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Council debates process for revising general plan amid one‑acre-lot dispute
Summary
Councilors discussed competing resolutions to reassess the general plan, the roles of planning and zoning versus a council-led resolution, and the need for professional facilitation and public participation to ease community divisions over lot-size and development policy.
Council considered two competing resolutions (noted in discussion as Resolution 2026-08) to initiate a review of the city’s general plan and clarifying whether the planning commission or the city council should drive the process.
Several councilors argued a professional facilitator and structured public participation are needed to rebuild trust and to address topics residents say the plan mentions but did not deliver (for example, Main Street commercial vision and senior-center concepts). Engineering and planning perspectives (S9,S6) asked whether the general plan should remain advisory or be converted into prescriptive ordinances; staff advised that ordinance adoption would be a separate step that flows from a revised plan.
Council did not adopt a competing resolution at the meeting; staff will contact the state adviser (Kate) to determine notice and procedural requirements and report back.
