Edhat Staff
The City of Santa Barbara is hosting a public meeting for the De La Guerra Plaza Revitalization Project, a significant initiative aimed at revitalizing one of the city’s key historical sites.
The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 14, 2024, and will be held at the Palm Park Beach House located at 236 East Cabrillo Boulevard, from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
This event marks a crucial phase in the environmental review process, offering the community an opportunity to partake in the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) scoping. Interested parties are invited to express their views and concerns regarding the proposed project’s environmental implications as outlined in the Notice of Preparation and the initial study under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
The scoping period for the project’s EIR commenced on Friday, November 1, 2024, and will conclude on Friday, December 6, 2024. The city encourages public participation to ensure a broad range of issues related to the project’s environmental impacts are addressed.
Rendering of proposed changes to City Hall frontage in De La Guerra Plaza (Courtesy of RRM Design Group)
The De La Guerra Plaza Revitalization Project aims to enhance the plaza’s historical significance while improving its functionality and accessibility for residents and visitors. Residents, business owners, and stakeholders are encouraged to attend the meeting to learn more about the project and voice their opinions.
Visit the project’s webpage for more information.
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What is the obsession with paving over everything in this town? The library plaza has no shade and too much hardscape, and now they want to do the same at De La Guerra Plaza at a time when we need more green spaces and trees, not fewer.
Turf grass is one of the highest water using plants. If we are concerned for minimizing water usage, eliminating turf grass should be high on the list. A paved plaza, such as proposed, also is more versatile for community events. Trees, shrubs, etc. can still be provided around the perimeter.
Make work
Me Crog, me make fire.
The City has been kicking this can down the road for more than a decade. A lot of $ has been spent on studies and proposals that went nowhere. Perhaps this time some action will come about. DLG Plaza is, or should be, the City’s “town square.” It should be done right.
Agree that it was the town square, but there has been a determined effort by the city to make the plaza unattractive the last couple of years so that anything will be preferable, including hardscape and removal of all parking, the approx. 35 spaces not counting those on de la Guerra St. A small fraction of the money that has gone into this effort by city staff, led by Brad Hess and before him, Rob Dayton, would have watered the grass to golf course quality for many, many years. This has been a perfect example of how staff runs things in this city, with outreach to the public but not paying attention to anything but what they have already they want. And that is hardscape, relocating the historic palm tree, getting rid of the streetside public parking (but not the staff parking!), having a “water feature” to attract tourists, and other amenities for tourist-driven Santa Barbara — and basically nothing that speaks to the historic heart of the city!
“Planners.”
At least consider using shade trees rather than palm trees.