Cannabis Program

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

Downtown Station Area Specific Plan Update

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.

Process Improvement Action Plan

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

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

Southeast Greenway

UpDowntown

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

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