At a recent City Council meeting, some of the city’s elected representatives finally gave voice to the communitarian origins and inspirations of the, now five-plus year, State Street “promenade” closure.
Rejecting requests from downtown property owners and some businesses to re-open State Street to automobiles, councilmembers voiced the following:
Sneddon: Regarding the DSBIA [Downtown Santa Barbara Improvement Association] “petition” to partly open State Street, “We have no business making decisions about State Street being open or closed, or one-way or not one-way.” Without COVID, “We would never have had the courage to dream so big, that we could close the street.”…