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.
By Ben van der Meer | May 9, 2025 | Sacramento Business Journal
“I think our main concern is it crosses the urban services boundary,” said Heather Fargo, the current ECOS board president and a former mayor of Sacramento. She added the land is also active farmland, and developing it violates the spirit of the Natomas Basin Conservancy Plan, first approved by local governments in 1997. “It starts to unravel the conservancy plan.”
By Gurajpal Sangha | May 7, 2025 | ABC 10
“It is farmland, it is habitat, it is next to a school in a neighborhood, and it is not suited for warehousing. It needs to go somewhere else,” Fargo said.
By Carolina Estrada | April 2, 2025 | KCRA 3
“At least 30 people showed up with signs and expressed their concerns about the proposal to build more than 6 million square feet of warehouse near the Paso Verde Elementary School and West Lake community…The commission decided to extend the discussion until May 7.”
By Tom Philp | April 1, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee
Now opponents are crying foul before a decisive vote over this expansion proposal on Wednesday before the Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission, also known as LAFCO. They have good reason: This has all the fingerprints of Howard Chan, now the former city manager of Sacramento, acting yet again as if he was as powerful as the mayor when he most certainly was not.
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