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LINKS ARTICLES & EDITORIALS on DEVELOPMENT ISSUES S. Coast handed reprieve on Growth - SB NewsPress 5/25/06 High-density foes gain a victory - SB NewsPress 5/24/06 Funny business with school district properties by Gary Earle - SB NewsPress 2/05/06 Eastern valley generous with affordable housing by Ann Crosby - SB NewsPress 1/31/06 Quartet creating buzz over 2nd District Seat - SB NewsPress 10/25/05 Noleta Residents Fight Big Projects - SB NewsPress 10/22/05 Which Way Noleta? (by Gary Earle) - SB NewsPress 10/09/05 People need a plan, not county limbo (by Gary Earle)- SB NewsPress 8/31/05 Upper State ground zero in development fight- SB NewsPress 7/11/05 Supervisors, Can you hear this citizen now? - SB NewsPress 5/19/05 Officials, Community Divided on Planning Goals - SB NewsPress 5/18/05 Planning for Goleta (by Peter Sturken) - SB NewsPress 3/06/05 Median Prices of Homes Coming Down - SB NewsPress 10/31/04 Housing Meeting Makes Case for Delay - SB NewsPress 10/29/04 Real Cost of Subsidized Housing - SB NewsPress 9/8/04 County's Subsidized-Housing Candidates Not Exactly Poor - Earle 9/5/04 Inclusionary Housing Perpetuates Failed Social Experiment - Seefeld 9/5/04 The Trap of Affordable Housing - SB NewsPress 8/12/04 Rose rushing to re-zone - SB NewsPress 8/31/04 Valley Voice CONTACTS FOR WRITING TO LOCAL NEWSPAPERS SANTA BARBARA NEWS PRESS Tel: 805-564-5200 Fax: 805-966-6258 Letters to the Editor : voices@newspress.com GOLETA VALLEY VOICE Phone: (805) 683-7657 Fax: (805) 683-7697 E-mail: vvoice@goletavalleyvoice.com Editor and Publisher James Farr, Ph.D. E-mail: jfarr@goletavalleyvoice.com THE SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT 805.965.5205 phone 805.965.5518 fax Letters to the Editor : letters@independent.com CONTACTS FOR COUNTY SUPERVISORS Salud Carbajal supervisorcarbajal@co.santa-barbara.ca.us Janet Wolf jwolf@sbcbos2.org Brookes Firestone bfirestone@co.santa-barbara.ca.us Joni Gray jgray@co.santa-barbara.ca.us Joseph Centeno jcenteno@co.santa-barbara.ca.us To view the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisor's regular meeting schedule and agendas, click here OTHER LINKS to FEED YOUR MIND Save Goleta Valley Agriculture!!! NOV 22, 2004 Inclusionary Housing Program proposed changes - PDF MAP OF SECOND DISTRICT (PDF file) GOLETA GROWTH MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE - PDF US MAY CUT WATER - Sacramento Bee American Lung Association downgrades Santa Barbara's ozone rating to 'F'. Regional Housing Needs Assessment - PDF List of Proposed sites in Goleta Valley - PDF Housing Element - good backgrounder - PDF Citizen's Guide to Planning - State of California General Plan Gudielines, State of California - PDF Agricultural Easements - Land Trust of Santa Barbara County Goleta's urban farmland Background on Goleta Ag Land from County P & D - PDF Goleta Community Plan - Overlay - PDF City Services and Government from the Santa Barbara News Press Federal, State and local Elected Representatives