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Council advances zoning change to permit residential care facilities by right; approves consent calendar including Fire Station contract
Summary
After a lengthy debate over definitions, parking minimums and downtown impacts, Petaluma’s council voted to introduce a zoning‑text amendment to streamline residential care facilities (RCFs) and approved the consent calendar (items 1–8), including awarding a Fire Station No. 1 construction contract amid questions about contingency funding.
The Petaluma City Council on Jan. 26 approved an ordinance introduction to amend zoning rules to implement the housing element program that streamlines permitting for residential care facilities and establishes parking standards, and it also approved its consent calendar — including awarding the Fire Station No. 1 construction contract to Mid State Construction.
Principal Planner Emmanuel Ursu told the council the ordinance collapses multiple state licensing categories into a single local definition of “residential care facility” for zoning purposes, allows such facilities by right in residential zones and in many mixed‑use or commercial zones (subject to site plan and architectural review in designated frontage areas), and adds specific parking requirements. “This…
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