Anonymous
Source: City of Goleta
The City of Goleta Train Depot project is chugging along even during these challenging times. Three potential designs have been selected and now we need your help to select what design or aspects of the designs you like best. Community input is an important part of the project and there are three important ways you can learn about this future Goleta landmark and give us your feedback.
Please visit the Goleta Train Depot Project page on the City website at https://tinyurl.com/GoletaTrainDepot and check out the new slide deck featuring the design concepts, site plan, building floorplan layout and three roadway designs. After reviewing the slide deck, please take the survey listed on the website providing your feedback as well as important amenities you would like to see in the building and roadway improvements.
We also hope you will join us on June 3, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. for a live Zoom meeting presentation on the designs. You will be able to listen and provide live chat comments during the presentation. The meeting will be broadcast live and also recorded and available to view after the meeting. The meeting link is available at https://tinyurl.com/GoletaTrainDepot.
City of Goleta Mayor Paula Perotte said, “Goleta’s new train station will be an important gateway to our city for both residents and visitors. Community participation in the design will help ensure that our station will be beautiful, safe, and functional.”
The Goleta Train Depot will be a full-service multi-modal train station next to the existing Amtrak platform on South La Patera Lane. By creating a full-service station, the City hopes to increase train ridership, improve connections to bus transit, accommodate transit service to/from the Santa Barbara Airport and UCSB, and add new bicycle and pedestrian facilities. This project will also allow accommodation for future additional train storage, supporting increased commuter rail needs.
The City of Goleta was awarded a $13 million grant for the Goleta Train Depot in partnership with Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) in 2018. The City and SBCAG sought grant funds from the Transit & Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP) to meaningfully improve passenger experience. The project centers around the City of Goleta’s purchase of the old Direct Relief International warehouse, which allows the City to redevelop the property to create a welcoming train station for travelers to the region.
Sunrise is kind of cool but will look like crap a few years from now. Goleta is a hodgepodge of architecture – a lot of it terrible POMO stuff or mall-from-a-kit aesthetics. You know, foam corbels and columns of incongruous style with a zillion different stucco colors and stone patterns all in one development. Let’s go with traditional. It will stand the test of time.
The Schooner Theme will provide more shaded and rain protected area for those waiting or eating.
Traditional gets my vote. We don’t need to “make a statement” with oddball architecture.
POMO? What insider stuff are you referencing? On line it refers to a native North American people.
I like Sunrise. It is simple and will last. The “sunrise” interpretation is a camouflage. It is a pretty simple and basic design that seems timeless.
Traditional gets my vote. Simple and classic.
On second thoughts, the current structure is okay. Why waste money on this?
What an odd thing to say. The “traditional” architecture you now cherish was also new at some time. Certainly it did not exist in the pre-Victorian era.
You’ll be able to roast chickens in the Sunrise building on a sunny day. The AC bill will be yuge.
I find the two theme buildings to have a complete lack of imagination. Goleta should contact Disney if they want to go that route, but really folks…it’s a TRAIN station, not a Taj Mahal.
I like the homage to Stow House. Traditional, classic, and part of Goleta history.
@RHS I can see your thought process there but honestly it looks like a mall-from-a-kit of the variety found all over America. I think the fact it blends in as you mention is a lucky coincidence and you’re giving the architect (if there really even was one) too much credit. 🙂
Maybe because there is no current structure, except an outhouse and a busstop.
Last time I checked there were restrooms, a covered area to wait for the train, and another area to wait for the Amtrak bus, both with benches. Seems adequate to me, but if Goleta wants to throw money away I vote for traditional. Those other concepts are truly bizarre.
They are all pretty hideous, bu the traditional hurts my eyes the least. That Sunrise one looks like it would be hotter than Hades with all that south facing glass.
Shade can easily be added later.
SBRose: I do not see that the “Sunrise design” is post modern which I associat with strip malls and the Disney Studios. Post modern does contain absurd details and non-functional design elements. Improbable angles and cute tricks. I like this ‘Quonset hut’ design because it is functional, simple and should be relatively inexpensive to construct. Because the design is so structural it should endure and not age in place over its probably life span.