With a unanimous vote backed up with expressions of gratitude, the Redding City Council accepted Bethel Church’s $500,000 gift—and the church’s promise to raise $740,000 more—to fund the highly effective Neighborhood Police Unit (NPU) for two more years. Councilwoman Julie… Continue Reading
The sale of the dilapidated and long-vacant former police station was approved Tuesday with a 4-0 vote by the Redding City Council. Equity Streams, a Redding firm that plans to transform the brick building and parking lot into a co-sharing… Continue Reading
Downtown Redding’s troubled Carnegie Park will become home to a food truck court under terms of a concession agreement approved Tuesday by a sharply divided City Council. A pair of 3-2 votes, with the first failing to delay the issue… Continue Reading
A pair of city-owned parking lots across from the former police station will remain city-owned at least for another year, a divided Redding City Council decided on Tuesday. The 3-1 vote, with Mayor Brent Weaver (who owns property a block… Continue Reading
A developer ready to start on a $20 million, 97-unit affordable housing complex came to the Redding City Council on Tuesday in search of a break on some $1.5 million in impact fees. A divided council voted 3-2 to send… Continue Reading
In the end, the water always finds a way to win. Regardless of what stands in its way, it will find its way back to the ocean. And sometimes, like it has in the past few weeks, it decides to… Continue Reading
It was only fitting that a Redding City Council meeting that started with an announcement of the Mayor’s Mountain Bike Challenge would speed along and cover a lot of ground. That was the case Tuesday as one of the first… Continue Reading
Redding’s mayor is big on mountain biking and he wants others, including riders from other parts of the state, to get in on the single-track fun. “We’re in a unique position,” Mayor Brent Weaver said of the network of trails… Continue Reading
There was a lot of talk about the glass being half full on Tuesday when the Redding Merchants Crime Watch met for the first time since Redding voters in November defeated Measure D, a proposed half-cent sales tax hike that… Continue Reading
The Redding City Council on Tuesday OK’d the spending of more than $1 million on various projects, contracts and city services and heard nary a peep, but a modest proposal to update the city flag at a cost of $2,500… Continue Reading
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