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Harbor commission backs nontransferable slip permits, seeks lottery to open wait list
Summary
The Santa Barbara Harbor Commission directed staff to finalize changes making slips obtained from the public wait list nontransferable and to consolidate multiple closed wait lists into a single annual lottery, a move intended to increase public access and curb private profiteering.
The Santa Barbara Harbor Commission voted July 2025 to move forward with revisions to the waterfront slip wait list policy that would make any slip obtained from the public wait list nontransferable and convert the current multi-list system into a single annual lottery.
Commissioners said the changes aim to increase public access to slip space and to stop individuals from keeping wait-list rights for long periods and then selling them for profit. Harbor Operations Manager Nathan Aldridge told the commission the threefold staff goals for the policy are compliance with the local coastal plan, fairness, and “providing policy that enhances low cost accessibility for slips.”
Aldridge said the present system — a master wait list, a submaster wait list and a lottery list — has become complicated and largely…
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