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.

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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.

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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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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.”

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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.

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