SB Permitting

State laws are opening up housing development, and SB1123 is one of the latest ones signed into effect. It turns subdivision into a streamlined process for vacant single family lots, applying to properties less than 1.5 acres. Developers North and South of Santa Barbara are already using this new law to turn one property into ten. It’s a significant change to how single family properties function and are evaluated, and many hope this will help move the needle in the housing crisis.

Density Bonus Laws = Bypass Zoning Requirements. There are so many new state laws actively being approved that affect development here in Santa Barbara, and this is just one of them. I should also mention Builders Remedies, which is more relevant to the apartments behind the Mission, and the 18 story Carpinteria apartments. Comment what you want to see next, and I’ll do a deep dive.

A little about who we are…

A 6.3 earthquake ruined most of downtown SB in 1925, though over the next decade, the city was rebuilt and reinvented itself in the process. Out of the rubble came a new Santa Barbara with the headline, “Spanish Architecture to Rise from Ruins.”