City Agrees to Join Regional Driverless Shuttle Plan
Antioch, Calif., voted to join the public partnership that will use autonomous electric vehicles to shuttle passengers between public transportation and businesses. The four-city system will be operating by 2030.
May 14, 2021 • (TNS) Antioch, Calif., became the final of four East Contra Costa cities agreeing to work together to support a preliminary plan to use driverless electric cars to shuttle passengers to public transportation and business hubs.
The City Council on Tuesday voted 4 to 1, with Councilwoman Tamisha Torres-Walker abstaining, to support the initial public-private partnership model for Glydways Inc. to build a multimillion-dollar micro transit network in East Contra Costa. The planned system would complement current bus and rail services in the region and be fully operational by 2030.
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Antioch City Council passes police reform package
By Chris Campos article
ANTIOCH, Calif. - Police body cameras are part of a reform package endorsed by the Antioch City Council following a marathon 7.5-hour meeting Friday night.
Following a delayed public revelation of the in-custody death of Angelo Quinto in December and another in-custody death Wednesday, Mayor Lamar Thorpe announced a police reform program that he brought before the council in a special meeting. It s been a pretty turbulent week in the city of Antioch, Thorpe noted at the open of the meeting.
The mayor offered seven reform proposals to the council including: Mental health crisis response, officer training, demilitarization of police, bodycams and dashcams, independent review of complaints, hiring and screening and public notification for major incidents.
Antioch temporarily halts new retail cannabis businesses [East Bay Times]
Jan. 27 To avoid saturating the market, Antioch has put a temporary halt to approving new retail cannabis businesses.
The City Council on Tuesday passed an urgency ordinance that will keep the ban in effect at least 45 days.
Antioch already has approved five such dispensaries and there’s another one that’s almost completed the permit process. Four are in the city’s northwestern green zone where such businesses are allowed and another is in the Wilbur corridor, another cannabis-allowed zone.
Mayor Lamar Thorpe, who asked for the emergency ordinance, said it’s needed to give the city’s cannabis committee time to consider other options, such as creating a new overlay district where cannabis retail could operate.