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Supervisors adopt ordinance package to streamline permits and update housing rules, with Montecito modifications
Summary
The Board approved an ordinance-streamlining and housing-accommodation package to modernize permit processes and update open-space, density and commercial-depth rules; the board accepted several Montecito-specific recommendations and clarified 'primary street frontage' language for neighborhood-commercial zones.
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors adopted on Jan. 27 a multi-part ordinance package intended to streamline permitting procedures and update residential and commercial zoning to implement the county’s housing element.
Planning staff summarized key revisions: allow concurrent processing of variances with associated permits, provide a pathway for appeals directly to the Board of Supervisors in limited circumstances, set substantive conformity allowances with a 10% square-footage change bounded by a minimum (500 sq ft) and maximum (5,000 sq ft), and…
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