New Online Service Makes It Easier to See Developments in City Of Sacramento

March 2, 2022

Interested in seeing what new developments could be planned for your neighborhood?

The City has now made it easier than ever to see what development projects, including home and business construction, are in review or have been approved across the city of Sacramento.

The City’s new online tool, AgencyCounter, allows residents and developers to easily view planning applications and proposed development projects in the city.

Click here to read more.

Blueprint Then and Now

February 23, 2022

SACOG Honors Blueprint Legacy in the 2024 Long-Range Transportation Plan

How the Blueprint transformed transportation and land-use planning for good

The creation of the Sacramento Region Blueprint was a revolutionary undertaking and compelled a critical assessment of the relationship between transportation and land use in the region. The strategy, completed almost 20 years ago, set the precedent for how metropolitan planning organizations engage in regional design. SACOG has chosen to carry on the innovative strategy’s legacy through the Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (MTP/SCS).

ECOS was key to original Blueprint, as mentioned in this article.

Local environmental groups filed a lawsuit and demanded more from SACOG and its members.

Keep reading at https://www.sacog.org/news/sacog-honors-blueprint-legacy-2024-long-range-transportation-plan.

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Local Development and EV Charging Stations – Dec 13

Join ECOS Monday December 13, 2021 at 6:00pm for one or both of the discussions on our agenda:

  • A review of active development projects in the Sacramento area, and discussion of whether ECOS should support or oppose any of them
  • Proposed state and local zoning changes to assure enough electric vehicle charging stations will be available in new multi-family housing, with a presentation by Guy Hall, President of SacEV

Click here for the agenda.

Click here to join this Zoom meeting.

Incentivizing Infill – Join us Nov. 29

Join ECOS for our monthly Land Use Committee meeting on November 29, 2021 at 6:00pm to answer the following questions: How should we create incentives to encourage infill development in Sacramento County? What is the potential for infill development here? What are barriers to overcome, and how can we support more infill development?

The Sacramento County has received a $360,000 Grant to develop incentives for infill development projects. We’ve been asked to provide ideas on how the County could incentivize infill.

We will discuss the prospects and advantages of sustainable infill development in the Sacramento area. Mogavero Architects will also participate in the discussion.

1) Todd Taylor, County Associate Planner, will present the tasks outlined in the Grant, and the work plan’s general timeline.

2) Sotiris Kolokotronis, founder of SKK Development, will provide the perspective of a leading developer of urban core projects.

Link to join meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/543524123 


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South Airport Industrial annexation proposal in North Natomas: ECOS Comments

On July 15, 2021, ECOS, along with Habitat 2020, Friends of the Swainson’s Hawk and the Sierra Club Sacramento Group sent a letter regarding the South Airport Industrial annexation proposal in North Natomas.

Below is an excerpt from our letter.

We urge you to delay consideration of the proposed LAFCo MOU until you have an approved Memorandum of Understanding with the wildlife agencies for the process you will follow to comply with the Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan (NBHCP) while considering annexation of 450 acres outside your permit area. The NBHCP is a contract between the City and state and federal wildlife agencies that sets the terms of its permits to develop in Natomas. The purpose of the Plan is to preserve the populations of threatened wildlife in the Basin while allowing some City and Sutter County development. This contract states that “Because the effectiveness of the NBHCP’s Operating Program is based upon CITY limiting total development to 8,050 acres within the City’s permit area . . . , approval by either CITY or SUTTER of future urban development outside of their respective Permit Areas would constitute a significant departure from the Plan’s Operating Conservation Program.”

Click here to read the letter in full.


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