As Mayor of Santa Barbara

 

I WILL Push Back on Sacramento’s Destructive Mandates

Sacramento bureaucrats are forcing one-size-fits-all policies onto cities like ours—policies that ignore local needs, gut our planning processes, and strip away the voice of residents.

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I WILL Stand up to state mandates that erode our ability to manage development, zoning, and housing policy in ways that make sense for our community.

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I WILL Fight to restore local control so that decisions about our neighborhoods are made by us, not by unelected officials in Sacramento.

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I WILL Build a coalition of other cities to resist harmful legislation and demand meaningful input in statewide policies that impact

our lives.

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“We didn’t elect Sacramento to run Santa Barbara...

so why are we letting them bulldoze our laws, our neighborhoods, and our way of life?” 

~ Nick Sebastian