community residents, city staff and elected representatives have put countless hours into the future vision of Buelton and share the efforts to bring progress and prosperity to our region.

I would like to thank the Board of Supervisors for this honor. We are very proud that we've made it past our teenage years, that we've

gotten to 20 And we are looking forward to a very exciting 20 years coming on. A lot of, a lot of changes, a lot of participation from residents and we appreciate the honor. Thank you very much.

Another city I'm very proud to represent in my district. All right, next we want to honor Jeff Scoba of the California Highway Patrol. But we don't necessarily see him in the audience. Is Jeff here? Well why don't we go ahead to the next resolution and then we'll come back to that. And the next one is a Resolution of Accommodation honoring the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County for their outstanding service to the community.

I understand we have several people here that are going to accept, including former Judge DeCaro. Thank you for being here. Retired?

Madam Chair, now you know what judges do when they retire. It's

a good thing too. Everybody on up here? All right, Mr. Allen, why don't you go ahead and read the resolution.

Madam Chair, members of the board, this is a resolution honoring the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners for outstanding service. Whereas the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County Program have volunteered over 15,000 hours of science-based horticultural assistance to the gardening public in Santa Barbara County since 1990.

And whereas each master gardener of Santa Barbara County successfully completes a 50 hour training program followed by an annual commitment to 25 hours of volunteer work and 12 hours of continuing education. And whereas the Master Gardeners are certified, non-paid volunteers who provide assistance to the public by telephone at plant clinics and farmers markets and other venues with demonstrations, talks and workshops on sustainable landscape practices.

Public information resources offered by the Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County are science-based and include plant, pest, and problem identification, compost production, and cultural practices for growing vegetables, fruits, and ornamental plants. And whereas the Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County hosts approximately 10 public workshops annually on various sustainable and gardening topics of interest to the public and draws an average of 60 attendees from each public workshop.

And whereas, the Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County vowed to continue their volunteer education work in 2012 with 10 public workshops, advice table at the Saturday's Farmer's Market, Earth Day participation, butterfly garden education at several locations and helpline operation. Now therefore be it resolved that this Board of Supervisors honors the Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County for their continued dedication in advising, educating and assisting the public in our community on science-based sustainable landscape matters and practices. Passed and adopted today.

Thank you very much Chairman Farr and board members. We also want to thank Stephanie from Supervisor Farr's office and Mr. Allen for their help in preparing this resolution. I just helped run the paperwork for this program, and I want to turn it over to Leslie Wiscombe who is one of our volunteers because she's the one that along with the other Master Gardeners really does the work.

Good morning, Chairwoman Farr and esteemed supervisors. I'm one of 80 some odd volunteers and we all work pretty hard and we all do different things and we love what we do and we thank you so much for your support over the years. I am co-chair of the Public Education Committee for the Master Gardeners We have been really truly busy with our workshops and educating the public on sustainable gardening practices. And we have some pretty exciting workshops coming up, and I hope to see some of your faces there. We have one coming up this weekend for backyard citrus and a really good slate of things planned for public education. And thank you all very much for your support and it's a pleasure being here today. Thank you.

All right, I think I still don't see Captain Scoba here. Supervisor Wolfe? I think that there's going to be a luncheon in his honor and perhaps the resolution can be presented then but he's such an exceptional individual. I wondered whether you wanted to make a few comments anyway about why we would be honoring him. Thank you Madam Chair.

I would like to do that and then perhaps we can read the resolution into the record as well. Captain Scoba has been an integral part of public safety in our community. He's met numerous times with myself and community members or business members when there have been issues of traffic control on some of the highways, particularly in the Second District. Supervisor Farr and I are co-sponsoring this particular item because of Jeff Scoba's intense interest and leadership And results that have occurred on Highway 154.

He's done everything from grant writing, and those grants have been received by the county for increased enforcement. We've seen changes on Highway 154 as it relates to what types of trucks can traverse that area. I think in essence he has just been a huge supporter of this community You'll hear in the resolution that through his leadership, traffic fatalities have decreased by 85%. This man is astounding in the work that he does for the Highway Patrol and I'm confident that his successor will do an excellent job as well. I just know that it's been a terrific pleasure working

with him. Thank you Supervisor Wolff. And I just want to add that he is being promoted, but fortunately we're not going to lose him. He's still going to be representing this area and for that I'm very grateful. And also I want to say as we've talked about people in the community that are not only recognized for the work they do day-to-day but the extra work that they do out in our community, that if you haven't had the opportunity to hear Jeff sing, you've really missed something He's got, he plays guitar and he sings. And it's just amazing. So on top of the work that he does day to day for us as a captain in the California Highway Patrol, he makes himself available at various events including memorial services for fallen officers and participates in that way and sings.

And it's just so beautiful to hear him. So Mr. Allen why don't you go ahead and read the resolution and when we have the opportunity we will present it to him in person?

Madam Chair, members of the board. Resolution of commendation for Jeff Scoba for his service to the people of Santa Barbara County. Whereas Jeff Scoba as an officer of the California Highway Patrol began serving the people of the state of California in May 1985 and the people of Santa Barbara County in June 1986. And whereas in recognition of his excellent service and leadership skills In commitment to the people of California, Jeff Scoble was promoted throughout the CHP organization obtaining the rank of captain and becoming the commander of the Santa Barbara CHP area office. And whereas in his various leadership positions at the Santa Barbara CHP area office, Jeff has repeatedly shown dedication and faithfulness in working with local officials during emergencies and disasters in his daily commitment for our community's safety.

And whereas, Jeff has served Santa Barbara County in many programs including coordinating the CHP's integration into the Ivy Foot Patrol, working with the local wine tasting industry and the Santa Barbara County Vintners Association in the Taste Responsibly Designated Sober Driver campaign. Working with UCSB on decreasing impaired driving within a student population. Working to make Highway 154 safer and reducing pedestrian fatalities on Highway 101.

And whereas, since taking command of the Santa Barbara CHP Area Office, Jeff Scoba's tireless efforts to safety have helped reduce the fatality rate within his assigned area by 85%. And whereas, Jeff Scoba, receiver of two California Law Enforcement Challenge Awards for Overall Excellence has been further promoted to the rank of Assistant Chief of the CHP Coastal Division. Now, therefore be it hereby ordered and resolved that the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County recognizes and thanks Jeff Skoba for his tireless devotion to the people of the state of California and to the county of Santa Barbara. I pass and adopt it today.

Madam Chair, if I could just say, Jeff Scopa has never missed one meeting and I can only assume that the reason he's missing this is because he's out on the road doing something very important right now.

I totally agree with you. All right let's go to the administrative agenda items that were pulled. The first one was A-10 Supervisor Wolf and then we'll see whether there any... I'm sorry Mr. Allen you need to read that into the record?

Madam Chair, we have a request to speak on items A-10 and 11. Item A- 10 is from Planning and Development. It's to receive and file a board letter regarding the Bryce Beach Cabana and Fenuncular. And item A-11 from Planning and Development. Receive and file a board agenda letter regarding the Irene and Frances Rich Beach Cabana.

Thank you. Supervisor

Wolf, I think you pulled 810? I did Madam Chair. I just want to state briefly that I'm pulling this item so that we can have it set for hearing for the full board to hear the merits of this case on March 6th. It seems appropriate since the last time we heard this item at the Board of Supervisors level, we had specifically referred it back to HVAC. did respond so I think it's important for us to follow through on the process and hear this item at the full hearing.

Why don't we go ahead and hear from our public speaker and then you can make that motion?

Madam Chair, we have requests to speak on Item A11 but no requests to speak on Item

A10. So I'm going to make the motion Madam Chair that we set this item for hearing for March 6th.

All right, motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries all right that'll be continued to March 6th for a full hearing and now item A11 Mr. Allen oh you already read that didn't you okay Supervisor Levin you know I think you filled this one

Thank you, Madam Chair. Similarly to the last one I'd like to accept this for hearing March 6 based on what our HLAC vote was and just want to bring it back so that we can hear the merits of this before the full board.

Okay. Are public speakers then Mr. Allen?

Madam Chair, we have four requests to speak. We'll start in Santa Maria with Andy Caldwell to be followed by Julia Carr here in Santa Barbara.

