Flutterby™! : Light Reading: The Petaluma AIA SDAT proposal

Charlene and I know how to have a date night. Last night we go mid-way through the AIA SDAT proposal for Petaluma. I think we just got to the juicy bits, the economics and financing, but we've got a couple of pages of notes up to that point. I have questions. Next up I want to find someone to help us read AB 2097 that would supposedly "prohibit a public agency from imposing any minimum automobile parking requirement on any residential, commercial, or other development project ... that is located within 1/2 mile of public transit", but there are a *ton* of different interpretations of it, especially because it sits inside a lot of legislative and judicial context, such that it's actually pretty watered down and appears to really only remove parking restrictions from predominantly subsidized housing near extremely busy transit stops.

It'll be interesting to see how staff, and to a lesser extent the Planning Commission, interpret this, and what legal challenges this will lead to.

Anyway, spending our evenings doing this sort of things is a reminder of how much goes into understanding how a city operates, and it's pretty amazing that we expect Council and the Mayor's position to be volunteer.