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Airport South Industrial – Write the City Council

November 1, 2025

Currently, the City Council dates for discussion and voting on the proposed Airport South Industrial Project (ASIP) are:

  • Nov 18th – City Council Public Hearing – The meeting’s structure has not been published yet. However, we recommend preparing questions for the developer and Council members.
  • Dec 2nd – Continued City Council Public Hearing – Mayor/ Council vote – this will be the City Council vote to accept or reject the project.

As promised, the City Staff published their recommendations on ASIP last week and the City Council voted to review them. The recommendations are available here. City staff recommend a YES vote on the project.

Note that there are two opportunities for public comment.

Please put Tuesday November 18, 2025 (5pm) and Tuesday, December 2, 2025 (5pm) on your calendar. The address is City Hall, 915 I Street, Sacramento CA.

Take Action: Write your Member of the City Council

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 been recused from the vote due to the location of her residence very close to 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.

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.

Council member contact information and emails 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 Council Member ___

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

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. Or should put additional warehouses at Mather because there is an airport there already.

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.

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

Sincerely, your constituent, _____________

Plan to attend the hearings on November 18 and December 2 to let the City Council know you oppose Airport South Industrial, the first of four bad projects in Natomas.

Friends, we need a big turn out at both meetings. If you can’t make it to one, go to the other. You have a voice in local government. You have a voice in what Natomas looks like in the future. Use it.

Council member emails are here.

To sign our petitions: go here.

To donate: go here.

Honor Three Natomas Volunteers

Help ECOS honor three Natomas residents who have poured much time and effort into the campaign to save Natomas from developers. At this year’s ECOS Environmentalist of the Year event volunteers Susan Herre, Mackenzie Hollender and Edith Thacher will be recognized. Please join us in expressing your thanks. Environmentalist of the Year awards will be presented on November 14, 6 pm, at Fox and Goose. Become an event sponsor, buy a ticket or two or just make a donation. Learn more about the event here. I look forward to seeing you there.

Day of Action: Nov 18

Join ECOS and Sierra Club

The environmental community in Sacramento needs to take a highly visible stand against these two terrible projects. Help us fight them.

Attend the meetings

You can speak your piece, or just be there. We need to pack the room.

Say no to Coyote Creek Agrivoltaic Ranch!

Proposed for eastern Sacramento County, between the Prairie City SVRA and Deer Creek Hills Preserve. It would destroy 1,357 acres of vernal pools, grassland habitat, and +3,500 oak trees for a temporary solar farm.

To Learn More Visit https://bit.ly/nocoyotecreek
And write to the Board of Supervisors

On Tuesday, November 18
Attend the Board of Supervisors meeting
2:00 p.m., 700 H Street, Suite 1450

Say no to Airport South Industrial Project!

Proposed in the Natomas Basin, within the Pacific Flyway, outside the urban services boundary. +6 million square feet of warehouses on 450 acres of land near a residential community and elementary school.

To Learn More Visit https://bit.ly/NoASIP
And write to the City Council

On Tuesday, November 18
Attend the City Council meeting at City Hall
5:00 p.m. 915 I St.

Update on Airport South Industrial Vote

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.

Help save Blue Oak woodland in Sacramento County 10/6/2025

October 6, 2025

Please share with your networks!

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 will kill more than 3000 native oak trees
  • It will destroy habitat for numerous local and protected species
  • It will disrupt an important wildlife corridor at a time where such corridors are increasingly important because of climate change and the growing need for species to seek colder climes.
  • They are many far more appropriate sites in the county.
  • SMUD does not need this project to be able to close local fossil fuel plants or meet its 2030 net zero carbon goals
  • It disrupts the ability of the South Sacramento Habitat Conservation plan to achieve its conservation goals.
  • It runs counter to Sacramento County general plan directives for the use of this area.
  • It will destroy sacred ground and associated cultural resources for local tribes.
  • It will be a visual blight in a very scenic part of the county.
  • It will negatively impact operations and events in the state vehicular recreation area, immediately adjacent to the proposed facility. These events generate 57 million dollars for the local economy and that revenue would be at risk with the degradation of a massive industrial solar facility being installed immediately adjacent to their facility.

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!!!