A small majority of those responding to this week’s online poll said that Petaluma should not go forward with an ordinance regulating gardens, marijuana or otherwise, in an effort to prevent fires. About 56 percent believed the city should not move forward and about 41 percent believed the opposite. About [...]

The general sentiment in this week’s online poll was against new taxes of any kind. The majority of those responding to an online poll said they did not plan to vote for Gov. Jerry Brown’s sales tax on the November ballot. The same went for a competing state tax measure [...]

About 85 percent of those responding to an Argus-Courier online poll thought that Water Street should be restricted to pedestrian use. A little under 12 percent supported a recent propopsal to reopen the street to through traffic and add about 8 parking spaces in light of a road diet that [...]

The majority of those responding to an Argus-Courier online poll, about 53 percent, said that Petaluma should ban the use of personal fireworks. About 47 percent said the city should not ban fireworks use, while less than onpercent wasn’t sure. Here were the comments. —— “Cost of policing, pollution of [...]

Most people responding to the Argus-Courier’s online poll this week thought that if SMART train installs a second station in Petaluma, it should be at the originally proposed location of Corona Road and North McDowell Boulevard. About  34 percent thought it should be at another site that SMART appears to [...]

The majority of those responding to this week’s Argus-Courier online poll about the sales tax increase that the Petaluma City Council is  currently considering, about 64 percent, said that they did not favor a sales tax increase of any kind. The next highest percent favored a half-cent sales tax hike, [...]

The majority of those responding to this week’s Argus-Courier online poll said that Petaluma should pass an ordinance banning smoking within 20 feet of a bus stop. More than 61 percent said Petaluma should pass a ban, while 35 percent believe it should not. About 3 percent weren’t sure. Here [...]

Most of the readers responding to this week’s online poll — 65.2 percent —  thought that the city should not change its sign ordinance to allow freeway facing signs on shopping centers along Highway 101. About 35 percent thought the city should change the ordinance, and 3.5 percent weren’t sure. [...]

The majority of those responding to this week’s online poll thought that the sickest redwood tree in Center Park should be removed while the other two should stay. About 13 percent thought all three trees should remain. About 24 percent thought all three trees should be removed. More than half [...]

The majority of people responding to this week’s online poll believed that the city should renew its $1-per-year lease with the Sonoma-Marin Fair on the 64-acre property it owns. Almost 86 percent of people believed it should do this, while about 12  percent believed it should not. Two percent weren’t [...]