2026 Ventura & Santa Barbara County Measures: What They Actually Do
We take all 14 local measures on your 2026 ballot in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties by how you'd pay for them: property taxes for a water bond, four school and college bonds, and a parcel tax; sales taxes in Oxnard, Santa Maria, and Carpinteria; hotel taxes in Simi Valley and Guadalupe; and three that fit no group, in Guadalupe and Isla Vista. Find out whether each one does what it says on the ballot, what it would do to you, your business, and your community, and what you can do about it.
Why does United Water say its $350 million bond pays for work that has to happen whether it passes…
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