City of Capitola

City Council

Thursday, September 10, 2026, 6:00 PM

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How to take part

Show up: Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM, City Council Chambers, 420 Capitola Avenue, Capitola. California's open-meetings law (the Brown Act) gives you the right to speak on agenda items. Remote-participation links, when offered, are on the agenda.

Write in: citycouncil@cityofcapitola.gov (from the address this meeting's agenda gives for public comment)

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What's being decided

  • Major· Jobs & local economy, Planning & development
    Direction on restaurant and marketplace proposals for Capitola Wharf

    The council would hear an update on the Request for Proposals for a restaurant and commercial marketplace project on the Capitola Wharf and tell staff how to proceed on future wharf uses.

  • Major· Transportation & traffic, Taxes, fees & budget, Environment & climate
    Choose repair approach for Stockton Avenue Bridge deck

    The council would receive an update on bridge preservation work, community outreach and the annual Soquel Creek inspection, then decide whether staff should keep developing the Caltrans-recommended polyester concrete overlay and return with a revised funding request, or instead pursue a lower-cost methacrylate deck treatment as an interim fix.

  • Major· Planning & development, Housing, Jobs & local economy
    Zoning rewrite on community benefit incentives, ADUs and body art studios

    The council would introduce an ordinance that replaces Chapter 17.88 on incentives for community benefits, moves village hotel incentives into a new Chapter 17.90, amends the accessory dwelling unit rules in Chapter 17.74, repeals the tattoo establishment chapter and adds body art studio rules to the mixed use, commercial/industrial, supplemental regulations and glossary chapters. It would also send the changes to the California Coastal Commission for Local Coastal Program certification and approve a policy for selecting body art service providers.

  • Major· Taxes, fees & budget
    Decide how to spend $1 million wharf storm damage insurance settlement

    The council would receive the Fiscal Year 2025-26 revenue and expenditure update and direct how to use the $1 million insurance settlement received for repairs from the 2023 Wharf storm damage.

  • Notable· Public safety, Taxes, fees & budget· Consent agenda
    Accept $57,881 state alcohol enforcement grant for police

    The council would accept a $57,881 Alcohol Policing Partnership Grant from the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and raise both revenues and spending in the 2026-27 General Fund budget by that amount.

  • Notable· Government & transparency· Consent agenda
    Make a city rule permanent by deleting its expiration date

    The council would adopt an ordinance amending Chapter 8.40 of the Capitola Municipal Code to remove the expiration language in Section 8.40.150(G).

  • Notable· Water & utilities, Transportation & traffic
    Direction on shortened Monterey Avenue utility undergrounding project

    The council would receive updated information on a potentially shortened Rule 20A project to place utility lines underground along Monterey Avenue and may give staff direction. Continued from the August 27, 2026, meeting.

  • Minor· Government & transparency· Consent agenda
    City to issue election district report from its demographer

    Staff and the city's hired demographer, National Demographics Corporation, would issue and post a report required under state Elections Code Section 21130(f).

Everything else on the agenda