Convert your short term rentals to regular rentals for those displaced by the fires. You know what to do.

Those were market rate houses, that would not have helped the housing situation of the low or even medium income. That is why we organized and stopped it.

Letter by Vice Mayor Patrick Slayter regarding the Pine Grove Square concept
Sent to the Sonoma West Times & News,
in part as a reply to this letter, published in the Times and News
Reprinted...

I was at the meeting, too. What the council asked the consultants to study a project that accommodated the project's parking demand. So that would replace the current general use parking spaces.
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I went to the discussion last evening and was surprised at the number of people who interpreted "replacing the parking lot" as losing parking. I thought the Council made it clear that they wanted to...

I think the article is pretty good for the old snooze. How long has rose been writing? Lots of details, a provocative slant, where do you want to go? Money is powerful and is moving in. Mcds,...

At the December 20 City Council meeting, the City Council discussed actions to address housing availability and affordability. The Council created a special housing subcommittee to conduct a...

The thing I most dislike about Rent Control is that it creates a very contentious relationship between tenant and landlord. When I was preparing for the City Council mtg last night on rent...

this part of the argument I never understood. It's like saying that giving everyone health care will lead to a shortage of doctors. Uh, in that example, you either have to have more doctors or accept...

An idea that I put forward during the Sebastopol City Council forums is to allow homeowners to amortize payment of the city's impact fees for a second dwelling [approximately $20,000] on their water...

This was all inevitable because the home builders all went bust in 2006-7 when the housing market tanked.
For all of this time, there has been almost no new home construction but of course Sonoma...

37567Anyone familiar with this? Apparently not, or perhaps few care enough to comment..... thank you to those who did. Interestingly, the small handful of folks who spoke up don't appear to be in...

You give a glowing review but do you realize what is happening? Long time residents and people who grew up in Sebastopol are being forced out by those that consider $600k a moderately priced home.