All Electric Reach Code

Page describing city efforts and code regarding all-electric reach code for new residential housing construction.

By-Right Housing

Cannabis Program

View the city's ordinances on cultivation, support uses, and dispensaries of medical cannabis.

Comprehensive Cost of Services Study & Fee Update

Page updating how the Planning and Economic Development department assess, ascertains, and collects fees for services for development and projects.

Downtown Station Area Specific Plan

Updated in 2020, the Downtown Station Area Specific Plan covers planning and design zoning for areas in the Downtown area, including areas in, around, and the broader portions of Courthouse Square and Railroad Square.

Downtown Station Area Historic Resource Evaluation

A component of the Downtown Station Area Specific Plan, the Historic Resource Evaluation is a yearlong process to discover which structures within the Downtown corridor may qualify as historic.

Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District

The City is exploring the creation of an to allow funds generated to by the EIFD for reinvestment into a designated area in Downtown.

House Santa Rosa

Housing Action Plan

To address the City's ongoing unmet housing needs and to implement the City's General Plan Housing Element, the City prepared the Housing Action Plan. Find out more about the effort to create an environment where the City could enable development of the housing stock needed to address the current housing crisis.

Local Hazard Mitigation Plan

This plan will provide the City’s framework to mitigate local risks to natural hazards and plan for a resilient future. Learn more and read the final document.

Missing Middle Housing

The purpose of the Missing Middle Housing Initiative is to amend or create policies, standards and fees to accommodate by-right construction, replacement or conversion of standard single-family homes and remodels to produce missing middle infill housing. The Initiative is intended to increase the production of housing units of varying types and affordability, and in areas currently planned for Medium Density (8-18 units per acre) or Medium Low Density (8-13 units per acre) residential development.

Parklets

The Parklets program allows businesses, with the proper permits, to construct temporary outdoor seating within the public right-of-way, often parking spaces, so that they may serve their patrons. This page goes over the program in general and the requirements to apply for permit(s).

Process Improvement Action Plan

The Management Partners report findings and recommendations are a significant step toward achieving process improvements in the Community Development Department.

Renewal Enterprise District JPA

Resilient City Development Measures

Beginning on the evening of October 8, 2017, and continuing for days thereafter, a series of wildfire events damaged or destroyed thousands of residential and commercial structures within the City of Santa Rosa. On October 9, 2017, the City Manager, in his capacity as Director of Emergency Services, proclaimed the existence of local emergency in the City, which was ratified by the City Council on October 13, 2017. Prior to the wildfires, the Council had identified “housing for all” as a priority due to the City’s ongoing, unmet housing needs. As a result of both the devastation of the wildfires and the previously existing significant shortage of housing, the Council has stated the need for immediate measures to address both housing and the rebuilding of uses such as lodging and child care facilities Citywide. The proposed Resilient City Development Measures were prepared to facilitate these priorities.

Roseland Area Annexation

Resource guide for residents and businesses included in the Roseland Annexation

Santa Rosa Forward

Link will take you to a new page about efforts from the City for its General Plan Update, scheduled to be completed by 2023.

Short-Term (Vacation) Rentals

The City of Santa Rosa is considering an ordinance to better regulate rentals, where people stay for 30 days or fewer.

Small Cells

Southeast Greenway

UpDowntown

Addressing time, certainty, and cost to develop housing downtown.

Vehicles Miles Traveled

The City is developing a new policy to meet State requirements set by Senate Bill (SB) 743, which changed the focus of how transportation impacts are analyzed.

Water Demand Offset Policy and Fees

City of Santa Rosa proposed ordinance that would add a water offset fee to major development only during severe drought conditions.

Winter Holiday Construction Moratorium

Maps and descriptions of annual construction moratoriums in select retail locations during November and December. The moratorium is designed to alleviate impacts from higher-than-usual holiday traffic.

Older Initiatives