By Tom Philp | June 30, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee
Sacramento County is proposing to build a 25,000-resident community in Natomas that is surrounded on three sides by the city. So when neighboring city councilmember Karina Talamantes recently requested a public meeting for her residents, a responsive county should reflexively say yes.
By Tom Philp | June 23, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee
In 2002, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors got out of the growth business for the thousands of acres of lands surrounding the Sacramento International Airport in the Natomas basin. It wisely decided to empower the city of Sacramento to plan for any urban expansion and for the county to manage what was to stay as farmland. Now, nearly a quarter century later, supervisors are on the verge of abandoning this long-standing commitment. Key votes in the coming months, starting Monday, will decide the fate of a vast new community of 25,000 residents just east of a bucolic stretch of the Garden Highway bordered by interstates 5 and 80.
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Developers want to build thousands of new homes on property that’s outside the designated urban area.
Watch the video by CBS 13 here: https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/video/upper-westside-project-in-natomas-leads-to-debate-over-farms-versus-future-growth/#x
By Ben van der Meer | June 9, 2025 | The Sacramento Business Journal
Local environmental groups have filed a lawsuit opposing a sphere-of-influence amendment to the city of Sacramento that would enable an industrial project called Airport South to move forward.
The Environmental Council of Sacramento, Sierra Club Mother Lode Chapter and Friends of the Swainson’s Hawk are plaintiffs in the suit filed Monday in Sacramento County Superior Court, contending an environmental impact report for Airport South didn’t take a full accounting of possible impacts.
By Ben van der Meer | May 29, 2025 | The Sacramento Business Journal
Story Highlights
- Sacramento County released notice for 1,871-acre Grandpark Southwest project.
- Grandpark Southwest plans 8,500 residential units and mixed-use development.
- Separate Grandpark Brookfield project proposes 16,000 units on 3,484 acres.
By Emma Hall | May 9, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee
Sacramento residents, including former Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo, were against the project altogether, saying it’s too close to schools and other residential areas. Residents were concerned about construction and the annex will have environmentally, especially with the Natomas Basin Conservation habitat plan.
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