The City Council of Lafayette is the city's elected legislative body responsible for setting policy, adopting ordinances and budgets, and overseeing municipal services.
Don Tatzin Community Hall (Lafayette Library & Learning Center), 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, CA 94549 — Don Tatzin Community Hall (community hall / main meeting room)
Second and fourth Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m.
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Community CenterCity Council17d agoFebruary 24, 2026
Community Center and Recreation Facilities Planning
Parks Director Jonathan presented detailed assessments of the community center and park priorities. The community center building is at the end of its useful life with roof and HVAC replacement estimated at $3-4 million. Three scenarios were presented: maintain current facility, expand on-site, or pursue a hybrid model with a downtown satellite. Council strongly favored exploring a downtown community center location, though acknowledged the challenge of finding suitable parcels given housing opportunity site designations. The discussion emphasized that a distributed model with some services downtown and some at the existing site could work. Park priorities include athletic fields (structural shortage, no adult sports), bike park, off-leash dog area, downtown parks, and the Hamlin Nature Park. The Olympic Boulevard staging area lease between county flood control and the park district is expiring, presenting an opportunity for dog park or pump track use. Council renamed the third priority from 'Fiscal Sustainability' to planning and financing recreational needs, making this a major new council priority for 2026-27.
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Measure HCity Council17d agoFebruary 24, 2026
Fiscal Sustainability and Measure H Revenue
Assistant City Manager Tracy Robinson provided a fiscal update. Measure H Citizens Oversight Committee will hold its first meeting March 2nd. The development impact fee study is underway. The half-cent sales tax (Measure H) is generating approximately $2.8 million annually. Federal cutbacks have no direct city impact yet but downstream effects from county budget pressures could affect the city's ability to pass future measures. The city's deferred maintenance need is approximately $855,000 annually, about half currently supported by Measure H which sunsets in about six years. The county's proposed sales tax increase could reduce appetite for future local measures. Council discussed that fiscal sustainability has become more operational now that Measure H provides near-term stability, and agreed to shift the third priority focus to recreation.
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M3 StudyCity Council17d agoFebruary 24, 2026
Multimodal Transportation Planning Portfolio
Transportation Planner Patrick presented a comprehensive portfolio of transportation studies and construction projects advancing multimodal access in downtown Lafayette. Construction projects include the BART Town Center/Bike Station, Connecting Lafayette (School Street Class 1 facility), and Aqueduct Pathway. Planning efforts include the M3 (Mount Diablo multimodal mobility) study with a 20-year vision, BART Station Access study for MTC TOC policy compliance, Downtown Parking Management study, right-turn-on-red restrictions analysis, and Moraga Road redesign concepts. Patrick proposed forming a multimodal mobility advisory committee to coordinate across all studies. Mayor Anduri strongly advocated for protected bikeways connecting each city quadrant to downtown as a guiding principle. The CCTA smart signals project beginning construction summer 2026 will upgrade all signals on Moraga Road and Mount Diablo Boulevard. Council directed staff to keep protected bikeways as a council directive even though the bikeways master plan update cannot be completed this fiscal year.
Staff presented updates on downtown development projects. Objective design standards for downtown buildings are being revised after January council feedback and are expected for adoption in spring 2026. The 949 Moraga affordable housing project with SAHA has items going to council and a joint DRC-Planning Commission meeting. The Disposition and Development Agreement is nearly ready. De Silva property owners remain interested in a housing project and want to incorporate their constrained north-side parcel. The Plaza Way consolidated parking lot vision was declared infeasible due to state law changes affecting building removal, but land use restrictions and design guidelines remain in place. Staff recommended removing this as an active subtask.
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FirewiseCity Council17d agoFebruary 24, 2026
Wildfire Prevention and Emergency Preparedness Update
Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Andy presented a comprehensive update on wildfire preparedness. Firewise communities grew 76% year-over-year to nearly 2,800 homes. Community Warning System signups surged. Staff training reached all employees. Council discussed evacuation route concerns including parking restrictions on red flag days, pre-staging traffic control devices, fuel breaks, fire detection technology (satellites), and NOAA weather radios. Council consolidated prior 9 subtasks by combining public education items, dropping completed tasks, and adding a new 'evacuation route hardening' outcome. The Emergency Preparedness Commission was empowered to lead community engagement. Insurance concerns were discussed but deemed largely outside city control. Council directed staff to evaluate parking on evacuation routes and explore pilot pre-staging of traffic control devices.
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BARTCity Council17d agoFebruary 24, 2026
BART Fiscal Crisis and Potential Orinda Station Closure
Council Member Wotherspoon reported on BART's board workshop regarding their severe fiscal crisis stemming from the pandemic's impact on ridership. BART faces a 30% structural deficit on a $1.235 billion budget, with approximately $376 million shortfall. Pre-pandemic, farebox revenue covered about 66% of budget; ridership has dropped by roughly half. A proposed closure of the Orinda BART station (originally planned for January 2027) has been pushed to fiscal year 2028. This is significant for Lafayette because 94% of Moraga riders use the Orinda station, and closure could push overflow into Lafayette's station and surrounding roads. BART's contingency plans include three phases of cuts if a sales tax ballot measure fails, with the worst case being complete cessation of passenger service. Council agreed to organize a special Tri-City meeting with BART presenting to Lafayette, Orinda, and Moraga together.
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PG&ECity Council17d agoFebruary 24, 2026
PG&E Wildfire Mitigation Technology Tour
The mayor and vice mayor toured PG&E's advanced testing facility in San Ramon, viewing self-insulating cables that can be strung across gorges in rural areas where undergrounding is impractical, mitigating wildfire risk. They observed testing of various apparatus designed to ensure safe, fire-resistant power infrastructure.
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Ordinance 700City Council17d agoFebruary 24, 2026
Electronic Filing of Campaign Disclosure Statements (Ordinance 700)
City Clerk Joanne Robbins presented Ordinance 700 to require electronic filing of campaign finance disclosure statements for candidates, elected officials, and committees receiving contributions or making expenditures of $2,000 or more per calendar year, as authorized by Government Code section 84615. The city already uses Granicus Disclosure Docs for Form 700 filings; expanding to campaign disclosures improves transparency, reduces staff time processing paper forms, and enhances public access to searchable campaign finance information. Paper filing accommodations for ADA and technical issues are included. Introduced unanimously and continued to next meeting.
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