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John Palminteri

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – After a roughly three-year process, the document that could reshape downtown Santa Barbara on the State Street corridor has been prepared.

At 153 pages along with many drawings, simulated pictures, and input from the community – the Create State – State Street Draft Master Plan is now in the hands of the Santa Barbara City Council.

It covers the entire downtown area from Gutierrez Street to Sola Street.

The project in part calls for a community-focused balance between pedestrian and vehicle access, including narrow travel lanes and a suggested speed for any type of vehicle of 20 miles per hour or less. The main road users will be transit, service vehicles, cyclists and emergency responders.

It does not clearly call for cars to return to State Street for normal commuter patterns or to see the storefronts while driving by. The main corridors remain the cross streets along with Chapala St. and Anacapa St.

The sidewalks would be extended out creating more room for dining tables, outside retail and pedestrians along with some vending carts.

Analysts say to make these changes would cost the city millions of dollars per block.

The city currently has a financial deficit of about $4-million.

A city council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday at 2:00 pm. After the staff presentation, the council will ask questions and take public comments in person and the phone.

The council will then decide if it wants to advance the plan or have changes made before any future steps take place.

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Dave Alley

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) – The California Highway Patrol (CHP) will conduct a special 24-hour maximum enforcement period this week in an effort to help reduce speeding.

Beginning at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning through 5:59 a.m. on April 29, CHP said its officers will monitor roadways and take enforcement action against drivers who exceed posted speed limits or travel at unsafe speeds for the conditions.

“Speeding continues to be one of the leading causes of serious and fatal crashes on California’s roadways,” said CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee. “When drivers choose to exceed safe speeds, they reduce their ability to react and increase the risk for everyone on the road. Slowing down is one of the simplest steps that drivers can take to protect themselves and others.”

According to a CHP release, officers issued over 491,000 citations for speed-related violations last year.

In addition, the department reported over 110,000 crashes resulted from unsafe speeds, which led to more than 400 deaths and injured over 68,000 people.

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Patricia Martellotti

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – A new funding opportunity is expanding access to flexible support for small non-profit organizations across Santa Barbara County.

The Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara is launching a Small Grants pilot program aimed at organizations with annual budgets under $500,000. Beginning June 1, 2026, eligible non-profits can apply for unrestricted grants of $10,000 or $25,000.

The application window runs through June 30, 2026, with grant recipients expected to be announced in November.

The funding is designed to be flexible, allowing organizations to use the money for programming, operations, capacity-building, or capital needs. Program leaders emphasize the goal is to reduce administrative barriers and allow smaller nonprofits to focus more directly on service delivery.

The initiative was shaped by feedback from Women’s Fund members and is part of a broader effort to align grant making with community needs. While the organization continues its larger grant program for established nonprofits with higher budgets, this new pilot specifically targets smaller agencies that often face challenges accessing competitive funding streams.

Additional details and the application portal will be available beginning June 1 at http://www.womensfundsb.org.

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Tracy Lehr

LA CONCHITA, Calif. (KEYT) Spring cleaning is underway and that means residents in La Conchita are preparing for their yard sale.

The community between Ventura and Carpinteria put up a giant yard sale sign along the 101 freeway.

The annual yard sale is the first weekend in May.

Shoppers can pull into the town, park and check it out next weekend.

Items often include surfboards, wetsuits and fishing gear.

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Mike Klan

MARGARET RIVER, Australia. (KEYT) – Lakey Peterson finishes on top “down under.”

Peterson pulled out a last-minute victory over Luana Silva to capture the Western Australia Margaret River Pro.

It’s a seventh career World Surfing League Championship Tour victory for the Santa Barbara native Peterson and a second at Main Break.

MARGARET RIVER, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA – APRIL 26: Lakey Peterson of the United States winning the Final at the Western Australia Margaret River Pro on April 26, 2026 at Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia. (Photo by Beatriz Ryder/World Surf League)

The thrilling victory catapults her to second in the world rankings.

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

Cal State Fullerton 6, UCSB 1: The UC Santa Barbara Baseball team (27-14, 13-8 Big West) suffered its first conference series loss and sequence of back-to-back defeats since March on Sunday, falling, 6-1, to Cal State Fullerton (21-21, 13-8 Big West). With three weeks left in the regular season, the Gauchos and Titans now both sit two games out of first place behind Big West leader Cal Poly and one game back of second place UC San Diego. Santa Barbara holds the tiebreakers over both the Tritons and Mustangs, while both of those teams remain on the Titans’ schedule. (Information provided by UCSB Athletics).

Cal Poly 5, CSUN 2: Ryan Tayman slugged his team-leading 13th home run on the year, a 2-run shot to snap a 1-1 tie in the fifth inning. Dante Vachini drove in 2 runs for the Mustangs who now have sole possession of first place in the Big West with a 15-6 record.

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Patricia Martellotti

MONTECITO, Calif. (KEYT) – A historic treasure in Montecito is getting new life.

A ribbon cutting marked the completion of a federally funded restoration at Casa del Herrero.

The South Exedra project preserves a key part of the National Historic Landmark.

The effort brings together Casa del Herrero and the California Missions Foundation.

The restored space now stands ready to be enjoyed for generations to come.

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Tracy Lehr

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) The Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival honored environmental heroes.

Unite to Light President Megan Birney Rudert told the crowd how the nonprofit brings affordable solar power and light to the international community.

She took the stage during windy weather and talked about the lives that have been changed due to the simple gift of solar lights and power.

Former environmental hero recipient Rep. Salud Carbajal helped honor Assemblymember Gregg Hart.

The Community Environmental Council credits Hart with leading California’s way when it comes to protecting blue whales and blue skies.

Both recipients hope to encourage people to find ways to help the planet and the community.

“Everybody has the power to make a difference and when we make small changes here, or we help someone across the globe, we can unlock human potential and we can protect our planet,” said Birney Rudert.

“We are all doing this together, we love living on the Central Coast,” said Hart, “We know how precious our ocean and our climate is and we want to make sure this stays one of the best places on the planet and my work is just part of that effort.”

A #setlife zero emission battery power trailer powered the main stage.

The audience included some former environmental heroes and their friends and families.

For more information visit https://www.sbearthday.org

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Caleb Nguyen

ORCUTT, Calif. (KEYT) – Santa Barbara County Fire crews put out an attic fire at the 1500 block of Oaks Bluffs Drive in Orcutt.

The fire first broke out at 5:00 p.m. and crews knocked it down around 5:25 p.m., according to the SBCFD.

Firefighters found the attic on fire at the two-story home and got water out of the home from activated sprinklers in the area.

The fire injured no one, and no other home was damaged.

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Caleb Nguyen

VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) – Fire crews helped recover a Tesla that drove off the side of the freeway in a major injury crash just before 10:00 a.m. Sunday, according to the Ventura CHP.

CHP Ventura crews shut down one lane of the freeway to investigate the crash and to recover the crashed Tesla, slowing traffic.

CHP crews got to the Tesla just before 12:30 p.m. and the extent of injuries to the driver is unknown at this time.

More information on the crash will be provided as it becomes available to Your News Channel.

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