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City of Santa Barbara Awarded $20,000 to Expand Urban Forest
Santa Barbara Beautiful, a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing Santa Barbara’s beauty, has awarded the City’s Urban Forestry program a $20,000 grant to support tree-planting efforts in 2023. The 57-year partnership between the…
Annual Rose Pruning Event Returns January 14
The City of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Department will host their annual Rose Pruning Day on Saturday, January 14, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
City Awarded $54 Million in Active Transportation Program Funding
The City of Santa Barbara has been awarded $54 million through the California Active Transportation Program for projects on Cliff Drive, Milpas Street, and within the Westside and Lower West neighborhoods.
The Active Transportation Program…
Sign Up for the Quarterly Business Newsletter -- Business News in Brief
The City of Santa Barbara will be issuing a quarterly business newsletter, Business News in Brief, beginning in January 2023. To sign up for the digital newsletter that will be distributed via email, interested members of the public are…
City Names New Director of its Sustainability and Resilience Department
The City of Santa Barbara has named Alelia Parenteau Director of the Sustainability and Resilience Department. Ms. Parenteau has been the Acting Sustainability and Resilience Director since September 2021.
“Ms. Parenteau has been an…
Fuel Reduction and Invasive Plant Removal Conducted in Stevens Park
The City of Santa Barbara Fire Department and Parks and Recreation Department are working together to reduce wildfire risk in Santa Barbara's open space parks. Last week, the departments, with the support of a wildland firefighting hand…
La ciudad lanza un portal de licencias comerciales en línea y anuncia cambios en el período de renovación de licencias comerciales
En un esfuerzo para mejorar los servicios de administración de impuestos y licencias y mejorar el servicio al cliente, la Ciudad lanzará un portal de negocios en línea y cambiará a un período de renovación de licencias de negocios de año…
City of Santa Barbara Hosts Community Design Workshops for “Create State” – the State Street Master Plan
On Friday, December 9 and Saturday, December 10, the City will host workshops at 821 State Street (between Canon Perdido and De La Guerra Streets) for members of the community to help create design concepts for the future of State…
City Launches Online Business License Portal and Announces Changes to Business License Renewal Period
In an effort to improve tax and license administration services and enhance customer service, the City will launch an online business portal and move to a calendar-year business license renewal period in January 2023.
Tax Results for the City of Santa Barbara
The City of Santa Barbara collected $2.86 million in transient occupancy taxes (TOT) for October 2022. TOT revenues in October 2022 were about 17.4% above the monthly budget, continuing a solid uptrend that is fueled by higher average…