Three downtown business leaders talked about the benefits of the proposed Community Benefit Assessment District for State Street in the latest episode of
Coast Village Association Touts Benefits of Improvement District Plans to Transform Montecito Street
Feeling besieged on all sides, Coast Village Road merchants mobilize to convince Santa Barbara City Council to green light self-imposed funding program
Bob Ludwick, president of the Coast Village Association, is working with property owners and businesses to create a benefit assessment district to fund long-sought improvements on Montecito’s Coast Village Road. “If we all contribute something, we can do significant things here,” he says. (Joshua Molina / Noozhawk photo) By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina
February 28, 2021
| 4:55 p.m.
When the Coast Village Association goes before the Santa Barbara City Council on Tuesday, the Montecito advocacy organization will be looking to pull off something monumental.