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Harbor Commission backs staff strategic-planning push to analyze revenue options and standardize leasing policy

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The Harbor Commission unanimously recommended continuing strategic-planning work to complete a revenue opportunities analysis and to develop standardized citywide leasing guidelines for waterfront tenants.

The Santa Barbara Harbor Commission voted unanimously to recommend that staff continue strategic-planning work with the commission’s work group and stakeholders to complete a revenue opportunities analysis and to develop citywide standardized leasing guidelines.

Waterfront Director Mike Wilshire told the commission the strategic-planning work group, formed in January 2024, has met repeatedly and that staff produced a waterfront policy dashboard and a community survey in June 2025 that drew more than 500 respondents. Wilshire said the survey showed broad public support for the current mix of ocean-dependent and…

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