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If you missed last week’s EJ Harrison & Sons pick-up, don’t worry, you still have a chance to recycle your Christmas tree and have extra garbage and recycling collected. For two weeks after the holiday, EJ Harrison & Sons will pick up trees for recycling and will allow for twice the usual amount of residential customers’ trash at no extra cost.

To have your tree recycled, remove ornaments, hooks, lights, tinsel, bows, nails and the tree stand; cut the tree into 4-foot sections; and place it in your tan yard waste barrel on your scheduled pickup day. Flocked Christmas trees are accepted. Collected trees will be processed into various sizes of mulch used on local farmlands, orchards, and nurseries.

To have EJ Harrison pick up extra trash, place it in bags alongside your regular green trash barrel. Be sure to flatten all boxes and place them alongside your blue recycling barrel.

We wish you a wonderful 2023! City Hall will be closed tomorrow so that our staff may enjoy the holiday. We’ll return to our normal hours on Tuesday, Jan. 3.

We have Community Pool news! Please take note of changes to our regular schedule above as well as afternoon closures that allow for Carpinteria High School water polo matches in the pool. Please visit our website at https://bit.ly/CarpinteriaPool for more information.

Merry Christmas to all!

To allow our staff time to celebrate the holidays, City Hall, Carpinteria Community Library and Carpinteria Community Pool will be closed at various times over the next two weeks. Thank you for your understanding. We wish everyone the happiest of holidays!

The Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce, from Goleta to Carpinteria, is now taking nominations for the Regional Business Awards. The awards will be presented at the Chamber’s Annual Membership Meeting & Regional Business Awards luncheon on Feb. 2 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort.

Members of the community are asked to nominate businesses or non-profits from Goleta, Santa Barbara and Carpinteria that have made a significant impact in our community over the last year. Award categories include Small and Large Business of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Non-Profit of the Year, Hospitality Award, Community Business of the Year, and Milestone Business Award, among others. Nomination forms should be submitted by 9 a.m. on Jan. 3 and are available at https://bit.ly/3PUpy0c.

The City Council, Planning Commission and Architectural Review Board will meet on Monday, Dec. 19 at 5:30 p.m. to conceptually review a mixed-use commercial/residential development on a 0.87-acre lot located at 4745 Carpinteria Ave. The proposal would result in the redevelopment of the property currently occupied by Sun Coast Rentals into a new three-story mixed use development with commercial and residential units. Conceptual plans are for a 24-unit 26,400-square-foot two-story apartment complex built atop a ground-level 22,500-square-foot concrete parking podium, and a 6,000-square-foot two-story commercial building fronting Carpinteria Avenue.

The Conceptual Hearing will be held at City Hall, 5775 Carpinteria Ave. Members of the public may attend the meeting at City Hall or view the meeting live at www.carpinteria.ca.us, on Government Access Television Channel 21 or by logging into the Zoom webinar. Additional details and numerous ways for the public to provide comments can be found at https://bit.ly/3YyX5ky. Comments posted on social media will not be provided to council members.

Outgoing Carpinteria City Councilmember Gregg Carty was honored for his 16 years of Council service at the Dec. 12 meeting. Prior to his election to the City Council in 2006, Carty was appointed to two four-year terms on the Architectural Review Board. During Carty’s tenure on the Council, he served two terms as Mayor. He dedicated himself to many committees and boards over the last 16 years, and advocated and acted to support local businesses and to protect local housing stock. Carty cited one of his proudest achievements on the Council as the collaboration with the Land Trust of Santa Barbara County to preserve the Rincon Bluffs Preserve.

At its Dec. 12 meeting, the City of Carpinteria swore in new and re-elected councilmembers then selected a new Mayor and Vice-Mayor to serve two-year terms. New councilmember Mónica Solórzano joined the council, while incumbents Roy Lee and Al Clark returned to the council. Former Vice Mayor Al Clark was selected to be Mayor, and Councilmember Natalia Alarcon was selected to be Vice Mayor. The City of Carpinteria’s Mayor and Vice Mayor are nominated and voted upon by councilmembers.