New Street Sign Hotline

The Public Works Department Street Division is pleased to announce its new Street Sign Hotline number: 560-7569.

The public and all employees are encouraged to call the hotline to report street and traffic signs needing replacement or repair in Santa Barbara. Messages are checked daily by the Street Division Sign Crew Leader.

Free Electronic Collection Event

Friday and Saturday, December 11th and 12th from 9 am to 4pm, at the Sears parking lot, 3845 State St. See the flyer in English or Spanish for details.

Neighborhood Clean Up!

Today was the Eastside Neighborhood Clean-Up! Tons of people turned out to support the event. From what I could tell, every street was touched by the team. It was a great community event. Thank you to Lorraine Cruz Carpenter from Looking Good Santa Barbara and her team for coordinating the event. And thanks to the many volunteers who turned out to help clean our blocks, educate our community and get DIRTY for the cause -- with smiles on their faces! :)

New Life Church and Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara accounted for a large portion of the volunteers. Pura Vida Church and Santa Barbara Community Church also had volunteers in attendance. So thrilled with the church involvement!

Many of the volunteers were Eastside residents who are familiar with the Adopt-A-Block program or received the LGSB news letter. What a great neighborhood we live in! And so nice and clean. Yahoo!

Tree Trimming!

Well, it only took 2 months and about 5 (unreturned) phone calls but we finally got the parkway trees trimmed on our street!! They were hanging so low that the street sweep had to drive completely aroud them. Every day, my neighbors could be seen sweeping up their own streets.

I don't have an 'After' picture but they are now nice and clean and leave plenty of room for the street sweep truck.

I'm still not sure I should have been calling the Street Sweep deparment or the Tree Trimming department? Or if my calls mattered at all? Maybe the trimmers would have come anyway because it was that time of year? Regardless, I do want to encourage everyone too take action! Whether it's a cracked sidewalk, massive tree or garbage...you are able to report these things and have every right to expect them to be managed by our city.

Tree Problems 805.564.5434
Street Sweep 805.897.1903

Pretty Parkways!

A couple of neighbors have been busy relandscaping their parkways recently. Both are on corner lots so their work covers two sides of their property. And they both look really great!!

They obviously put A LOT of work into these project which means, I think, that they obviously take A LOT of pride in their homes. As a result they have not only increased the beauty (and value) of their properties but also helped to beautify this community!

In the coming weeks and months, I'll be highlighting Pretty Parkways as a way to THANK the community members who are going above and beyond in efforts to make the Eastside more beautiful. It definitely inspires me to want to beautify our own parkways!!

Please let me know if there are other Pretty Parkways that deserve recognition.