‘No soul’: Controversial luxury hotel could rise in California beach town

It’s just before noon on a cloudless October weekday and Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone is in reset mode.

Weekend crowds that come to the popular converted industrial neighborhood to eat, drink and shop are replaced by the sounds of nearby white foam crashing onto the shore, broken up every so often by the approaching rumble and piercing mechanical screech of train brakes.

It’s nearly perfect…

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