🗞️ Riverside News- November 7, 2025
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City Council will place a measure on the March 5 ballot to create a 10% tax on the sale of retail cannabis in the city.
Potential new regulations for keeping chickens in residential neighborhoods, renaming a park for Fire Captain Tim Strack, and approving designs for a replacement building for Magnolia Presbyterian Church are all up for discussion this week in City Hall.
Council will hear the latest updates for the Mission Inn Festival of Lights and receive legal counsel for a lawsuit filed against the city by the Historic Mission Inn Corporation.
With only three meetings scheduled, one would expect a quiet week at City Hall, but a proposal to reduce the number of monthly City Council meetings and an ethics complaint against Councilmember Cervantes are likely to generate some noise.
Councilmembers Conder and Hemenway are preparing to recommend the Riverside Transmission Reliability Project Working Group be allowed more time to secure federal funding to underground the project.
Council will review the latest proposed retail cannabis business permit procedure guidelines, consider approving a $2.3 million agreement for the Arlington Park Pickleball Complex Project, and adopt the Citywide Community Engagement Policy and Toolkit.
Council will consider a 'security pilot program' to expand contracted services aimed at keeping the Galleria, Auto Mall, Plaza, and Downtown business areas safer.
It will be a slow week for Council, commissions, and committees. City Council will review $2.87m in street improvements for Wards 3, 6, and 7.
City Council doesn't meet this week. Other committees meet to discuss the reallocation of Measure Z funds to better address homelessness, plans and budgets for RPU infrastructure upgrades, and design plans for the renovation of the Museum of Riverside.
City Council to finalize RPU rate increases, consider new contractor requirements, a small-business COVID recovery grant program, and a 247-unit apartment complex on University Ave.
City Council to review the City Clerk's office performance and move funds to establish the Department of Housing and Human Services.
City Council is back after a two-week hiatus. Council will discuss discontinuing RPD's Crime Free Multi-Housing Program and a potential agreement to bring autonomous vehicle manufacturing to Riverside.
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