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The council – which voted 4-1 with Councilmember Renee Contreras-DeLoach dissenting – approved $40,000 for an outside consultant to help create an overlay zone: which can direct certain aspects of development within specific neighborhoods, such as increasing or decreasing residential density, though the council noted they lean toward using it for the former purpose. 

Sen. Mike McGuire drew applause for speaking about efforts to move toward single-payer health care

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When the Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees convened the Dec. 14 meeting at which it would vote unanimously to enter into a secretive property...

Citizens for a Better Eureka plans to continue with CEQA lawsuits.

Councilmember Kati Moulton called for the process to rezone the former Jacobs Junior High campus to begin. “Let this tiny little piece stand on a foundation of community input from the beginning,” she said.

San Francisco’s state-mandated plan to raise building height limits to encourage housing production along transit corridors from the Sunset to the Richmond to the Marina came under...

A local opposition group, Citizens for a Better Eureka, sued the City under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), arguing that an addendum to the environmental impact report failed to analyze traffic impacts, and that providing affordable housing on these sites would replace City parking lots and result in congestion in the downtown area. However, Eureka concluded that the plan for housing would contribute to an overall decrease in vehicle miles traveled – thus reducing harmful emi...

“All of these projects are much more viable and much closer to being able to get funded with this designation,” Eureka City Manager Miles Slattery said.

More than six weeks after a newly formed LLC emerged seemingly out of nowhere to enter into a $6 million deal to acquire an 8.3-acre...