Isla Vista’s Deltopia 2024 is a “success” because nobody died this year. Two sexual assault investigations go along with 256 citations and 32 arrests, but, no worries, it’s a “success” because County Supervisor Laura Capps handed out free Narcan. I doubt there was a single residential neighborhood in the entire country with that many weekend infractions.
The Isla Vista Community Services District (IVCSD) spent $80,000 from Isla Vistans' utility bills to throw a sanctioned party during the unsanctioned Deltopia party and calls it a “success” because it drew crowds away from Del Playa. The ocean-side street, where the real party happened, was packed with tens of thousands of people — so many you could not walk down the street. The ever-increasing numbers are dangerous and can be attributed to lack of competent governance by Laura Capps and the IVCSD.
Saturday afternoon my daughter and two friends walked the beach from Devereux to Campus Point and then back north on Del Playa. Within a two-hour window they witnessed partiers climbing over chain-link fences on the cliff side and countless disabled drunk and drugged people transported by emergency personnel on Del Playa. There were numerous police and a helicopter flying over the “party” — all at taxpayers’ expense.