Thank you, Josh and Ed, for a very honest and realistic look at the challenges, past and future for our lovely State Street corridor. I very much enjoyed your thoughts and so appreciate your time and service to our special community.
Ed is one of the best on the HLC. Love him talking about the drainage on State street if it's "flat & flexible." I've been on downtown streets many times in the rain, the curbs are there so businesses and homes don't flood! And what he said about cruise ships is so true. The ships are here for daylight hours and are gone, and they charge $10 per passenger that goes to the Waterfront department, not the general fund. How short sighted the city council is to refuse this?!!
Thank you for doing this program and for addressing this issue. It is of great interest to me. You talked about climate change and getting people out of cars. I think The city is going to do a good job of keeping cars away by raising their parking prices to high levels. But I don't think people will be walking downtown. They just won't come. Another thing is that cars don't want to divert to chapala or anacapa because the roads are terrible. They need to fix those roads, smooth out the potholes and make it appealing to even drive on those streets if we are going to keep State Street closed to cars. One more thing, if you want a promenade that's appealing to shopping as a pedestrian, you have to put the promenade on a more narrow street like the ones they have in Europe. State Street is just too wide to fulfill that purpose.
Every time I listen to one of Josh's podcasts, I marvel at how well he treats his guests. I found Lenvik to be very rational and caring even though I didn't agree with all of his views. How come we all can't have exchanges like this where we can learn from our neighbors even when we might disagree with them? I hope I use my own retirement years as well as Ed Lenvik is using his.
@@santabarbaratalkswithJosh the sfdrb shouldn't exist period. This city has no respect for private property. He's of the school of thought of centralized planning and control that adds to the cost of housing and doing business in this town
@@santabarbaratalkswithJosh and of course I watched it Josh. Yes he means well, but the mother may I shit in this town has fine way too far and it's hurting the writing class so we can all have cute red tile roofs
Thank you, Josh and Ed, for a very honest and realistic look at the challenges, past and future for our lovely State Street corridor. I very much enjoyed your thoughts and so appreciate your time and service to our special community.
Ed is one of the best on the HLC. Love him talking about the drainage on State street if it's "flat & flexible." I've been on downtown streets many times in the rain, the curbs are there so businesses and homes don't flood! And what he said about cruise ships is so true. The ships are here for daylight hours and are gone, and they charge $10 per passenger that goes to the Waterfront department, not the general fund. How short sighted the city council is to refuse this?!!
Thank you for doing this program and for addressing this issue. It is of great interest to me. You talked about climate change and getting people out of cars. I think The city is going to do a good job of keeping cars away by raising their parking prices to high levels. But I don't think people will be walking downtown. They just won't come. Another thing is that cars don't want to divert to chapala or anacapa because the roads are terrible. They need to fix those roads, smooth out the potholes and make it appealing to even drive on those streets if we are going to keep State Street closed to cars. One more thing, if you want a promenade that's appealing to shopping as a pedestrian, you have to put the promenade on a more narrow street like the ones they have in Europe. State Street is just too wide to fulfill that purpose.
Every time I listen to one of Josh's podcasts, I marvel at how well he treats his guests. I found Lenvik to be very rational and caring even though I didn't agree with all of his views. How come we all can't have exchanges like this where we can learn from our neighbors even when we might disagree with them? I hope I use my own retirement years as well as Ed Lenvik is using his.
SB is a giant HOA cause of the efforts of guys like this. Glad it looks great....as it continues to be less a less affordable
Did you watch it? He did not come across to me as you described. He seemed more upset about the process.
@@santabarbaratalkswithJosh the sfdrb shouldn't exist period. This city has no respect for private property. He's of the school of thought of centralized planning and control that adds to the cost of housing and doing business in this town
@@santabarbaratalkswithJosh and of course I watched it Josh. Yes he means well, but the mother may I shit in this town has fine way too far and it's hurting the writing class so we can all have cute red tile roofs
He's on HLC, btw, not SFDRB.
@@cmetzenberg I can't bake meads nor hails of your comment. . . and I'm the guy that said your post on another site was weetahded.
Open up state Street!!