Dear Planning Commissioner Members:
I write as a 20-year hotel developer and operator (Spanish Garden Inn), as an emeritus professor of Site and Urban Design, and Community and Environmental Planning.
Two hundred and fifty rooms is a very large hotel for Santa Barbara. It would create unavoidable problems in our housing supply, traffic and parking, water and waste management, and natural coastal resources. Its size and scale would overwhelm the one- and two-story buildings of the neighborhood.