The Santa Maria City Council voted 3-2 (with Councilmembers Gloria Soto and Carlos Escobedo dissenting) to adopt a land use alternative for the city’s general.
After hearing calls to protect prime agricultural land, the Santa Maria City Council agreed to consider property at the southeast edge of the community
Campgrounds, special events and ranchland guided tours were among the topics most frequently addressed, with two speakers critical of the ordinance for its one-size-fits-all approach.
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, an organization with the mission of protecting and restoring local water resources, has joined a broad coalition of environmentalists, fishing organizations and Latinx and farmworker community groups in a lawsuit against the California State Water Resources Control Board, challenging their decision to deprioritize nitrate pollution. This past September, a regulatory order which