Santa Barbara Talks: What to do on Santa Barbara's State Street? Ed Lenvik Talks Cars, Bikes, People
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- Architect Ed Lenvik talks the future of Santa Barbara' State Street and the promenade, including his views on cars, bikes, parklets, pedestrians whether to become "curbless." He also discusses retail, the "restaurant mafia," and his views on the the progress of the State Street Advisory Committee, a group he sits on. Lenvik, a member of the Historic Landmarks Commission, pulls no punches in his assessment of the city's progress on State Street over the past three years, while also showing a love for the city and a desire to make it better. This is a deep-dive into the state of State Street in Santa Barbara and what can be done to save.
Joshua Molina is a journalist and podcaster who hosts Santa Barbara's No. 1 Podcast, Santa Barbara Talks with Josh Molina. He creates compelling conversations about housing, education, business, culture and all of the issues that we share in this community. Consider a contribution by visiting www.santabarbaratalks.com and please subscribe to the Santa Barbara Talks UA-cam Channel.
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.
Open up state Street!!
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.