Santa Barbara’s downtown is changing into a neighborhood of small apartments and micro-units, a shift that has created a sudden new need: storage units.
The Santa Barbara Planning Commission recently approved a complex lot split, transfer of development rights and a development plan to build 760 storage units and 44 micro-units, across a city block downtown.
“There’s a tremendous undersupply of self-storage,” said developer Greg Reitz, principal of REthink Development. “About three times as much self-storage is needed in downtown Santa Barbara than is currently provided.”…