Remarks by Bob Nelson
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“Okay. I'm seeing unanimity here on that. And I get I think Supervisor Hartman expressed the similar feelings there. So number two, establish thresholds for ministerial commercial development.”
“And I guess we can play around with that number. If you want to start with 5,000, and we can kind of discuss that and debate it over the next few months when you bring this back to us. I'm comfortable with that number. Do you guys think that that captures a lot of smaller projects?”
“Is everybody okay, comfortable with Yeah, that”
“I'm comfortable with that. I I do think we have these areas that we've done some really significant community design work in. You know, that's areas I want to protect, but outside of those areas, I'm okay with a lot of exemptions when it comes to this. You know, a business, they want their place to look nice, Right? I mean, they're the ones that are spending the money.”
“It's their property. They're not gonna try to look at make it look bad. Now I know that there's themes that we're trying to get to, and we wanna make sure that one neighbor doesn't screw it up for everybody else in these these design areas, and that's why we have design review. But other than that, I don't I'm not overly concerned about it. I”
“But yeah. Okay. Is that helpful for you guys on some feedback here, or are you looking for more?”
“think that's helpful? Give that. Us some options. You know, what we're really doing is we're bringing the value back to the zoning, you know, that zoning should allow certain uses. Right?”
“Residential should allow a house, and commercial should allow commercial development. I mean, that's kind of what we've kind of overly processed these things at this point, so this kind of opens up a little bit. All right. So you got one more for us?”
“I think that's something we all want to see done. Yes.”
“Yes. I think we're all in favor of this. One thought that came out of this was when we were talking about this, or we're going through this. We got residential, we got commercial. We didn't do anything in our industrial zones.”
“I know we have very few. So I just ask you guys to maybe go back and look at that, if there's some abilities to to bring us back some further exemptions in our industrial areas because those are the areas where you should be able to do large development plans without permits or without CUPs, lower level permits.”
“All right, thank you. So my last statement is, I know it was cranky at very beginning, but nothing would make me happier than be proven wrong. So good luck and I'm signing up to be helpful in the process any way I can to make this a successful plan. With that, I'll make a motion to approve items A through C. I'll second.”
“Second by Supervisor Lee. Any further discussion? Seeing none.”
“to be A through C. So with the direction my motion included the direction that we had given in the hearing.”
“Thank you. Sorry. That includes that was B A, B and C. Supervisor Levy, do you accept that clarification of my motion? I do.”
“Okay. All in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion passes unanimously. All right.”
“Let's go ahead and this adjourns our meeting for 05/12/2026. Our next regularly scheduled meeting will be 06/09/2026, in our Santa Barbara Hearing Room. See you there.”