Entries from February 2018 ↓

Brian Cearnal, AIA, Architect

Cearnal Architecture

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Year to date sales compared to prior years

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Brian Cearnal, AIA, Architect
Recap of October 2017 State Street Charette
Downtown broken into 4 ‘Districts’ or quadrants
December 5, 2017 presentation to SB City Council
Housing is at the forefront in the retail cooridor
Fate of Macys in Paseo Nuevo & Saks 5th Avenue store
What do you do with 80,000 to 100,000 sf of Macys?
“Adaptive re-use”

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Brian Cearnal, AIA, Architect
The Funk Zone, how that evolved
Host would have called it ‘So-way’
AUD Program to encourage rental housing
‘The Marc’ is one example, 1 acre & 60 units
Saks 5th Ave could allow 63 vs. current 27 units
Downtown currently not in AUD overlay

Segment 4
Weekly Multiple Listing Update

Dan Walters, Syndicated Columnist for 50+ years

Cal Matters.org

Segment 1
Year to date sales compared to prior years
Year to date pending sales compared to last year
What’s in escrow over a million compared to prior years
Better analogy between vanity license plates & eminent domain
Which real estate sector has suffered the most?

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Dan Walters, Syndicated Columnist for 50+ years
Nexus between a real estate sector and newspapers
Irony of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos & the Washington Post
Newspaper ownership…why?
Prop 13’s Split Roll Ballot Measure

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Dan Walters, Syndicated Columnist for 50+ years
California needs its Millionaires
Tax Reform’s impact on California’s top 1%
Top 1% = 150,000 out of 15 million returns & 39 million people
1% pays 50% of all State Income
State Real Estate Taxes vs. No State Income Tax
Nice neighborhood in Sacramento

Segment 4
Weekly Multiple Listing Update

Pacific Legal Foundation Senior Attorney Brian T. Hodges

Pacific Legal.org

Segment 1
Year to date sales compared to prior years
What about without Carpinteria & Goleta?
15 beehives are lost in Montecito
My first venture into Montecito since the mudslide

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Pacific Legal Senior Attorney Brian T. Hodge
Eminent Domain or the ‘Taking’ of your property
2 important limitations
Unfortunate interpretation in Kelo v City of New London (2005)
Lower & Middle Class homeowners lose
44 States fight back
Louisiana exception in St. Bernard Port v Violet Dock Port (2018)
Another setback in protecting existing property rights

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Pacific Legal Senior Attorney Brian T. Hodge
Where do you go from here re Louisiana Supreme Court decision
Will the US Supreme Court reverse itself?
The host has a beef with the CA Motor Vehicle Department

Segment 4
Weekly Multiple Listing Update