Vote is Confirmed!
The Board of Supervisors has scheduled their vote on the Upper Westside Project for Tuesday, April 28 at 2 pm. The agenda and the staff report are here, they were published April 22, 2026 well after 6 pm.
The Supervisors will meet in Board Chambers at 700 H Street, Sacramento. The vote will be on the EIR and the Project.
Take Action
- Send a Comment to BoardClerk[at]saccounty[dot]gov
The vote is Agenda item # 66 “The Upper Westside Specific Plan”. Put this information at the top of your comment. - Attend the meeting. You can make a two minute verbal comment. For written or verbal comment ideas, see Comment Ideas, below
- Sign our Upper Westside Petition
- Contribute. Your donation helps us oppose this project
- Share this information and ask others to join our mailing list.
- Share this Video of people who live on Garden Hwy speaking out against the project.
- We will be at Sacramento Earth Day at Southside Park on Sunday April 26 from 11-4. Stop by our booth #R2, and say hi!
Background
The County Board of Supervisors has scheduled the vote to approve or deny this project which will rezone over 2,000 acres of farmland to enable residential and commercial development, thus destroying the Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan.
The fundamental reason to oppose this project is that the County should not build an unincorporated city, the size of Galt, on land next to the Sacramento River. It will destroy valuable farmland and wildlife habitat, and, without improving main transportation arteries, increase traffic and congestion by adding over 20,000 people to Natomas. This project also flouts long-standing agreements between the City and the County. The City and the Natomas Basin Conservancy have retained counsel and sent strongly worded letters to the County explaining how proposed rezoning will destroy the Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan. You should help us to oppose this project.
Comment Ideas
Email a comment to BoardClerk[at]saccounty[dot]gov. Include “Upper Westside Specific Plan” in the subject. Providing your contact information is optional. Or, you can mail a comment to the County Board of Supervisors at 700 H Street, Suite 2450, Sacramento, CA 95814
Points for your comments could include the following. You don’t need to use them all – use ones that reflect your reasons for opposition.
- The City’s opposition – The City Council passed a resolution against UWSP. The City’s excellent letter is here.
- There will be irreversible and fatal impacts to the Natomas Basin Conservancy, the Swainson’s Hawk and the Swainson’s Hawk Zone. Two excellent letters from NBC are here.
- Traffic impacts to I-5 and I-80, West El Camino, and Garden Highway.
- There is no viable source of water. The urban water rights do not exist for these parcels and water reliability is diminishing with climate change.
- Total disregard for 3 decades of planning for flood/fire prevention and habitat preservation — conflicts with the Urban Services Boundary (County’s ultimate boundary for growth) and the Natomas Basin Conservancy
- Millions of square feet of new commercial space will pull business from existing businesses in Natomas and downtown.
- Increased congestion creates dangerous evacuation conditions in case of flooding or other emergencies.
- Excessive and unhealthy air quality emissions are not sufficiently addressed. The EIR identifies significant air quality impacts that can’t be mitigated: there are conflicts with the air quality plan during project operation, emissions of key air pollutants and precursors during project operation, and exposure of sensitive receptors to toxic air contaminants during project operation. It also did not assess the ultrafine particulate emission health impacts of the project.
- This project does not address the region’s affordable housing need and includes very few affordable housing units. Our housing need is for low and moderate income housing which also is a minor part of this project. More importantly, plenty of land is already zoned for housing. The housing crisis is now – construction on this project will not begin for many years and our housing needs will be completely different then.
Join Us!
• April 26 – Come to Sacramento Earth Day at Southside Park, 11- 4. Come by to say hi and talk about protecting open space in the Sacramento Region.
• April 28 – Come to the Board of Supervisors meeting and possible vote on Upper Westside. Voice your opposition. 2 pm at 700 H St, Sacramento.
