Article: SANTA MARIA NOW SANTA BARBARA COUNTY'S MOST POPULOUS CITY

The city of Santa Maria issued the following news release:

With an estimated 90,204 residents as of January 1, 2006, the City of Santa Maria has for the first time become the most populous city in Santa Barbara County.

The California Department of Finance, which informed the City this week, is to post its annual City and County population information on its website next week.

"Santa Maria has robust growth and is creating jobs, so a couple years ago I and others predicted that we'd reach this population milestone about now. And it happened during our centennial year of 2005," Mayor Larry Lavagnino said. "With growth comes challenges, and we're carefully preparing our next two year budget to ...

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