Santa Barbara supervisors approved changes to the county’s permissive cannabis rules last week amid growing frustration from residents and officials in Goleta, Lompoc, Carpinteria, and elsewhere.
Santa Barbara has been named the leading bicycle city of California, according to new rankings from PeopleForBikes.
The Lompoc City Council voted Monday to move forward with an emergency plan to streamline the commercial marijuana permitting process in that city.
There are dozens of local measures on cannabis to be decided by voters in California next month. Most of them would establish a new tax basis for marijuana businesses.
Teresa Gallavan has been hired as the city manager of Selma.
Oxnard chief financial officer Jim Throop is headed to Lompoc to serve as its next city manager.
Lompoc City Manager Patrick Wiemiller is headed to Santa Maria to assume the assistant city manager’s job. He’ll start in about 90 days, according to statements released by both cities on Nov. 9.