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Council clears path to streamline design review, assigns major reviews to planning commission
5419733 · July 17, 2025
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Summary
Council voted unanimously to amend the Sonoma Municipal Code to clarify review authority and simplify design-review procedures, with planning commission to review major design-review applications going forward.
The City Council unanimously approved ordinances amending Title 19 of the Sonoma Municipal Code to clarify which bodies review design and historic preservation items and to simplify the design-review process for applicants. The council took the votes after the Planning Commission recommended the changes earlier this year.
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