Sandwich boards in the downtown Santa Maria area are safe from extinction—at least for another year. On Aug. 17, the Santa Maria City Council voted 4-1, with Mayor Larry Lavagnino dissenting, to extend to 2011 the sunset clause on a ban against using portable advertising signs outside businesses in the city’s Downtown Specific Plan. The […]
AMY ASMAN AND JEREMY THOMAS
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Local business owners file letter in opposition to Measure S
“We’re taxed enough already! Vote ‘NO’ on Measure S 2010.” That’s the opening line of a letter filed on July 28 by Gregory Gandrud, chairman of the Santa Barbara County Republican Party, and a handful of local business owners opposing the addition of a half-cent sales tax on to the November ballot. The Board of […]