By Mathew Miranda | January 6, 2026 | The Sacramento Bee
The lawsuits, filed on Dec. 30 and Monday against the city and developer NorthPoint Development, allege that the Sacramento City Council unlawfully approved the project’s environmental impact report last month. The development, known as the Airport South Industrial, would build warehouses, hotels and restaurants in an unincorporated area of Sacramento County.
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By Tom Philp | December 15, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee
For months, Sacramento County has been advancing a 25,000-resident community north of downtown in Natomas without a confirmed water supply. Its new solution is a supply that was slashed by 82% in the last drought, yet the county is assuming that the ugly effects of modern-day climate change will never happen again.
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December 5, 2025
On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, the Sacramento City Council voted to annex the 475 acres of farmland for the Airport South Industrial Project, allowing warehouses to be built next to residences and a school. They also approved the Environmental Impact Report. The vote was 5 – 2 with Karina Talamantes and Mai Vang opposing.
We at ECOS are deeply disappointed and you probably are too. The City requested and the developer agreed to some changes to the plan, which will make the project a little better for human neighbors, including an increased setback. For plants and wildlife, the project will be a disaster.
Loss of open space in the Sacramento Regions seems to be a theme. Open spaces in the Sacramento Region are not being protected by our elected officials, regardless of agreements, plans, rules, conventions and community action.
For example, on November 18, the Board of Supervisors approved the Coyote Creek agrivoltaic project in eastern Sacramento County. Thousands of oak trees and sensitive habitat will be lost to a project that could be moved.
On December 2, the City Council approved Airport South Industrial, allowing warehouses to be built next to residences and a school.
In addition, in Natomas, another 7000+ acres are under threat of development. These range from rice fields north of Elkhorn Blvd (Grandpark Southwest and Grandpark Trails) to the “Boot” area along Garden Hwy (Upper Westside Project).
For both Coyote Creek and for Airport South, the Sacramento community stepped up to show our opposition. There were 155 speakers at the Coyote Creek hearing. 193 people wrote comments to the City Council about Airport South Industrial and 1550 signed a petition opposing it. Thank you all.
Your participation enabled us to get a better hearing. The strength and persuasiveness of the opposition had an impact on Airport South Industrial and the level of attention paid to it by the City Council.
Your support is needed – ECOS has staff to pay, stamps to buy and lawsuits to fund – you get it. We really need your donations. Our next step is a lawsuit to get a judge’s opinion on whether the City’s process followed the law. It is not cheap and we need donations to keep it going. Please give. Donate here.
Fox 40 segment on the City Council meeting
Sacramento Bee article about Airport South Industrial City Council Vote
Sacramento Bee article about Coyote Creek Board of Supervisors Vote
Thank you for your support and participation in opposing the loss of open space in our region.
On December 1, 2025, ECOS submitted a letter to the Mayor and City Council of Sacramento regarding Airport South Industrial Annexation (P21-017). Below is an excerpt from our letter.
We write to address your vote on the biggest environmental decision to come before the City Council in decades, again. We believe you should vote no on the Airport South Industrial Project.
ECOS has previously submitted a number of letters and e-comments expressing our concerns about the project.
By Jake Goodrick | November 20, 2025 | The Sacramento Bee
While the Sacramento project that had advanced the most stalled this summer after strongly-worded pushback from city officials, stewards of the Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan — a 50-year effort to build in the basin while preserving habitat for its native species — wonder whether the agreement can endure the county’s unexpected influx of construction. Only so much land exists in the basin for the conservancy to protect its required part, which Roberts said could not happen if the county’s developments were to move forward. “No more of this. It’s a complete end to this.” Roberts said, waving to the intricately carved dirt lot, seeing the wetlands to take its place. “We’re certain that we cannot implement any more of the (habitat plan) if these developments take place. And we’re not equivocal about that. We’re resolute.”
By Riley Palmer | Thursday, November 20, 2025 | Capradio
Sacramento City Council weighed the merits of a large industrial development in North Natomas on Tuesday as environmentalists, developers and laborers argued for or against the controversial project.
The development, known as Airport South Industrial, would annex approximately 450 acres of protected land for warehouses into the city of Sacramento, south of the Metro Air Parkway and west of the Westlake neighborhood in Natomas.
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