7/30/2025 Please note: At this time, the City meeting on the Airport South Industrial Project has been POSTPONED to an undetermined date.

Needed: Four NO votes. Write the Mayor and City Council Members.

The proposed Airport South Industrial Project, for 6 million square feet of warehouses, is a monster that will affect the entire Natomas area by bringing in more huge trucks and their pollution unless it is stopped.

The lawsuits that have been filed may slow down the project, but the ONLY way to stop it is for four members of the City Council to vote NO. That critical vote is set for August 12.

We need your City Council Member (CCM), regardless of their district, to vote NO on this project.

Normally, there are nine votes on Council, but CCM Kaplan has recused herself from the vote due to the location of her residence near the project. Four “no” votes will block the project.

Everyone in the City of Sacramento can help build opposition to this project by writing to their CCM. Your CCM’s vote could be decisive.

View of semi-trucks parked at a warehouse in Sacramento

Contact the Mayor and your City Council Member and help us get to four “no” votes.

Call, email or speak in person to your CMM and ask them to vote NO on the Airport South Industrial Project.

Email addresses for the Mayor and CCMs are here.

Speaking/Talking Points

Some possible points to include in your call or email. Fill in the blanks as appropriate. The two most important points to make are – you are a constituent, and you want your CCM to oppose the project.

Dear Mayor McCarty and City Council,

I am your constituent and I live at ______________________ (address or at least zip code).

I vote and I am writing to ask you to vote no on the Airport South Industrial Project in Natomas.

I oppose this project because

(Choose one or two and put the idea in your own words)

This warehousing project is located next to a school, homes, and wildlife habitat. Impacts to neighbors include noise, lighting, air pollution, traffic, more trucks in the neighborhoods and more trucks on I-5.

The Plan is inconsistent with the Natomas Habitat Conservation Plan, City General Plan, County General Plan, SACOG Blueprint, Urban Services Boundary, Air Quality Plan, Metropolitan Transportation Plan.

The City should not develop farmland into warehouses, there are better, industrial-zoned locations for warehousing projects. It should pursue infill and renovation of aging facilities such as Blue Diamond and Arden Arcade.

More warehousing outside the urban core sucks jobs and business out of existing industrial areas.

I object to putting developer profits over sensible growth and community health. Only the property owner/developer benefits from this project; net revenue to the City has never been identified and $4 million estimated revenue hardly addresses the City’s budget problems.

The project will be bad for the health of Natomas residents, particularly the children at the next-door Paso Verde school and the neighboring community.

Sincerely, your constituent,

Your Name

Take Action:

Send your email or make your phone call no later than August 10, 2025.

Plan to attend the August 12, 2025 meeting at City Hall, 915 “I” St, Sacramento. Put the date on your calendar. Confirm the date, time and see both the Agenda and the staff report on about August 8 when it should be published on the City website.

Donate to oppose Airport South Industrial. Lawsuits are expensive.

Email the Mayor and the City Council today. Email addresses are here.

Please sign our petitions against this project and Upper Westside.

For Social Media

Social media really spreads the message – please use it! Share the two video links and the flyer.

Video 1 – Former Mayor Heather Fargo, shares her thoughts on the Airport South Industrial Project.

Video 2 – Natomas high school student and birder, MacKenzie Hollender, talks about the birds she has seen that use the excellent habitat that would be paved for Airport South Industrial.

In the News

Here is a July 16, 2025 Opinion Piece by the Sacramento Bee’s Editor, Tom Philp

Reach out to your City Council Member Today. Write Today.

They need to understand the depth and breadth of opposition. Thank you.

Regards,

Heather Fargo

President of the ECOS Board of Directors

July 21, 2025

Natomas student and avid birder, Mackenzie Hollender, shares her birding experience on grassland threatened by development in Natomas. The Airport South Industrial Project puts 6 million square feet of warehouses next to the Paso Verde Elementary school and the Westlake community. Mackenzie introduces you to the birds who live there now. Join the opposition and ask the City Council to vote no on this project.

Learn more here.

Please join ECOS at two important meetings to oppose rampant development in the Natomas Basin: June 23 and June 26, 2025.

Join us to hold signs and/or testify:

June 23 – 5:30 County Supervisors Chambers at 700 H. The Upper Westside Project will be heard at the County Planning Commission. It is Item 3 on the Agenda and is available here. The Commission will make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors for their meeting later this summer. The Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) has been released and is available on the County website here.

June 26 – 5:30 City Council Chambers at New City Hall 915 I St. The Airport South Industrial Project will be heard at the City Planning Commission. They will make a recommendation to the City Council on whether or not to annex the land and whether to accept or deny the project. The FEIR has already been certified by LAFCo. This meeting is a continuation of the meeting on May 22, 2025. The agenda for June 26th is here.

Possibly as soon as mid-August the City Council will vote on the Airport South Industrial Project. The Board of Supervisors may meet on Upper Westside in late summer as well. Both of these meetings will be go or no go for the projects.

What You Can Do

1. Post on social media your concerns about the project. Do it today, and tomorrow and for the next week until June 26.
2. Encourage people to sign our petitions – they are here.
3. Donate to the ECOS Natomas Fund here. We have initiated a lawsuit against LAFCo over Airport South Industrial. We need your help to pay for it.
4. Come to the meetings on June 23 and 26. Please do speak. Tell the Commissioners what concerns you about the projects. Be sure to tell them if you live in Natomas.

Links to Learn More

ECOS media release about Upper Westside Project

Letter from the City to the County expressing their concerns about the Upper Westside project – very detailed

Article in N Magazine by Heather Fargo on rampant development proposed in the Natomas Basin.

ECOS press release for lawsuit brought by Sierra Club, ECOS and Friends of the Swainson’s Hawk against LAFCo over ASIP

Learn more about developer-initiated projects in the Natomas Basin at the ECOS website.

Regards,

Heather Fargo
President of the ECOS Board of Directors