May 2007 - Bike Santa Barbara County

www.sbbike.org
Serving Santa Barbara
County
We’re a countywide advocacy
and resource organization that
promotes bicycling for safe
transportation and recreation.
How to reach us
Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition
PO Box 92047
Santa Barbara CA 93190-2047
phone 962-1479
email info@sbbike.org
web www.sbbike.org
May 1st meeting
Join us on the first Tuesday of
the month for our general
meeting:
Tuesday, May 1st
Santa Barbara Bank & Trust
Conference Room
1021 Anacapa Street
Santa Barbara
12:00 noon Meeting
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forum where you can post and
read messages that pertain to
regional bicycling issues. It’s
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Join our Coalition
You can help improve bicycling
safety and conditions in Santa
Barbara County by joining
others in our own regional
Bicycle Coalition advocacy
group. Together we will
continue to make a real
difference. See page 6 for your
application options.
Our CycleSmart
program
The Santa Barbara Bicycle
Coalition’s CycleSmart bicyclist
education program offers
bicycling skills classes for
school children and adults.
Look for details of upcoming
classes inside Quick Release,
or contact our Co-coordinators
Dru van Hengel and Erika
Lindemann by email
CycleSmart@sbbike.org .
May 2007
Coalition stokes Bike Week activities
Bicycling is burgeoning and we’re pedaling to make it bigger and better.
Our Bicycle Coalition’s Bike Week of activities continues traditional
events, and adds new ones this year. The calendar is still being finalized,
so check our web site www.sbbike.org/BW/bw.html for full event details and
the latest information. To date, these Bike Week events are featured:
Bike Week Celebration. An evening at the Chase Palm Park Center. Invitations have gone to our members, others can buy tickets via our website.
Bicycle Repair Workshop. This is another community get together for
bike repair, skill sharing, construction and company. La Casa de la Raza.
Bike Clinic. This covers basic bicycle maintenance. Open Air Bicycles.
Bike Film Festival I. This evening
BIKE WEEK 2007 SCHEDULE
features Contested Streets and
Saturday May 12
short bike films. SB Public Library.
Bike Week Celebration
Bike to School Day. Events are arSunday May 13
ranged at individual schools in Solvang and the South Coast
Bicycle Repair Workshop
Bike Film Festival II. This evening will feature Pedal and short
Bike Clinic
bike films. UCSB Marine Science Building auditorium.
Bike to Work Day. Two locations—Downtown Santa Barbara and
Monday May 14
UCSB—will host traditional morning events.
Bike Film Festival I
Ride of Silence. This slow ride commemorates those lost or inTuesday May 15
jured in bicycling crashes. SB Museum of Natural History.
Bike to School Day
Willie Weir Bikes around South Africa. Hear Willie’s tales of cyBike Film Festival II
cling in Africa. SB Museum of Natural History.
Wednesday May 16
Climb Old San Marcos. This climb up Old San Marcos Road will
Bike to Work Day
help get you in shape. Meet at Tuckers Grove County Park.
Ride of Silence
How to Plan a Cycling Adventure. An introduction to bike tourWillie Weir Bikes around S. Africa
ing for the El Capitan bike trip. SB Museum of Natural History.
Thursday May 17
Bicycle Touring. Be treated to tales of joys and challenges of bikClimb Old San Marcos
ing in foreign countries. SB Museum of Natural History.
Plan a Cycling Adventure
Children’s Festival. We’ll help children learn how to safely walk
Bicycle Touring
and bike to school and other destinations. Alameda Park.
Saturday May 19
Cycling Adventure to El Capitan. Bike along with others from
Children’s Festival
Santa Barbara to El Capitan State Park. Camp overnight. Learn
Cycling Adventure to El Capitan
about it at the 5/17 meeting at the Museum of Natural History.
Grand opening of Bikestation Santa Barbara May 1st
It’s been a few years from concept to reality, but
Santa Barbara County’s first Bikestation will have
its grand opening on May 1. Built as a mitigation
for increased motor vehicle traffic at the Granada
Garage in Downtown Santa Barbara, our Bikestation
will offer bicyclists secure bike parking, showers,
bathrooms, retail items, and lockers.
