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The city of Napa is inviting residents to share their input on the boundaries of new voting districts to guide local elections through the decade. As part of an education campaign for the redistricting project, Napa has launched an informational website that includes a worksheet for residents to describe the communities where they live. Information collected through the survey, combined with results of the 2020 U.S. Census, will shape the redrawing of the four districts each represented by City...

Changes to regulation of retail cannabis sales in the city of Napa must be made thoughtfully or risk threatening the viability of the city’s existing dispensaries, those businesses say. In February, Napa City Council voted unanimously to include Napa’s cannabis-selling ordinance on a list of six policy objectives to prioritize for 2021, according to Councilmember Beth Painter. The vote signals a relatively recent willingness on behalf of city officials to consider allowing recreationa...

Amid a drive by south Napa residents to block housing growth in their corner of the city, a member of the Ghisletta family has denied having any development project in the works for the lands that once hosted a dairy farm. Speaking to the Napa City Council last week, Adam Ghisletta firmly pushed back on what he described as speculation that his family would quickly seek to build homes on family-held property off Foster Road, in a grassy corridor with expansive valley views that has been the tar...

Napa’s city land-use authority will welcome two newcomers, while its longest-serving member is returning. The City Council on Tuesday night selected the Napa housing developer Bob Massaro to join the Planning Commission along with Ricky Hurtado, a council candidate in 2018. Massaro will serve a two-year term on the commission through the end of 2022, replacing Michael Murray who did not seek reappointment, while Hurtado will complete the year left in the term of Beth Painter, who served fi...