Petaluma is set to receive upward of $3.4 million in grant funding from two separate sources to go toward airport improvements, update an outdated central Petaluma growth plan, and make other updates to plans for transit-adjacent growth and code consistencies.
City leaders approved the funding in two separate votes last month. One grant of $2.25 million, earmarked for the Petaluma Airport’s taxiway rehabilitation, will come from the Federal Aviation Administration and Caltrans. The council approved the grant June 16 in a unanimous vote as part of its consent calendar.
Taxiways A and B – which connect the runway to other areas of the airport, such as hangars and aircraft parking – are “vital” not only to local pilots, but for aircraft from the Coast Guard, Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, medical flights and other “critical services,” said Dan Cohen, Petaluma Municipal Airport manager…