On May 15, the county Board of Supervisors will consider amending the county zoning ordinance to streamline and speed the gargantuan task of rebuilding Montecito in the wake of a catastrophic debris flow.
It’s all in the spirit of helping 216 families whose homes were destroyed or damaged on the fateful morning of January 9 to get their lives back soon as possible.
But in the spirit of Pearl Chase, the legendary Santa Barbaran who helped transform the city after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in 1925, Montecito’s leaders are asking the county to hold off on voting so soon.