Mill Valley fine-tunes commercial code to cut red tape

Mill Valley fine-tunes commercial code to cut red tape

Mill Valley is revising its commercial code to encourage new businesses while protecting nearby residential neighborhoods. The City Council spent nearly two hours on Monday discussing a dozen key tenets of the goals and rules that will determine what kinds of businesses can operate in the four commercial zones and how the permit process can be streamlined. “We’ve offered a new administrative use permit process in lieu of a conditional use for ce…