Madam Chair, members of the board. I'm Andy Caldwell representing COLAB. It actually wanted to encourage the board to schedule both items A10 and A11. It's amazing to me as you know I've been coming to county meetings and some planning commission meetings for over 20 years. And I specifically remember A lemon packing shed. It was no more than a tin shed next to the railroad tracks and how there was a huge debate to make that some sort of historical landmark Which, you know, I found questionable because it was just literally a shed.

The Union Sugar where I used to work was the oldest sugar factory in the country and it got torn down with nary a peep. These particular Projects really are completely rich in history, not just for what they represented but the people that built them and the people that were involved in their creation. And I know in some ways there's some people that would like to ignore parts of the history of Santa Barbara because it's not politically correct anymore in some ways, shapes and forms. But the bottom line is both of these facilities were spectacular in their day and they represented as one person said the California dream.

And so we would hope that you would schedule them and approve them for what it's going to take to restore and preserve them. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Caldwell. Next speaker?

Our next speaker is Julia Carr to be followed by Lee Carr.

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, Supervisors. Lee and I want the Rich Cabana to go on to the March 6th meeting for final approval of a landmarking of the Rich Cabana. We have a lot of new information since the last time we saw you came before you and we want to share it And we would like to also, if possible, request time to be able to present our PowerPoint or at least part of it on the March 6th hearing because it was prepared by us for the HLAC and it helped us win our second and unprecedented unanimous nomination from the HLAC Commission.

They are your commission and they're the people you have appointed to give you their opinion Both your board, both you the board and the commission have asked us a lot of good questions. And we have been able to answer them. So thank you very much for your time and consideration. We hope to see you on the 6th.

Thank you. Our next speaker is Lee Carr followed by Chip Wolbrandt

I'm going to be extremely brief, given that Julia took care of what I wanted to say anyway. But a year ago we, or a little more than a year ago, we were before you about this land marking of the Irene and Francis Rich Cabana. Good questions were raised at that point in time. We've worked diligently for the last year to try to answer each of those questions. They would have to do with documentation of the history of the cabana, they had to do with alternatives that were available or could be available and in addition to that there was some issues about permitting that were discussed. We've gotten answers we believe through diligent work to address each of those. We welcome the opportunity to address those things on March 6th We would ask you to set it for March 6.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our

final speaker is Chip Wilbrandt. Madam Chair, I'll be even briefer and just thank you very much for pulling this off the administrative agenda recognizing that you have a full recommendation from unanimous HLAC for nomination and asking you to please take your time to have a full hearing on this item. Thank you very much.

Thank You Mr. Wilbrandt. All right we'll bring it back to the board Supervisor Wolfe. Thank

When this was heard before, we also had the recommendation from HLAC to move forward with a designation and the board at that time I believe the vote was 3-2 to deny what was if not an identical request from the same applicant. The applicants appeal that denial to Superior Court where it remains. I don't believe that it's appropriate that we move forward on setting this item for a hearing. This is different than the previous item, which I myself pulled for a hearing and so I would hope that the board holds to its statement that we made last year, that this would not move forward as a historic landmark designation. Thank you Madam Chair.

Thank you Supervisor Wolff. Counsel did you want to comment on the fact that if there's some ongoing litigation how that affects us?

I was not aware that there was still ongoing litigation on this item. I'm not really sure what the status is of that item.

I think Rachel's coming forward

Madam Chair and Supervisors, there is still current litigation on this item. And I believe that they haven't started the briefing stage so it's still in the early part of the litigation.

Okay, so does that affect our ability to go ahead and and discuss this matter.

Madam Chair, members of the board it's within your discretion to set this matter for hearing and that's separate from the litigation.

Thank you. I think Supervisor Lavinino then Supervisor Carbajal.

I wasn't here last year at this point when this item came up, and that's why I'd like to bring it forward. I think I'd like to hear the merits of the case, and I think we're always better off when we hear... If the vote turns out the way it does last time, that's fine. But I just want to hear it and see how it all plays out.

Supervisor Carbajal?

I'm just trying to wrap my hands around The outstanding litigation and our hearing this item. Certainly it's within our discretion, but I'm looking to our lawyers to give us some kind of sign language something that That gives me a little bit more insight because not being a lawyer, I'm trying to understand the implications. So to the extent that you can say something on the record that would help me understand the nexus implications thereof or otherwise, I would greatly appreciate it.

