Goleta Valley Voice Roundup - 4/27

Front Page:
Forces collide in push for quick change
Potential changes to creek maintenance standards, coastal bluff setbacks and big box development policies are on the city planners’ priority list for the General Plan. Labeled “fast-track,” the 12 proposed amendments handed in by staff allow for more flexibility in the plan, a notion decried by slow-growth residents and encouraged by the business community and development interests.

News Briefs:
In Brief

• Sarvis to lead campaign for United Way
• UCSB chills, wins
• Phetteplace elected Elks Exalted Ruler
• Green Award Nominations
• Grand Jury applications

Sheriff's Blotter

• Hot tip: Don't bring your stash to jail
• Caught on tape
• That'll do it
• Stinking drunk
• The holy hookup
• When 'day' turned to night
• Two of a kind
• Dudettes!
• You talkin' to me?
• Smash and grab

Viewpoint:
Letters to the Editor

• The Church of Tiger Woods
• Time for the next revolution

Community:
Goleta Scrapbook: At 133 degrees, valley became the Hell Land
Famous for its temperate climate, the Goleta Valley was nonetheless the site of North America’s only simoon, a scorching hot wind that took the temperature to 133 degrees in the middle of the 19th century.

Business:
Strictly Local: An artisan with feet firmly planted.
If Ray Hale comes into the room with his eyes downcast, don’t be surprised: flooring is his business, and with more than 20 years in the field, it’s likely that he put in the floor you’re standing on.

Other articles at at the Goleta Valley Voice website.