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100
This program is used by the Administrative Division to process invoices and manage financial transactions.
What is Eden?
100
Current Building Code in California
What is the 2022 California Building Code (Title 24)?
100
A rental of all or a portion of your home for less than 30 nights.
What is a short term rental?
100
The name of the City's economic development customer service program.
What is San Rafael GO?
100
A landlord must provide this to a tenant if they evict a tenant for a reason that's not the tenant's fault.
What is relocation assistance?
100
CEQA
What is the California Environmental Quality Act?
200
The document that must be signed by the City Manager and the City Attorney before a consultant begins work.
What is a professional services agreement?
200
The maximum slope of an accessible ramp.
What is 1:12?
200
Under this program, the City has closed 16 establishments and suspended one business.
What is the Massage Inspection Program?
200
EDSP
What is the City of San Rafael's 2023 Economic Development Strategic Plan?
200
The organization low-income tenants in Marin contact when they need legal advice.
What is Legal Aid of Marin?
200
3,259
What is the number of dwelling units currently in the development pipeline?
300
This document must be completed and submitted with receipts in order for staff to receive a reimbursement.
What is an expense form?
300
San Rafael's Climate Zone.
What is Climate Zone 2?
300
Under this program, the City inspects residential buildings of three units or more.
What is the Housing Inspection Program?
300
This tax rate went up in smoke from two to one percent in 2025.
What is San Rafael's annual gross receipts tax for cannabis delivery businesses?
300
The City of San Rafael limits rent increases for this type of housing.
What is mobile homes?
300
DBL
What is Density Bonus Law?
400
On May 19, 2025 the City Council approved increasing the City Manager's contract authority to this amount.
What is $100,000.
400
A ______ Beam.
What is the Cantileaver beam?
400
San Rafael's City Council banned the use of this equipment in October 2022.
What is a gas powered leaf blower?
400
San Rafael's highest sales tax generating sector.
What is the Autos and Transportation sector?
400
The City of San Rafael requires developers to provide this percentage of low-income housing in a market-rate development (unless the developer pays an in-lieu fee).
What is 10%?
400
IL&M
What is Industrial Light and Magic?
500
The City's new Enterprise Resource Planning system starting July 1, 2025.
What is Tyler?
500
Earliest Building Code.
What is the Hammurabi Code?
500
Senate Bills 946 and 972 decriminalized this activity.
What is sidewalk vending?
500
Civic Wave.
What is the name of the commissioned art piece on the Goldstone property in downtown San Rafael (1001 4th Street)?
500
If a San Rafael tenant receives a rent increase of 5% or more in a 12 month period, they can request this service.
What is mandatory mediation?
500
How to measure the surface area of a sign.
- What is calculated as follows:
- When a sign is on one flat plane, by enclosing the extreme limits of all framing, writing, logo, representation, emblem and other display including, among others, telephone numbers and internet web site addresses within a single, continuous perimeter composed of squares or rectangles.
- When a sign is comprised of individual letters, which appear as an unframed surface, the script and logo for each line shall be calculated separately. When distance between two (2) lines of script is more than twice the height of the script, each line shall be counted as one sign.
- When a sign is spherical, conical, cylindrical, and non-geometric three-dimensional shapes shall be measured as the area of their maximum projection upon a vertical plane?