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The new draft General Plan elements would reduce maximum parking requirements in the most walkable parts of the city and eliminate parking minimums entirely where possible, alongside investing in alternative modes of transportation, such as the bus system and bicycle infrastructure. 

The General Plan, which will govern the next few decades of Arcata’s infrastructural policies – in many ways it determines what the city physically is – will now be discussed by the Arcata City Council, which will include several aspects they have yet to decide, such as inclusionary zoning and parking standards.

Editor: Six-story apartment buildings allowed in every single neighborhood in Arcata. No limit on how dense these apartments might be. Existing houses permitted for coffee...

The commissioners urged cutting several items for a litany of reasons including duplication with existing state laws, infeasibility and concern that implementing the recommendations would make development in Arcata prohibitively expensive.