In a unanimous decision on Tuesday, May 6, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors has approved a significant financial push for a housing project aimed at local educators.
The board sanctioned a $1.1 million loan to cover “development impact fees” for a new affordable housing initiative spearheaded by the Santa Barbara Unified School District in partnership with Red Tail Multifamily Land Development.
This venture will see the creation of 106 affordable housing units on the so-called Tatum property, located near San Marcos Growers in the Eastern Goleta Valley. Having sold the property to Red Tail for $17 million, the district is set to close escrow this month.
The development, located near San Simeon Drive and San Marcos Road, spans across four acres and will include 51 one-bedroom homes, 26 two-bedrooms, and 29 three-bedrooms. They will be adjacent to 385 “market rate” units and 26 “moderate rate” units developed by Red Tail for a total of 517 units.
The Santa Barbara County Housing Authority will oversee the operation of the affordable units at Tatum, ensuring that the project adheres to its mission of providing safe, reliable housing to those in need.
This project is in addition to another staff housing plan at the former Lawrence M. Parma School on the Eastside, promising 30 units.
Santa Barbara Unified announced the project in 2023, also in partnership with the Housing Authority, to develop housing for educators on land already owned by the District.
Located at 915 E Montecito Street in Santa Barbara, the former school was selected as the best prospect. The site contains 0.66 acres and is located close to shopping, transportation, and schools.
This project is still in development.
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BASIC – ” pretty extravagant for subsidized housing that comes out of our students’ money to learn.”
You just complained that I mentioned that the teaching profession has predators. Now, these teachers aren’t good enough for 2 shared pools and hot tubs for over 100 housing units?
You always champion teachers (which is great), but this is too much? Yeah, a couple pools and hot tubs to be shared by a few hundred people is “extravagant.” It’s 1.1 million, not billion. AND IT’S A LOAN.
You really just complain for the sake of complaining. Did you even read the article or just see “teacher housing” in the headline and the tiny blue squares in the drawing and then lose your s*^%?
Based on the rendering it looks like they’ll be getting pools and jacuzzis. Dang! That would be pretty extravagant for subsidized housing that comes out of our students’ money to learn.
Based on the article text (which I read!), teacher housing makes up 105 units out of a total of 517 in the full development. It’s not like the teachers are getting pools and hot tubs specifically for them. Even if they did, god forbid they’d get offered something for recreation and/or fitness. There may even be a gym *GASP* I know! As SacJon mentioned, it’s a loan that will be paid back, so who cares?
CHET – BASIC throws a fit about every topic ever breached here on Edhat. You should see him when there’s a weather warning or a rescue, where he then freaks out because the people needing rescue didn’t heed the weather warnings that BASIC also says are useless, except when you don’t listen to them and need to be rescued because you didn’t listen to the weather warnings he wants abolished.
Can’t win with this guy/gal.
It’s mixed use – like any planned community from Carpinteria to Goleta – there’s a mix of market rate units (that essentially pay a premium for the pool/ gym/ spa) and affordable units that reap the benefit.
I believe the Parma School was previously known as the Franklin Kindergarten School. Start at the kindergarten school and then “graduate” to Franklin Elementary a couple blocks east on Montecito Street.
“If you build it, they will come” and we need good teachers! I think the future of this area will be employers needing to provide housing to keep anyone.
The building of multi-unit complexes has ALOT to do with PARKING. 915 E Montecito Street for example, has 90 units and only accommodates 45 parking spaces…. That will put about 50 more vehicles on the local streets. Walk the local streets on weekends and evenings.. locals cannot park on their own streets today The multimillionaires that build this have NO consideration for the locals. Our city electors should have consideration for the locals and force developers to match the internal parking with the number of units. This should be enforced with ALL new multi-unit developments.