The new facility is at 1219 Anacapa Street, inside
the Granada Garage, next to the Coffee Cat. On May
1, it will open from 7:00-9:00 AM for cyclists to
tour. Then the ribbon-cutting ceremony will begin
at 9:00 AM. Phone 562-733-0106 for local information, and check out the Bikestation Coalition’s five This is an architectural rendering of Bikestation Santa
other locations at its website www.bikestation.org.
Barbara, located on the first floor facing Anacapa Street.
Coalition supports
Nava’s bike bill
Our Assemblyman Pedro Nava is sponsoring the Bicyclists Safety Bill AB 60 that will
make bicycling safer for us when sharing
roads with motorists. The catalyst for the
bill was the death of Kendra Payne in January 2006 when the popular UCSB student
was hit and killed by a truck driver. AB 60
would require a three-foot safety clearance
when motorists pass bicyclists on streets
and roads.
Last month, our Bicycle Coalition sent a
letter of support to Nava. We wrote, “other
states continue to debate and pass similar
safety measures—so far Florida, Arizona,
Oklahoma, Minnesota, Oregon, Utah and
Wisconsin have enacted similar legislation,
and Tennessee is currently considering it.
It’s time that California catches up.”
The law would likely come into play when
a cyclist is struck or brushed by a motorist.
The three-foot requirement would then create a more-substantial case for the cyclist.
Our letter concluded, “We are appreciative that you are offering AB 60 that will
make safety on our roads a priority and will
help in future situations.”
SB Wine Country Cycling Tours pedal ahead
Avid bicyclist and businessman Corey Anderson
stands tall in his Santa Ynez touring shop.
It’s not all cycling for participants of the SBWCCT
rides, as they relax for an al fresco lunch.
The company name “Santa Barbara Wine Country Cycling Tours” doesn’t exactly roll off the
tongue, but it aptly describes what the new regional business is doing. And doing successfully, as it soon begins its third year of activity.
Owners Corey Anderson and Tim Gorham observed that more cyclists were coming to
the Santa Ynez Valley to ride. They came not only for major rides like the Solvang Century,
but also as individuals intrigued by the film Sideways and as members of professional cycling teams there for early spring training.
With their lifetime contacts and intimate knowledge of local possibilities, Anderson and
Gorham quietly started in 2005 and have been growing ever since. Anderson is the bike expert and owner of Dr. J’s Bicycle Shop in Buellton. Gorham is a local wine connoisseur and
a former leader of European cycling tours.
Their tours are typically half-day or full-day trips around the Valley. They end at one
winery or another for a gourmet meal. They are finding that past customers are increasingly returning for more, often with family or friends. Most of the cyclists are new to the
area, and invariably love it. A group of Persian cyclists from Los Angeles recently spent several days on rides out of their Solvang hotel, sometimes with return van support.
Their business headquarters in Santa Ynez serves as bike storage and as a modest bike
shop for locals. They also offer bicycle rentals to anybody independent of any tours—road,
mountain, hybrid, and tandems are available.
Our Bicycle Coalition is pleased that their home-grown bike touring business is succeeding. Anderson tells us that a good number of referrals to their website come from ours. To
learn more, check out www.winecountrycycling.com.
Leno’s Complete Streets bill advances
Assemblyman Mark Leno’s bill proposes to
require California jurisdictions to consider
accommodating all people traveling on public right-of-ways when General Plans are revised. The bill, designated AB 1358, passed
the Assembly Local Government Committee
on April 18, and is now going to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
Our Bicycle Coalition sent a letter of support to Leno on April 3. We said, “Safety is
a major concern for our vulnerable community members who bicycle, walk, and use
transit. ‘Unsafe conditions’ are most often
cited as the reason to drive instead.”
We continued, “AB 1358 will provide
roads that serve all users. It will level the
playing field of transportation choice that
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currently is stacked in favor of motorists,
and is stacked against an active lifestyle.”
A related publication is available from
the Thunderhead Alliance, a national organization of bicycling advocacy groups of
which our SB Bicycle Coalition is a charter
member. It’s the Guide to Complete Streets
Campaigns that describes not only what
complete streets are, but documents successful and upcoming efforts to implement
them. It cites the City of Santa Barbara’s
Circulation Element as an example of good
policy.
If you wish to know more about this national movement and the Thunderhead Alliance, read about them on their website
www.thunderheadalliance.org.