Madam Chair, Supervisor Carbajal, what's before your board is exactly the same issue that's in litigation. So when your board heard this item in a public hearing Believe it was over a year ago. The board decided to deny the historic landmark designation and what's happened is this is a new application for the exact same thing. So, but your board still has the discretion to in spite of the litigation on that item, your board still has the discretion to hear that item again and have a full hearing if that's the pleasure of the board.

Supervisor Carbone.

Thank you Madam Chair. I guess I would like to understand what kind of legal expenses, not that it's so much germane as have we been... What has this protracted legal circumstance? How has it impacted us in terms of County Council's time?

At this point, our effort in the litigation has been putting together the administrative record of your board's hearing. We don't have a cost estimate on that but it would have been probably several hours of work. We've not yet begun our formal briefing on this matter.

Thank you.

All right. Any other comments from the board on this? Supervisor Lavinuna.

Madam Chair, I'd like to make a motion that we set this for hearing for March 6th.

All right. Any discussion on the motion? Before we vote council have we ever done this before? Have we ever discussed a matter that was under litigation in open session like this?

Not that I'm aware of, but as Rachel indicated there this is a new application. So, is it possible that there could be some issues that overlap between a subsequent hearing and the matter pending in Superior Court? Assuming the issues are the same. Yes, there could be some overlap. What we're just trying to tell you is that your board is not precluded from hearing this item if that's your pleasure.

But does it materially create a risk to our litigation in Superior Court? That's really hard to say.

Okay, thank you. Supervisor Carbajal?

I think you helped me get to where I was interested in what are the financial implications for the county should we have... Should it go through to trial, what could be the financial exposure to the county or would it just be a matter of... Could there be a financial implication to the county?

Really, the expense would be the lawyer staff time in preparing and arguing the record. My understanding is it's proceeding under an administrative mandamus process. So yeah, it would just be attorney time. Thank you.

Supervisor Wolf. Thank you, Madam Chair. You know this is to me this is very simple I feel very strongly that first of all going back to the HLAC after we had already made our decision based on the information that was provided to us was an interesting way to kind of circumvent our decision, but certainly the applicants had the right to do that. And they have presented to us additional information which I've looked at, but I understand that we're not to get into the into the fine aspects of their proposal unless it was to go back to unless it was to go to the hearing March 6th. I feel very strongly that we not engage in this, that would let the process move forward as as we had decided before and and Let it play itself out if we talk about staff time and County Council time You know, we're going to we're going to be taking more time on an issue that like I said is already In the litigation process and I suggest we let it move forward in that arena And Supervisor Labagnino, I do appreciate your taking the interest in this.

I recognize that you weren't here last time but for the reasons that I stated, I think we should just hold the line at this point and call for the question unless you have comments, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Supervisor Wolff. All right. We'll go ahead and have a roll call vote on this Mr. Allen?

Mr. Labagnino? Mr Carbajal? Ms. Wolff? Ms Gray? Ms Farr?

All right, that completes our administrative agenda and we will go ahead and continue to our departmental agenda. The first item is looking at the Goleta Valley Community Plan. For those of you who have not participated in a hearing here at the Board of Supervisors I just wanted to lay out how Hearing is going to proceed and a few of the ground rules. First of all, if you have cell phone would you please turn it off or turn it to silent? We don't allow booing or clapping.

If somebody says something that you really like you can go ahead and wave your hand in the air like that. Depending on how many speaker slips we have, people will be given up to three minutes to speak. If somebody has something that they can say in one minute, we will go ahead and take you first and come around over here and stand on the side. And so first of all, we will read the item into the record and Supervisor Wolf whose district this is in and who we will look to as our lead on it. We'll make some introductory comments then staff will make a presentation there will be questions from the board then there will be public comment and then we will bring it back to the board for deliberations and a possible motion So Mr. Allen, why don't you go ahead and read this into the record?

Madam Chair, members of the board. Item number one is from Planning and Development. It's a hearing to adopt a resolution to initiate environmental review for the draft Goleta Valley Community Plan for the Eastern Goleta Valley.

