Planning commission recommends Plumas Street overlay to bar new vape shops and off‑sale liquor

The Yuba City Planning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council adopt Zoning Code Amendment 25‑01 and Rezone 25‑02 to create an X‑28 Downtown Plumas Street overlay. The proposed overlay would prohibit new tobacco and vape retailers and new retail stores authorized to sell beer, wine, or distilled spirits for off‑premise consumption consistent with California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Type 20 or 21 licenses on designated properties along Plumas Street, Forbes Avenue, Scott Street and Center Street within the downtown Business Improvement District from Calloway Avenue/State Highway 20 to Bridge Street.

Staff described the overlay as a planning tool to place additional use restrictions on a geographically limited area without changing citywide zoning. The draft text provides definitions for smoke shops and vape shops and creates a nonconforming‑use provision so existing businesses…