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On Tuesday, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors reviewed these proposed changes to the hazards section of the county’s Local Coastal Program: People who build on areas of the coast…
A cabin demoted to a storage shed. Three shipping containers that cost more than $3,500 to permit.
A 1st District ruling sets statewide precedent on California’s price-gouging law and clears the way for hundreds of Santa Rosa residents to keep their post-emergency rents intact. A California appellate court has barred Santa Rosa mobilehome park owners from raising rents to make up for annual increases they couldn’t impose during the multi-year wildfire state…
Residents from three Petaluma parks flooded Monday’s city council meeting to defend Jody Johnson, who has led their fight against major rent increases for three years On Friday afternoon, residents of Youngstown Mobile Home Park found an unusual document on their doorsteps. Hand-delivered — reportedly by the park’s own manager — the packet appeared to…
The morning starts the way county meetings often do — polite, almost ceremonial.
At the August 20 Sonoma City Council meeting, residents spoke out about a proposal to rezone parts of the historic Sebastiani Winery property from agriculture to a new “Sonoma mixed…
Wednesday’s Sonoma City Council meeting turned tense as residents crowded into the chamber to challenge what they saw as insider influence and a lack of transparency in the city’s General…
California has just drastically changed the rules around building new homes, rolling back parts of a controversial state law known as CEQA — short for the California Environmental Quality Act.…
A process that will shape Sonoma County for decades quietly launched this month, and if you blink, you might miss it. Sonoma County’s general plan—the blueprint guiding everything from housing…
In the wake of the March 1 sewage spill into the Russian River (about half the amount of liquid in an Olympic-size pool) and worries about agricultural runoff, I’ve had…