Habitat for Humanity and local housing advocates urged the board to support Proposition 1 — a statewide bond for affordable and veteran housing — but abstentions left the board without the three votes needed and no county position was adopted.

Consultant Don Gilchrist told the committee Congress faces a short legislative window and partisan impasses that have delayed passage of the 21st Century Road to Housing bill and appropriations; he warned riders attached to transportation-housing funding could affect county priorities.

County planning staff told the Monosto commission that online pre-approved ADU plans are available, long-range planning will lose two positions amid budget shortfalls, a local-preference marketing approach was approved for market-rate housing, and staff will develop more ministerial permits; staff also said the Board will consider a first-phase prohibition on new onshore oil and gas wells on June 23.

The Board approved an ordinance-streamlining and housing-accommodation package to modernize permit processes and update open-space, density and commercial-depth rules; the board accepted several Montecito-specific recommendations and clarified 'primary street frontage' language for neighborhood-commercial zones.