Wilton Rancheria chooses Elk Grove site for resort, casino

June 9, 2016

By Cathy Locke

The Sacramento Bee

The Wilton Rancheria announced Thursday that it has chosen the site of a half-built mall in Elk Grove as the preferred location for its planned resort and casino.

The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs will be asked to designate the 35.9-acre parcel along Highway 99 as the preferred alternative in the environmental impact statement, prepared in response to the tribe’s application to have the land taken into trust for the project.

ECOS believes that the unfinished mall in Elk Grove is the best site proposed for the new Casino, as stated in our letter sent to the Bureau of Indian Affairs on February 29, 2016. Click here to read that letter.

Rancho Murieta can grow with $12 million water treatment plant expansion

Jun 7, 2016

By Mark Anderson

Sacramento Business Journal

The Rancho Murieta Community Services District completed a $12 million water treatment plant expansion last week, that will allow the gated community of Rancho Murieta to grow.

Read the article here: http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2016/06/07/rancho-murieta-water-treatment-plant-expansion.html

Fix for tainted wells in Rio Linda to cost $9 million; rate increases needed

May 18, 2016

By Edward Ortiz

The Sacramento Bee

For some, water rates may rise as much as 23 percent
Rio Linda residents want Air Force to help pay for cleaning contaminated wells
Air Force contends Rio Linda well problem not tied to former McClellan base activity
Exposure to hexavalent chromium can lead to skin irritation, asthma in the workplace, and kidney and liver damage, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The chemical entered the limelight in 2000 with the film “Erin Brockovich,” in which the title character, played by Julia Roberts, sued Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over hexavalent chromium found in a Mojave Desert community’s drinking water.Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article78458132.html#storylink=cpy

With Yamanee approved, here are five things to know

May 13, 2016

By Ben van der Meer

Sacramento Business Journal

As always when a big project gets approved, the story doesn’t end but just enters a new chapter. With 14-story Yamanee having a green light to build in midtown Sacramento from the city’s planning commission, here are five future plot lines to watch.

Read the article here: http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2016/05/13/with-yamanee-approved-here-arefive-things-to-know.html?ana=twt

Bond aid: McKinley Village developers slated to get $8 million in reimbursement funds

May 12, 2016

By Patrick Groves

Sacramento News & Review

https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/bond-aid-mckinley-village-developers/content?oid=20880232

City will use money to repay developers for public infrastructure costs, though litigation could complicate things…A lawsuit filed by a group of residents calling themselves the East Sacramento Partnerships for a Livable City alleged that the city’s environmental impact report failed to adequately analyze or diminish the impacts of the infill housing project, including its location near a former landfill and proximity to freeway pollution, and the projected increase in residential traffic.

Elk Grove’s Kammerer Road, Southeast Connector Not Crucial in National Transportation Analysis For Sacramento Region

By ElkGroveNews.net

May 11, 2016

A national transportation infrastructure needs report released today and touted by the Sacramento Transportation Authority (STA) did not include the Elk Grove City Council’s two most sought transportation projects – the Kammerer Road extension and the larger Southeast Connector.

See more at: http://www.elkgrovenews.net/2016/05/elk-groves-kammerer-road-southeast.html#sthash.IOrpThdD.dpuf