Downtown project, planning changes subject of meeting

<p>The Petaluma Planning Commission will meet Tuesday, Sept. 8 to discuss a mixed-use housing and retail proposal for Petaluma Boulevard North and to consider changes to the planning process requested by the City Council.</p><!-- Nothing to do. The paragraph has already been output --><p>The commission will review the North River Landing project, which calls for apartments, retail space and assisted-living units on the former Silva’s Appliances site, between the Boulevard and the Petaluma River.</p><p>The commission will also consider changes to the city’s zoning code that would specify its new responsibility to oversee design-review issues after a previous board was dissolved this summer.</p><p>The council combined the duties of SPARC and the commission, but a lawsuit filed by three commissioners claimed the city did not first run the proposal by the commission as required.</p><p>In the wake of the lawsuit, the council referred the matter back to the commission.</p><p>Tuesday’s meeting begins at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 11 English St.</p><p>— Argus-Courier</p>