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05/17/2023
The San Juan Bautista City Council approved a $18.7 million water agreement with the city of Hollister. City Manager Don Reynolds announced that the project to divert the city’s wastewater to the Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant in Hollister is firmly on track.

04/19/2023
In a reversal following public comments from divided retail business owners and residents, the council rescinded a decision to remove all of San Juan Bautista’s parklets by April 28 and voted instead on a motion to keep them through the end of 2023.

03/24/2023
In a surprise move at its March 21 meeting, the City Council ordered all the downtown Third Street parklets to be removed by April 28. The resolution originally allowed for restaurants and bars to keep their parklets.

02/02/2023
On Jan. 31, the San Juan Bautista City Council approved a bond for its wastewater project, filled vacancies on the Planning Commission and reviewed its transportation and connectivity plan.

10/10/2022
San Juan Bautista council candidates Leslie Q. Jordan, Jackie Morris-Lopez and E.J. Sabathia discuss development and the problems of disrepair in the historic downtown.

09/21/2022
At their monthly meeting on Sept. 20, the San Juan Bautista City Council took a step back on three issues: road repair, a fireworks prohibition and, most significantly, the redrawing of sphere of influence and urban growth boundaries.

06/20/2022
A contentious joint session of the San Juan Bautista City Council and the Planning Commission on June 13 was intended to have the public respond to proposed city growth boundaries. Instead, the proceedings ground to a halt when two council members left and the meeting ended for lack of a quorum.

06/21/2021
In a move intended to help residents reduce noise from Highway 156, the San Juan Bautista City Council on June 15 unanimously approved an ordinance to allow fences of up to eight feet tall in adjacent homes.

04/06/2021
The owner of the historic Casa Rosa building failed to persuade the San Juan Bautista City Council to waive a requirement to provide additional parking or pay a $25,000 fee.