Help us plan a better
Santa Barbara
Giving Measure D
another try in 2008
Coalition buys
helmets for kids
Come to our May 1st Bicycle Coalition meeting to hear George Haskell from the City of
Santa Barbara talk about “Plan Santa Barbara.” It’s a two-year series of community
events, presentations and workshops to determine what we want our city to be like in
the future. Like how much growth? What
kind of transportation? How can we reduce
our environmental impact?
Public workshops are coming in June, but
this will get us thinking of how we can encourage healthy lifestyles and responsible
mobility. You can read more at the city’s
new website www.youplansb.org.
Even before Santa Barbara voters defeated
the renewal of our current Measure D transportation last November, jurisdictions within
our county were quite concerned about
their loss of funds in 2010. After all, about
a third, maybe half of their public works
budget used to maintain and create new
roads, sidewalks, and other transportation
facilities comes from Measure D revenue.
The money from the tax essentially replaced what used to come down from the
state level, but with a perpetual fiscal shortfall in Sacramento, that money was no
longer flowing. So one county after another
in California passed replacement taxes to
serve their needs.
At the same time, transportation funds
from the federal government and last fall’s
California bond measures increasingly require a local matching amount. Those jurisdictions that offer their own “self help”
matching funds now rise to the top of priority rankings for funding. With no more Measure D, we lose not only the money to
spend on local projects, but also the ability
of leverage it to bring in outside funds.
The current thought is tending toward
having two independent expenditure plans,
one for the north county, another for the
south county. Tax money from one area
would stay in that area. It would also try for
a continued half-cent tax instead of increasing it to three-quarters percent.
So we’re watching what happens at
SBCAG itself, as well as the two regional
subcommittees. A new Measure D renewal
proposal will very likely be crafted in the
next few months.
Safety for kids on bicycles is very important
to us, so our Board of Directors voted to
purchase helmets for students at Brandon
Elementary School in Santa Barbara.
The opportunity to help occurred because of a budget crunch at Kiwanis, the local organization that has been able to
generously help in the past. Rather than
have the March 22nd bike helmet distribution cancelled, our Bicycle Coalition donated
money to purchase helmets for distribution
to Brandon students there.
Brandon School just this year initiated an
ambitious walk/bike to school program
called Bike on Wednesday/Walk on Wednesday or "BOW-WOW.” We wish them great success and are glad that we could help.
Isla Vista races bring
out local community
A member of the CHP bicycle police leads kids
through a bike course on Pardall Road.
With support from businesses and government agencies, the UCSB Cycling Team
brought a day of activities to downtown Isla
Vista on April 7. We had an information
booth on closed-off Pardall Road, while collegiate and public races circled a closed IV
loop. A “Cruiser Crit” was open to all, including County Supervisors Janet Wolf and
Brooks Firestone. Overall, it was a fine day.
Cyclists race around a tight turn, the site of
crashes—none serious—in later races.
Returning this June
Two items of interest to bicyclists will be
returning to us this June:
Team Bike Challenge. Back for the third
year, this month-long bicycle competition
pits teams of five individuals against one
another as they track their bike trips and
win prizes. Gather team members and
register at www.teambikechallenge.com.
Bicyclist Count. We used to do this every
year, but numbers were not changing
much, so now it’s every other year,
including 2007. It’s an afternoon tally of
bicyclists at 25 Santa Barbara City intersections. We need volunteers to help for 2hour stints June 5-14; details coming at
meetings, by email and in Quick Release..
Low-rider bike club
engages members
Some of the Santa Barbara Don Riders showcase
their finely-crafted creations on March 13th.
Santa Barbara High School has a new club,
one that has been attracting members who
are not inclined to join clubs at school. Developed by Pedro Menchaca, the school’s
intervention instructor, this club of 13
members provides help to students wanting
to craft personalized, low-rider bicycles.
The Santa Barbara Don Riders, as they
call themselves, exhibited their impressive
bikes at a club fund-raiser on March 13.
Glistening with chromed parts, their handsome bikes (or trikes) were low-slung, with
cushy tires, double the usual number of radial spokes, and sometimes built around
vintage Schwinn frames. The bikes are all
rideable—at a respectable pace, of course.
