October 29 7pm to 8:30 at McKinley Elementary School, located across the street from SBCC East Campus entrance.

 

Because of my earlier time with the SBCC Center for Sustainability, I’m interested in the SBCC Trustee candidate races. 

One of the main issues where there seems to be  difference of opinions  is proposal to build dorms for 7000 out of District students on campus. 

According to current SBCC Trustee Marsha Croninger, who doesn’t favor, using UCSB dorms at their smallest footprint as example, it would be like adding 35 eight story high rises plus parking plus staffing offices plus expanded food services to campus. 

 

it would be sited where the new award winning Permaculture Gardens are currently located!  not that these gardens are the most important thing in the universe when housing is needed, but still…   

 

also, a question,  with sea rise levels projected, is it is even wise to invest that much money in buildings so close to vulnerable oceanfront area, even if projections 20- 50 years in the future. 

 

The forum is sponsored by the California Center for Public Policy. 

 

 

Noozhawk & SBCC Trustee Candidates:

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/santa_barbara_city_college_trustees_election_20181014

 

 

 

 

These are projections for future sea level rise, based on mapping data used for a 2012 study of the Santa Barbara coastline. Blue portions represent 17 inches of sea level rise by 2050, plus three feet of flooding. Red portions represent 55 inches by 2100, plus three feet of flooding. Maps like this use the “bathtub approach” — assuming that everything below a specific elevation will be inundated — and do not factor in natural or man-made barriers.

Image f& caption rom SB Independent Article Thursday, June 29 2018: These are projections for future sea level rise, based on mapping data used for a 2012 study of the Santa Barbara coastline. Blue portions represent 17 inches of sea level rise by 2050, plus three feet of flooding. Red portions represent 55 inches by 2100, plus three feet of flooding. Maps like this use the “bathtub approach” — assuming that everything below a specific elevation will be inundated — and do not factor in natural or man-made barriers.