1 miramar beach resort and bungalows project 2 - Santa Barbara ...

1 and every one of them is for the Miramar.
2 There are two things that have come up today
3 that have kind of bothered me. One is parking
4 especially when it comes to Miramar Avenue, and I've
5 heard people say we lost "X" number of parking spaces
6 because that is no longer there.
7 And when my kids were younger, we used to
8 take that road down there. Most of those parking spaces
9 especially on the weekend were taken by the residents of
10 the Miramar.
11 And the other thing is that there's been a
12 lot of talk about cottage, cottage. What is cottage? I
13 found out today that the Four Seasons now is no longer
14 Mediterranean, but it's cottage. This is not a joke,
15 but if the Montecito Community Plan, which I'm a staunch
16 supporter of, was issued in 1908, and they said we can
17 only have one horse with one buggy, would that still
18 apply? No. Because we have automobiles now; is that
19 correct?
20 So my point is is that, if the cottage-type
21 thing does not fit into, let's say, the economic and
22 financial needs of not only the Carusos of our
23 community, then we're going to have to have a little
24 more flexibility as to what we're going to put there
25 because currently this particular thing, as far as the
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