SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - After a roughly three-year process, the document that could reshape downtown Santa Barbara on the State Street corridor has been prepared.

At 153 pages along with many drawings, simulated pictures, and input from the community – the Create State - State Street Draft Master Plan is now in the hands of the Santa Barbara City Council.

It covers the entire downtown area from Gutierrez Street to Sola Street.

The project in part calls for a community-focused balance between pedestrian and vehicle access, including narrow travel lanes and a suggested speed for any type of vehicle of 20 miles per hour or less. The main road users will be transit, service vehicles, cyclists and emergency responders.

It does not clear call for cars to return to State Street for normal commuter patterns or to see the storefronts while driving by. The main corridors remain the cross streets along with Chapala St. and Anacapa St.

The sidewalks would be extended out creating more room for dining tables and pedestrians along with some vending carts.

Analysts say to make these changes would cost the city millions of dollars per block.

A city council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday at 2:00pm.

The council will be asked to review the plan, listen to the public, and decide if it wants to advance the plan or have changes made before any future steps take place.

(More details, photos and video will be added here later today.)

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By Betsy Klein, Kevin Liptak, CNN Politics

(CNN) – Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president among other charges. The 31-year-old made his first appearance in federal court on Monday. Investigators are examining a message alleged to be from the suspect.

President Donald Trump said in an interview he “wasn’t worried” there would be injuries after the sound of gunfire rang out, detailing how he and first lady Melania Trump realized the seriousness of the situation.

Meanwhile, the White House operations team, US Secret Service and leaders at the Department of Homeland Security will convene this week to discuss security protocol for major events involving Trump.

The White House declined to rule out operational changes to Donald Trump’s schedule following Saturday’s shooting, including the prospect of ensuring the president and Vice President JD Vance not attend events simultaneously.

The Administration sought to shift blame for a rise in political violence to Democrats, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt pointing to a long list of remarks from Democratic elected officials, while omitting incendiary rhetoric from Republicans and the president himself.

President Trump, who has frequently used inflammatory rhetoric against his political opponents, initially called for unity after the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday evening, but in an interview with CBS News on Sunday, he warned that Democrats’ “hate speech” is “very dangerous.”

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