File #: 25-00759    Version: 1
Type: Departmental Agenda Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 8/28/2025 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 9/9/2025 Final action: 9/9/2025
Title: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding responses to the 2024-2025 Grand Jury Report on the South Coast Housing Crisis, as follows: (EST. TIME: 15 MIN.) a) Consider and adopt the responses as the Board of Supervisors' response to the 2024-2025 Grand Jury report entitled "Santa Barbara County South Coast Housing Crisis - A Call to Action;" b) Authorize the Chair to sign the letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of the Santa Barbara County Superior Court; and c) Determine pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guideline 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review because they are governmental administrative activities that do not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment. COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE
Sponsors: COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICE, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - GJ Response - Santa Barbara County South Coast Housing Crisis - A Call to Action, 3. Attachment B - 2024-25 Grand Jury Report - Santa Barbara County South Coast Housing Crisis - a Call to Action, 4. Presentation

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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding responses to the 2024-2025 Grand Jury Report on the South Coast Housing Crisis, as follows: (EST. TIME: 15 MIN.)

 

a) Consider and adopt the responses as the Board of Supervisors’ response to the 2024-2025 Grand Jury report entitled “Santa Barbara County South Coast Housing Crisis – A Call to Action;”

 

b) Authorize the Chair to sign the letter and forward the letter and responses to the Presiding Judge of the Santa Barbara County Superior Court; and

 

c) Determine pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guideline 15378(b)(5) that the above actions are not a project subject to CEQA review because they are governmental administrative activities that do not result in direct or indirect physical changes to the environment.

 

COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE