The Sacramento Bee
January 14, 2015
“County officials say they need to change the mostly two-lane highway from Watt Avenue to Grant Line Road into an urban roadway that can accommodate as many as 30,000 new homes in the next 30 years.”
Read more here.
On January 15, the Planning and Design Commission will conduct a public hearing to receive and consider public testimony on the proposed Sacramento 2035 General Plan and to forward a recommendation to the Sacramento City Council on adoption of the Plan and associated Final MEIR.
The public is invited to attend the public hearing:
Time, Date, Location:
January 15, 2015 beginning at 5:30 PM
New City Hall
915 I Street, 1st Floor Council Chamber
Sacramento, California
Ron Alvarado looks over a portion of his Cordova Hills property. (Photo by Randy Pench, Sacramento Bee, 2012.)
This project is classic leapfrog sprawl development with no adjacent development, and lies outside of the recently adopted Sacramento region Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (MTP/SCS). The enticement of the major regional amenity of a private university gave the Sacramento County Board of supervisors cover to approve the destruction of some of the finest remaining vernal pools in the Sacramento Valley. However, there is currently no university interested in the site, and there is general consensus that finding such a university is unlikely at best. The Environmental Impact Report only analyzed the “project as proposed” which included the university, ignoring significant additional impacts associated with the “no university” scenario and the mitigations to address them.
On March 1, 2013, ECOS and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit challenging Sacramento County’s approving the Cordova Hills project. You can help support our effort by donating to ECOS’s legal fund (see sidebar).
In May 2014, ClimatePlan covered Cordova Hills in their review of statewide implementation of Sustainable Communities Strategies.
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