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).
The Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) will vote on May 7, 2025 on the two items they deferred on April 2: Adding ASIP to the City Sphere of Influence and certifying the ASIP EIR. The Agenda and supporting documents are here. LAFCo will allow public comment at the May 7 meeting.
When: Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 5:30pm Where: 700 H St., Sacramento, CA (in board chambers)
What you can do
Please show up, bring a friend, and bring a sign to express your opposition! It will be very important to be in the room and show the commissioners just how many people oppose the project.
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?”
Here is an update on the Airport South Industrial Project!
The Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) held the first hearing on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. The Community response during the nearly four hour hearing showed the depth of feeling and opposition to this project. About 80 written comments were submitted and more than forty people spoke against the project.
Some highlights of the hearing included expert testimony on the failure of the EIR to discuss truck ultrafine particulate emissions’ impacts on health of children and residents in the neighborhood. A retired planning commissioner and a retired school district board member spoke to the incompatibility of the project with the adjacent neighborhood. Other issues: I-5 corridor traffic and trucks already disrupting the neighborhood; the incompatibility of the 96 acres of detention basins with airport runway. The hearing is available on YouTube.com in the video below.
In the end, LAFCo continued the hearing (delayed their decision). Staff and lawyers appeared to be concerned about getting their paperwork in order, and because the City has not yet held a hearing on the project. The next LAFCo meeting is scheduled for May 7. Plan to be there and show your opposition.
Meanwhile, please help get more signatures on our petition. Over 1050 people have signed our petition against approving the project.
On April 2, 2025, ECOS 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).
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.
