Sunday, April 2, 2023

Can you say "more housing"?


Petaluma is planning to build at least 1,910 new housing units over the course of the next 8 years. It's in our new Housing Element for the updated General Plan.









 

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

A positive vision for the future of Petaluma

 


City Thread introduction

 City Thread is a consultant that will help Petaluma develop a strategy and build the community consensus necessary to quickly build out an interconnected bicycle path network in Petaluma. I'm excited about what we are about to accomplish with City Thread.



A First Friday at Five bike ride....fun!

 


A quick built traffic circle in Petaluma

 The City is working with interested members of the public and with Safe Streets Petaluma to implement a quick build program that would allow members of the public to suggest street safety improvement and to have them quickly implemented with temporary structures that would allow for the demonstration and testing of the safety measure. If it turns out to be a good improvement to the neighborhood then a similar permanent installation can be built.



Thursday, August 25, 2022

The beginning of a safe streets for everyone future

Fun to watch some of the new safe street changes going in around town in a couple of locations. The idea is to slow down cars and make it safer and inviting for bicycles, pedestrians and other folks to also use the streets. Even though I am a casual bicycle rider, some of the new lane configurations along Petaluma Blvd. South had me confused. So I got two other serious bike experts to come along and help me answer some of the questions people have about how the new lane striping is meant to be used, what's finished, what isn't done yet, what seems to be working and what might not yet be working with the street design changes. It's a work in progress, for sure.




Friday, July 1, 2022

 The fairgrounds advisory committee is meeting and formulating a recommendation to the Petaluma City Council as to how to evolve our fairgrounds property into the future. I got to give a short presentation and give some of my own thoughts to the committee panel. Here is the short talk that I gave: