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.
On May 7, 2025, ECOS submitted a letter to the Sacramento Local Area Formation Commission (LAFCo) regarding the Continued Public Hearing To Consider And Certify The Environmental Impact Report And Approve The Respective Amendments To The Spheres Of Influence For The City Of Sacramento And Sacramento Area Sewer District (LAFCo Project #2023-03).
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You can read the recap and/or watch the recording of their last meeting on this here.
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On April 10, we received a letter sent to the County Board of Supervisors from the Natomas Basin Conservancy. It clearly expresses their concerns about the future of the Natomas Habitat Conservation Plans, their implementation, and the very species that they are charged with protecting if significant development, as proposed in the county projects are approved outside the permitted areas.
The letter reminds the Board of the 1 mile buffer zone for Swainson’s Hawks (clearly harmed by the Upper West side Project); the 17,500 acres limit to permitted areas; and the need for new take permits and ESA compliance for the projects outside this limit.
They also remind the Board of the millions of dollars and the 25 years years that been invested in implementing these plans. They urge the County Supervisors to require the developers to answer the question “will this project in any way compromise the ability of the NBHCP and/or MAHCP to be implemented as approved the state of CA and the US government?”
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Thank you,
Heather Fargo
President of ECOS Board of Directors
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.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article303190516.html#storylink=cpy
On April 2, 2025, the law firm Soluri Meserve submitted a letter to the the Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) regarding the acreage proposed for Airport South Industrial (ASIP) and including it in the City’s Sphere of Influence (SOI).
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