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Residents urge limits on hotels and commercial uses in Sonoma mixed-use general plan update
Summary
Public comments at the council meeting raised concerns about proposed revisions to the mixed-use definition in the general plan. Speakers asked that hotels be removed from the mixed-use category, urged creation of an explicit affordable-housing category, and raised traffic and evacuation concerns if large commercial development is allowed.
Three members of the public used the council's public-comment period to press the city and council to narrow proposed mixed-use definitions in the general plan update and to limit commercial development in a residential neighborhood.
An unnamed resident said she had spoken with planning staff and described the proposed mixed-use definition as "too broad." "I would like to see the hotel category removed because it's a special category. It requires a number of preconditions and a number of conditions after it's completed," she said. She also asked for a separate category for affordable housing and urged…
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