Lodge, Sheila, Mayor
Person
Biography
Lodge was born at home on her parents’ dairy farm in Arcadia. She is a lifelong Californian except for 2 1/2 years in Annapolis, MD, where she taught school and did social work. She returned to California in 1950 and came to Santa Barbara in 1952.
Lodge served on the Santa Barbara City Planning Commission, 1973-75; the City Council, 1975-81; and as mayor, 1981-93. An incurable public policy wonk, since 2009, she’s back on the Planning Commission where she started her civic life in 1973.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Uncommonplace American Town Oral History Collection
Collection — Box: AR-2020-004
Identifier: AR-2020-004
Abstract
The City of Santa Barbara, California, became the community that it is through planning. In her book, Santa Barbara: An Uncommonplace American Town, former Mayor Sheila Lodge documents the many battles it sometimes took, the unanticipated events, and the process that was developed to make the critical decisions necessary to guide development of Santa Barbara over the course of 170 years.
The Uncommonplace American Town Oral History Collection...
Dates:
2003 - 2018