Santa Barbara County has been mandated to produce a certain amount of low-income housing to help solve the housing crisis in California. In Stuart Kasdin's commentary about the unsuitability of many of the sites primarily located in Goleta along western Hollister Avenue, he states that the decisions regarding the choices of property sites to be developed are "neither fair nor equitable."
An additional argument can be made regarding the site at 469 South Kellogg Way in Goleta. The property is listed as "underutilized," but in fact it is completely utilized as the only major vehicle storage site in the Santa Barbara area, containing approximately 200 work trucks, trailers, boats, RVs, campers, and other storage.
In doing research as to where these vehicles could be stored if the property were mandated for construction, only one available site was located in Carpinteria. This leaves Santa Paula or Santa Maria as alternatives.