Greetings!
Thanks to our friend, Anne Seeley, of Concerned Citizens For Santa Rosa, for her analysis of this week's City Council Agenda.
Friends: There is a 3PM Study Session before the 4PM meeting.
3.1 Groundwater Sustainability Agency Formation Update This might sound esoteric, but it will mean a lot in the future for what water comes out of your faucet.
The State mandates that certain watersheds of concern will create oversight agencies to protect groundwater. There are 3 in Sonoma County: Santa Rosa Plain, Petaluma and Sonoma Valley.
The way the State Board has this set up, the agencies will be lead by elected leaders from the cities and from the county. There are some (such as the Sonoma County Water Coalition) who believe alternatives would better serve the area, especially since almost all city water users are served by water obtained from the Russian River. A lot of rural well-owners will not be represented and/or part of the discussion. This will be an interesting staff report. See below.
https://santa-rosa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4735498&GUID=A926516C-2CD6-4DD1-BC32-FB5365234788 Groundwater Agency
4PM Meeting
Consent
12.3 Ordinance Adoption regarding a change in zoning policy for certain designations of land use. This is one of the votes (along with the next two items) to prepare for the annexation of Roseland, according to the plan approved by the Council last week. These are confirmatory votes.
https://santa-rosa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4736401&GUID=2FB3B677-0921-432F-945F-3D6547602E52 Zoning Requirements
12.4 Ordinance Adoption regarding reclassification of 190 properties in the Roseland Area/Sebastopol Road Specific Plan (RASR Plan).
https://santa-rosa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4734995&GUID=72420AD5-8706-4330-90FE-004475A2DD84 Prezoning 190 Properties
12.5 Prezoning of 1606 Properties in the RASR Specific Plan area
Here is a map of the proposed project area: http://ci.santa-rosa.ca.us/doclib/Documents/Location Map.pdf
Report
14.1 Extension of the Proclamation of Homeless Emergency The Council first voted to Declare a Homeless Emergency on 8/9/16 and the declaration must be reviewed and renewed every 30 days in order for many types of funding and programs to be possible.
https://santa-rosa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4738971&GUID=B2FFA5B8-8832-412B-934C-A14369DC3E77 Homeless Emergency
Staff also recommend sending letters to our Congressional representatives seeking support for change to the of Continuum of Care Care Funding Formula
https://santa-rosa.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4738975&GUID=4E38E645-42D9-464E-887D-223673D3610E Continuum of Care.
20. Upcoming meetings
See you there! Anne
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