October 16, 2025
There will be two hearings at the City Council on the Airport South Industrial Project, proposed in Natomas. The dates are currently set for November 18, 2025 and December 2, 2025. The City Council plans to vote on the project December 2. Go here for more information.
On October 21, 2025, ECOS submitted a letter to the City of Sacramento City Council regarding the Airport South Industrial Project.
October 6, 2025
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Please join us at the upcoming October 6th, 2025 Sacramento County Planning Commission meeting to tell them that you oppose destroying thousands of oak trees, native wetlands, native grasslands and numerous local and rare species.
The Sacramento County Planning Commission will be deciding on October 6th, 2025 whether to recommend to the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors the approval of an approximately 1200 acre industrial solar facility in the eastern part of Sacramento County. Whereas we 100% support renewable resources, this is an unacceptable location to site such a facility because:
It is extremely important for the planning commission meeting to be packed so the commissioners will know the level of opposition to this project.
The meeting will be held at 700 H street, Suite 1450, Sacramento, CA at 5:30 pm.
Public comment is not necessary if that makes you uncomfortable. We need to fill that chamber!!!
On August 19, 2025, ECOS submitted a letter to the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors regarding the proposed Upper Westside Development Project.
As you consider the proposed Upper Westside tomorrow, please reflect upon the fact that it is not needed for housing. Here’s why…
Click here to read the letter in full.
By Tom Philp | August 20, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee
“Over the past six years the City has tried to work with the County on this project, including numerous meetings and letters to address the City concerns,” McCarty wrote. “Unfortunately, those concerns remain unresolved.”
Click here to read the article in full.
August 29, 2025
Friends – after the head-spinning events of last week, here is a summary of what happened and links to media coverage as well as a status of all the projects proposed outside the USB in the Natomas Basin. The Bee has published a series of articles about Upper Westside. They are listed below; select one and write a letter to the editor.
The Board of Supervisors cancelled their meeting and their vote on the project that was scheduled for August 20, 2025. The vote on Upper Westside is “continued to a date uncertain”.
The City sent their official letter of opposition to the Board of Supervisors on August 19 and we hope this pause means that the City and the County are going to work together AND observe the agreements that have governed development in the Natomas Basin for the last 30 years.
We think that the Supervisors will wish to vote on this project soon, but we are not sure how they will treat the City’s objections or all the objections raised by you in your letters and comments on the agenda item.
The Rally was GREAT!
Six media outlets, Lisa Kaplan, Karina Talamantes, and about 100 to 120 neighbors and residents of Natomas participated. Several residents and our speakers were interviewed. Find interviews and photos of the event in “Links” below . Check out the photos for yourself and your neighbors.
Thanks to you all who shared this information, used social media, posted flyers and emailed friends so that we had such a good turnout. And thanks to the residents of Garden Highway and the Garden Highway Community Association who organized the Rally, made the signs, did terrific outreach and made it happen.
WE (all of us together) have demonstrated strong, educated and technical opposition. Perhaps it is making the Supervisors think harder about this project than they planned. However, they could schedule a vote at any time.
This project has not been voted on by the City, we anticipate a vote in October.
Both projects have started the review process of potential environmental effects, as part of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), by reaching out to agencies that will be involved in the review process They held formal Notice of Preparation meetings and the agencies will provide comment. Both of these projects have numerous similarities to Upper Westside, including a reliance on City water.
Media Coverage of the Rally
Debunking the “We-Need-More-Housing Myth” – This article in the Bee explains why we do not need to permit more greenfields for development to meet housing demand in Sacramento! See the article here.
A Sacramento Bee’s editor, Tom Philp, has written a series of terrific articles about Upper Westside, history, issues, process and more. Read his Opinion pieces here and write a letter to the Bee editors expressing your opinion on one of the issues raised or simply, thank them for these excellent articles. The articles listed are saved together in date order, here.
Write a Letter to the Editor of the Bee
Write a Letter to the Editor and reference one of Tom Philp’s articles. Submit it here. You are only allowed 150 words and letters are only published on Sundays. The more letters that are submitted, the greater the chance of one being published – so – write something!
We’ll wait until we know when the next vote is scheduled and then will again ask for your participation in letter writing, attending hearings and submitting comments.
Photos in this post taken by Monika Lee and Dennis Spear
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