We’re pleased that our young community
members have a new-found enthusiasm for
bicycles and what they can do for us all.
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April Bicycle Coalition
meeting topics
Our April 3rd monthly Bicycle Coalition
meeting was another evening one at Madam
Lu Chinese Restaurant. Nine people attended to dine and discuss these topics:
Ralph Fertig described his educational
experience at the National Bike Summit in
Washington DC.
Possibilities for attracting the Amgen Tour
of California to repeat locations in our
county were discussed.
Ralph Fertig described upcoming Earth Day
activities, with our information booth, bike
parking and free check-ups.
Our booth at UCSB Cycling’s Island View
Classic bike races in Isla Vista was described.
Ed France described the success of Bici
Centro’s first workshop at Casa de la Raza
in Santa Barbara. At least 30 people showed
up to work on their bikes..
The Bikestation Santa Barbara will have a
grand opening on May 1st.
Boy Scout Alex Wolff is planning an
educational morning for kids on bikes, as
his Eagle Scout project. We will be participating with an information booth.
The possibility of a trial of Ernesto Botello
over the death of bicyclist Jake Boysel was
described.
Bike Week events are coming. We have
added bike films, a Ride of Silence, and
overnight bike tour to El Capitan State Beach.
The week is overflowing with bike things.
We thank our active
members
Please thank and support the following Bicycle Coalition business members:
Bicycle Bob’s, Santa Barbara
Nett & Champion Insurance Services,
Santa Barbara
Open Air Bicycles, Santa Barbara
Pedal Power Bicycles, Santa Maria
Santa Barbara Electric Bicycle Company,
Santa Barbara
Chris King Precision Components,
Portland OR
Run Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
In addition, we welcome new members
Dave Everett and Adam Lowenstein. We
further thank those who renewed their
memberships: Eric Schwartz, Bob Swinney,
Cheryl Everett, Caroline Tesiorowski, Kim
& Peter Shingle, Bill Powell, Greg Janee,
Nicola Gordon, Don Irby, Michael Kwan, J
R Clinton, Ralph & Vicki Kornahrens, and
Howard Howe.
Quick Release ~ May 2007 ~ Page 4
“Bike-friendly” B&Bs increase in county
Garden Inn by the
Bicyclists are increasBeach (Carpinteria).
ingly being encourThe Ballard Inn, as
aged to come to Santa
an example, offers
Barbara County. In
covered bike parking
spring 2006, there
outside or room bike
were three bed and
parking in designated
breakfast inns in our
places, plus free bike
county that were recmaps. They were
ognized as “bike
pleased with the
friendly.” Now, a year
Amgen Tour of Calilater the California Asfornia time trial out
sociation of Bed and
of Solvang because
Breakfast Inns recogthey filled up with
nizes eight of them.
The Ballard Inn is a charming bike-friendly place
cycling fans and the
A year ago, the
quietly tucked away in the Santa Ynez Valley.
racers passed a half
bike-friendly inns
block from their front veranda.
were the Solvang Gardens Lodge (Solvang),
If you’re planning to travel with your
Cheshire Cat Inn & Cottages, and the Old
bike in our state, you can sort for bikeYacht Inn (both Santa Barbara). The five new
friendly inns for selected regions in the
ones are Ballard Inn (Ballard); Meadowlark
state at the California bed and breakfast
Inn and Storybook Inn (Solvang); Simpson
inn website www.cabbi.com.
House Inn (Santa Barbara); and Prufrock’s
Upcoming bike meetings and events
Bicycling is booming, there are more events
and meetings than ever, and many are not
announced much beforehand. So check our
website for updates www.sbbike.org/meet.html.
May 1, Bikestation Santa Barbara Grand
Opening, sponsored by the Bikestation Coalition. It’s finally going to open! See story on
page 1. 1219 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara.
May 1, Bicycle Coalition General Meeting,
sponsored by our Bicycle Coalition. Meeting
at noon, first Tuesday of the month. Community Room at the Santa Barbara Bank and
Trust building, 1021 Anacapa Street, Santa
Barbara. Phone president Ralph Fertig, 9621479 or email him at sb-ralph@cox.net.
May 2, Front Country Trails Task Force
Meeting, sponsored by the City and County
of Santa Barbara, and the Forest Service. This
meeting will deal with trail issues. Santa Barbara City Hall, Council Chambers, 735
Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, 5:30 PM.
