City Council Says No to Bricks Cafe Dance Permit

I'm glad the city council made this decision. While I wish no evil against the owner of this club, one must remember that residents and hotel proprieters and their guest have rights too--such as getting a good night's sleep.

Santa Barbara is a city where people live. It isn't a bar. Unless these bars want to do business in an industrial area with no residences or hotels, then they are going to have to suck it up and deal with neighbors who want to actually enjoy their own homes, and visitors who actually want to get some sleep without listening to pounding music or dealing with drunks relieving themselves on their lawns and throwing up on the sidewalks.

Whatphotosb, if you want to live in a bar, go move into one. The people who live downtown are standing up and saying no more, so deal with it.

Whatphotosb: What facts am I missing? The damage doesn't end at the noise generated from the music itself, but the hordes of drunks who wander onto private property and make noise and use people's lawns as toilets.

There is also the danger of the mob mentality that occurs when too many drunks gather in one place, and when I say "one place", I mean the collective place of lower state street.

Also, the residents and perhaps (I may stand to be corrected) the hotel proprietors were there first, so by all that's right and moral, their rights come first.

I find it interesting that based on other posts you've written, you rail against the decadence of our culture--a point with we you and I agree--yet based on this post you give the bar scene a free pass on this.

You also talk at length about the gang problem. Back about 1996 or 1997 (I forget the year but will never forget the incident) I was on duty as a security guard and had I started my round about a minute earlier I would have walked right into the line of fire of the Lot 10 fatal gang-related shooting. The men involved had come out of a nearby bar.

In short, the gang problem, decadence and excessive drinking are all part of the same root problem and that is why hotel people and residents are saying "no" to the endless spread of the bar scene.