Category Archives: ECOS Updates

Airport South – What Happened at LAFCo and What’s Next

April 9, 2025

Here is an update on the Airport South Industrial Project!

The Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) held the first hearing on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. The Community response during the nearly four hour hearing showed the depth of feeling and opposition to this project. About 80 written comments were submitted and more than forty people spoke against the project.

Some highlights of the hearing included expert testimony on the failure of the EIR to discuss truck ultrafine particulate emissions’ impacts on health of children and residents in the neighborhood. A retired planning commissioner and a retired school district board member spoke to the incompatibility of the project with the adjacent neighborhood. Other issues: I-5 corridor traffic and trucks already disrupting the neighborhood; the incompatibility of the 96 acres of detention basins with airport runway. The hearing is available on YouTube.com in the video below.

In the end, LAFCo continued the hearing (delayed their decision). Staff and lawyers appeared to be concerned about getting their paperwork in order, and because the City has not yet held a hearing on the project. The next LAFCo meeting is scheduled for May 7. Plan to be there and show your opposition.

Meanwhile, please help get more signatures on our petition. Over 1050 people have signed our petition against approving the project.

Click here to go to the petition.

ECOS Letter to LAFCo re Airport South, April 2, 2025

On April 2, 2025, ECOS submitted a letter to the the Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) regarding the acreage proposed for Airport South Industrial (ASIP) and including it in the City’s Sphere of Influence (SOI).

Click here for more info on this vote.

Click here to read the letter in full.

Big Day of Giving 2025

“The environment is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest. It is the one thing all of us share.”
-Lady Bird Johnson

Get ready…get set…and give!

By giving to ECOS, you empower us to keep building a more sustainable, just, and livable region for all. Your support helps break down environmental inequities, strengthen communities, and bring together people and organizations committed to real change.

Your gift clears the air, plants the seeds, and lights the trail toward a better future.

Be the spark that guides us forward!

You can find our donation page for Big Day of Giving at: https://www.bigdayofgiving.org/organization/Ecos

Interested in knowing how your donation will be put to action?

Your contribution funds will help support ECOS volunteers and staff in the areas of policy analysis, legal action, administration, and site maintenance related to the following goals:

  • Protect open space in Natomas from proposed development.
  • Win Yolo-80 lawsuit so that Caltrans follows SB743 and SACOG’s Blueprint on future projects.
  • Expand the public transit network within Sacramento County.
  • Build relationships with high schools for the Environmental Justice Team.
  • Urge Sacramento County to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through better land use toward infill and away from new greenfield/sprawl developments.
  • Conduct our South Sacramento Park 99/infill study.
  • Ensure our region’s climate action plans are comprehensive and meet state laws and goals.
  • Work to achieve a beneficial Water Forum Agreement 2.
  • Ensure environmental/equity concerns are met in multiple multiyear water supply projects.
  • Increase support for a Natural Lands Campaign Resolution for better management of natural areas within urban parks.
  • Craft a strategy for implementing California’s 30×30 initiative in the SACOG Region.
  • Protect Blue Oak Woodlands from harm from a solar field development in east Sacramento County.
  • Continue resistance to the huge Delta conveyance project.

Golden 1 Credit Union Returns!

When you donate during Big Day of Giving using a Golden 1 Credit Union debit or credit card, gifts can be matched by Golden 1 Credit Union — up to $100,000 distributed proportionately!

**If your Apple Pay or Google Pay is connected to your Golden 1 debit or credit card that also counts towards the donation matching.

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Dave Jones to Speak to ECOS 4/29/2025

Environmental Council of Sacramento (ECOS): Climate Change Committee
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, hybrid meeting
6 PM Zoom: Link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6656164155
To phone in: 669-900-6833, Meeting ID: 665 616 4155
Join us in person! 5:30 PM start (drinks & snacks)
Mogavero Architects – 1331 T St. Sacramento

Marching Toward an Uninsurable Future:
The Failure to Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Insurance Crisis

Guest Speaker: Dave Jones, Director of UC Berkeley’s Climate Risk Initiative

When Dave was California’s Insurance Commissioner (2011 to 2018), he launched the Climate Risk Carbon Initiative – requiring insurers to disclose investments in fossil fuels. Earlier, Dave was a State Assemblymember, and a Sacramento City Councilmember.

We’re paying a lot more for home insurance in the Sacramento region, as insurance companies convince the State that they can’t afford to pay to rebuild homes destroyed by the increased wildfires cause by climate change. And yet our insurance companies have major investments in fossil fuel companies that cause climate change.
Let’s discuss what we can do!

5:30 PM: Social period, with drinks and snacks

6:00 PM: Introductions

6:10 PM: Dave Jones, Failure to Transition from Fossil Fuels and the Insurance Crisis

6:45 PM: Q&A, Discussion

7:15 PM: Updates, Announcements

  • LAFCo hearing May 7 on Airport South Industrial project (ECOS opposed)
  • ECOS lawsuit vs. Caltrans on Yolo/I-80 expansion (court date later this spring)
  • Sacramento County’s Climate Emergency Mobilization Task Force’s recommendations: workshops this summer
  • Sierra Club lawsuit vs. Sacramento County’s Climate Action Plan – need to incentivize infill over sprawl.
  • City’s lack of staff to implement its climate action plan
  • Ballot measure 2026 to help fund transit in Sacramento County
  • SMUD’s plan to achieve 2030 carbon zero, and locations of solar farms
  • Upper West Side proposed development outside County’s Urban Services Boundary
  • Others? Announcements?

If you drive to the meeting, you can park:

  • in the Mogavero/Collective parking lot behind the Mogavero Architects office
  • next to the ARB building West of Mogavero on 13th or T (no time limits)
  • other street parking (has two hour limit)

Soluri Letter to LAFCo re Airport South, April 2, 2025

On April 2, 2025, the law firm Soluri Meserve submitted a letter to the the Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) regarding the acreage proposed for Airport South Industrial (ASIP) and including it in the City’s Sphere of Influence (SOI).

Click here for more info on this vote.

Click here to read the letter in full.

Sacramento Earth Day! 4/27/2025

Sacramento Earth Day will be held on Sunday, April 27, 2025 from 11am – 4pm, at Southside Park in Sacramento, California. Join us for a free, family-friendly event, with opportunities to learn and network about sustainability.

Click here for more info!