May 12, Rotary Wine Country Ride, sponsored by Rotary Clubs of the Santa Ynez Valley and the MS Society. Starting at Mission
Santa Ines in Solvang, you can choose from
11, 25, 62, and 100-mile rides. Breakfast
food, sag stops, end with food and live entertainment. Details http://solvangrotary.com.
May 13 Bicycle Repair Workshop, sponsored by Santa Barbara BiciCentro. This is
the third month of biker get together for
bike repair, construction, help, and great
company. 12:00 noon-5:00 PM, La Casa de
la Raza, 601 East Montecito Street, Santa
Barbara. Details from Ed France, 310-9360857 or edfrance@gmail.com.
May 12-22, Bike Week 2007, sponsored by
our Bicycle Coalition. A whole week of bikerelated events will keep you charged up.
Read about it on page 1, and on our
website www.sbbike.org/BW/bw.html.
May 25, Santa Barbara Critical Mass Ride,
unsponsored. There have been all kinds of
Critical Mass bike rides around the world,
ranging from fun, law-abiding group rides
to lawless in-your-face protests that involve
violence and arrests. Santa Barbara’s rides
are the former. Alameda Park, Santa Barbara, 5:00 PM.
May 26 , Work on Arroyo Burro backside
Trail, sponsored by the Santa Barbara
Mountain Bike Trail Volunteers. The
monthly trail maintenance effort helps all
users. To sign up or get details, phone 6377350, email pherning@cox.net.
May 27, Bike Clinic, sponsored by Open Air
Bicycles. This Bike Week clinic covers bicycle maintenance basics to give you confidence to make repairs yourself. Open Air
Bicycles, 224 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara,
8:30-10:00 AM. Phone 962-7000, or email
info@openairbicycles.com for details.
Willie returns to SB
BiciCentro bike repair event cements success
Shall we bring Willie Weir back for our Bike
Week? The response at a Bicycle Coalition
Board meeting last fall was a resounding
“YES.” Willie agreed to again share his tales
of biking around the globe. “Your bicycle is
your passport. Don’t leave home without it,”
he proclaims.
by Edward France
the extensive La
Sunday, March
Casa network in
15th at La Casa
outreach, the colDe La Raza a seclaboration of
ond bike repair/
BiciCentro has
work party helped
been able to effecthirty people fix
tively put together
ailing bicycles and
cyclists who rely
get a taste of bion bikes for work
cycle culture. This
commutes and
community servolunteer bicycle
vice of La Casa
enthusiasts/meand the fledgling
chanics to create a
BiciCentro group
special opportuhelped connect
nity for our comdonated bikes to
munity.
Santa Barbara bicyclists arrive with their bikes to
those in need,
Our next event
participate in the March 15th BiciCentro community event.
used parts to othis Sunday, May
erwise broken bikes, and repair/mainte13th from 12:00 noon to 5:00 PM, but there
nance skills to the people who rely on bicyis much more in store than just another recling for transportation. After two events,
pair/work party. Our wrenches and enthusiword is starting to spread, and old bicycles
asts are putting together plans for a
long left in garages and backyards are getpermanent space for BiciCentro, a “bicycle
ting dusted off for a second life of use.
kitchen” of sorts, where students and comMore than ten mechanically-skilled volmunity members can come and fix donated
unteers, or “wrenches” are now regularly
bicycles, learn mechanical skills, repair their
donating their time to help others fix their
own bikes, and increasingly foster a stronmeans of mobility, while others, such as
ger bicycle culture in Santa Barbara.
Café de Velo, Echelon Santa Barbara Cycling
We hope to continue to build on our sucClub, Hazard’s Cyclesport, and Open Air Bicesses and ramp up the services our group
cycles, have all helped stock the events with can offer. We meet every Wednesday at 7:00
replacement parts.
PM at La Casa De La Raza. Contributions of
La Casa De La Raza, the primary sponsor
any nature; event volunteers, organizers,
of these events, deserves tremendous
networking, and financial sponsorship are
thanks for their work in helping add this
all needed as we build a space for the selfservice to the extensive list of resources it
determination of the bicycle to flourish.
offers to its primarily Latino constituency.