Thank you. And good morning to our staff who is here. Presentation, Mr. Hunt. Oh I'm sorry, Supervisor Wolf wants to make a few comments first.

Thank you Madam Chair and thank you all of you for being here this morning. And I'm sure there's quite a few who may be home and listening to this or at work My office and I think the other supervisors have received numerous emails from many, if not all of you. So we appreciate that input. It's actually hard for me to believe that this day has finally arrived for my colleagues on the board and members of the public to be able to hear about and move forward today on the initiation of environmental review of the Eastern Goleta Valley Community Plan.

It is safe to say for at least The past six years, even before I ran for supervisor, the Eastern Goleta Valley Community Plan Update has been at the forefront of thoughts and discussion within the unincorporated area of the 2nd District. And there's a reason for that. If you look at the county district maps it's easy to see that the second district is geographically the smallest of the five districts It's actually very tiny when compared to the other districts.

The unincorporated eastern Goleta Valley has approximately 36,000 residents, one of the largest unincorporated population centers in the county. And within the more urbanized area, the land mass is approximately 7900 acres or 12 square miles. The beautiful and unique eastern Goleta Valley is geographically situated between the mountains and Pacific Ocean and bordered by two cities.

For these reasons, land use and planning and the impacts of growth are understandably at the forefront of consciousness and concerns among residents. And therefore the process to arrive at this draft plan has not been quick or easy and frequently frustrating. But in the end, I believe that the process has been fair and it has resulted in a draft plan which is an excellent framework for setting the stage for robust environmental review process.

Before we move on, if you look in the draft community plan book there is an acknowledgment and I want to publicly thank the folks who worked on the Goleta Valley Community Plan PAC. And those members are Valerie Olson, Kinan Inzel, Tom Elliott, Bonnie Freeman, Kim Minow, Kim True, and Ted Adams. Our true representatives of our community representing different geographical locations in the community and coming to the plan from different perspectives. So I want to publicly thank them right now, and to my colleagues on the board I don't know if you watched the Planning Commission hearings, but the planning commissioners did an outstanding job in listening to the concerns of the public trying to reconcile staff's issues, GBPAC issues, community issues.

They were all exceptional. And I want to call them out by name too. Michael Cooney, Merrill Brooks, Joe Valencia and Dan Blau. And of course our Second District Planning Commissioner Cecilia Brown who's in the audience today who I know many of you have met. Every time I see Cecilia I thank her but sometimes I know that words are not enough to really express the appreciation that I have for her work Her diligence, her...

Cecilia you are outstanding and I am so lucky and I think the community is lucky to have you as our representative. And then finally to our staff, our folks down here Jeff Hunt, Glenn Russell and particularly Erica who has some by some people been named the Galita gal she's done a terrific job and they have worked closely Maybe this is the frustrating part that I referenced earlier, but I think again we have come to a place and a plan that is one that is workable.

And I'd now like to turn the presentation over to our planning staff and they will go through a PowerPoint After your presentation, I do have one additional modification that I would like to make. But we can talk about that later. So without any further delay, we'll get going on

your presentation. Actually, Supervisor Wolf before Mr. Hunt starts. Council, do we need to do ex parte on this particular matter?

No, we don't believe so. OK. You always can do ex parte But I don't believe you'd be required to. I don't believe this is a quasi-judicial proceeding.

Okay, thank you. All right, Mr. Hunt?

Good morning, Chair and Supervisors. I'm Jeff Hunt, Director of Long Range Planning. With me this morning is Glenn Russell, the Director of Planning and Development, and Erica Leachman, the Project Manager. The Draft Goleta Plan represents a balance By providing for housing and economic development while preserving community character. The plan would also bring a number of other benefits to the community, as Erica will now mention in her staff presentation.

Thank you Mr. Hunt Good morning, Honorable Supervisors. Thank you for the opportunity to present recommendations for the Goleta Community Plan Update Project. The objective of this project is to evaluate and update the goals, policies, development standards and action items for the 1993 Goleta Community Plan exclusively for the Eastern Goleta Valley. The project includes the updated draft community plan, updated land use and zoning maps, and Land Use Development Code and Coastal Zoning Ordinance amendments.