Greetings!
Our friend, Anne Seeley, of Concerned Citizens for Santa Rosa, has again provided an excellent summary of this week's City Council agenda:
Friends: At 3 PM there will be a Joint Study Session with the Planning Commission:
4.1 General Plan Update Work Plan. The City soon will be putting out an request for Proposals (RFP) for a consultant to help update the General Plan (GP).
The last GP, 'Santa Rosa 2035' was adopted in 2009, and a lot has changed, including the need to address post-fire recovery, the challenge of Climate Change, Homelessness in Santa Rosa, the impact of cannabis business activity on industrial and commercial land and the annexation of Roseland.
4PM Council Meeting
9.1 Santa Rosa's City Attorney will report to the Council on rewards in court cases as well as ongoing legal battles. a report the Council asked for on a quarterly basis.
15.1 The Council will consider a proposal to amend the Santa Rosa Code, adding a Housing Anti-Discrimination Chapter. This would prohibit rental housing discrimination against people using rental subsidies issued through governmental and non-profit agencies.
5PM Public Hearings
16.1 Preferential Parking Permit Plan. Parking on certain streets in the West End neighborhood has become constrained. Some business owners have asked the City to offer a Preferential Permit Parking Program that would allow employees of eligible businesses to park on streets in designated areas beyond the posted parking limits.
16.2 The Annual Santa Rosa Fire Department Weed Abatement Program Report. This is required the hear objections to the costs of requirements to abate weeds and rubbish.
To check out further details yourself, enter srcity.org in your web browser, then click Government, then City Council and then look for the date of the agenda in the long list of agendas. For Mac users, press your Control key and select the date 8/13/19 to be a new tab. In that tab you'll see the whole agenda. Use the same procedure (for Mac users) to open up links within the agenda For others types of computers, I don't know your procedures.
See you there!
Anne