Eddie Gonzalez, Facility Manager of La
Untrammeled womanhood
Casa, immediately took action when first
“Bicycling has done more to emancipate
presented with the concept of community
women than any one thing in the world. It
gives her a feeling of self-reliance and
free bicycle repair events. “Let’s set a date,
independence the moment she takes her
put together the resources, and make this
seat; and away she goes, the picture of
happen” was his directive, and the commituntrammeled womanhood.”
ment of La Casa put this idea into motion.
— Susan B. Anthony
By using this superb facility and using
Girls marching in Cuba. Photo by Willie Weir.
Although there may be more, we’ll share
Willie’s enthusiasm for bike touring here:
May 12, Fourth Annual Bike Week
Celebration. Willie is bringing us his tales
of adventure in Cuba, the forbidden island
of sugarcane, cigars and socialism. Our Bike
Week kick-off event returns to the Chase
Palm Park Center in Santa Barbara. It starts
with drinks on the patio, followed by a
catered dinner, bicycling awards, and then
Willie on Cuba. All for $30.
May 16, Willie Weir Bikes around South
Africa. Willie pedaled in post-apartheid
South Africa months after Nelson Mandela
had been elected president. Eager to travel
in the homelands of the Zulu, Xhosa and
other tribes, he faced a daunting obstacle ...
people warned him of grave consequences.
At the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History, at 7:00 PM, $10 donation.
Learn more about Willie Weir at his website
www.willieweir.com. And find details about
these and all the other great Bike Week
events at www.sbbike.org/BW/bw.html.
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Regional bicycle clubs & groups
Road repair contacts
President, Ralph Fertig, 962-1479
sb-ralph@cox.net
Vice President, Wilson Hubbell, 6831240, wilsonhubbell@aol.com
Secretary, Drew Hunter, 896-2119
watair1@earthlink.net
Treasurer, Mark McClure, 967-5031
mcclure606@yahoo.com
Director, Judy Keim, 687-2912
jkpedpad@aol.com
Director, Don Lubach, 964-7798
dlubach@mac.com
Director, Jim Marshall, 962-3531
Jim2Mars@aol.com
Director, David Bourgeois, 899-3728
daveb@alumni.caltech.edu
Director, Nancy Mulholland, 563-9073
nmulhol04@yahoo.com
Advisor, Dru van Hengel, 564-5544
dvanhengel@SantaBarbaraCA.gov
Advisor, Erika Lindemann, 569-1544
erikabikes@cox.net
Advisor, Matt Dobberteen, 568-3000
matt@cosbpw.net
The Cutters
Mark Langowski, 937-3252
mark_langowski@dot.ca.gov
Echelon Santa Barbara
Mark Purcell, markpurcell@cox.net
Goleta Valley Cycling Club
Doris Phinney, 968-3143
Cyclebug@aol.com
Lompoc Valley Bicycle Club
Gene Pritchett, 733-2707
Dr.Gene@gte.net
SB Mountain Bike Trail Volunteers
John Berberet, 681-0048
johnberberet@hotmail.com
Santa Barbara Bicycle Club
Dave Court,
david_court@earthlink.net
Santa Barbara BMX
Dale Bowers, res0d201@verizon.net
Tailwinds Bicycle Club
David Cantero, 937-4097
SMtailwinds@verizon.net
UCSB Cycling Club
Matthew Post , 818-642-3553
plushk2@yahoo.com
Caltrans
www.dot.ca.gov/maintform.html
Carpinteria
Dale Lipp, 684-5405 x402
dalel@ci.carpinteria.ca.us
Goleta
Bill Millar, 961-7575
bmillar@cityofgoleta.org
Lompoc
Larry Bean, 736-1261
l_bean@ci.lompoc.ca.us
Santa Barbara City
Dru van Hengel, 564-5544
dvanhengel@SantaBarbaraCA.gov
Santa Barbara County
Matt Dobberteen, 568-3576
matt@cosbpw.net
Santa Maria
Rick Sweet, 925-0951 x227
rsweet@ci.santa-maria.ca.us
Solvang
Brad Vigro, 688-5575
bradv@cityofsolvang.com
UCSB
Dennis Whelan, 893-7009
Dennis.Whelan@bap.ucsb.edu
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Santa Barbara, CA 93190-2047
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