Sacramento County May Open 20,000 Acres (31 Sq Miles) to Development (Los Angeles: new home, schools)

[NewToCA]

After years in the works, the general plan update to guide county growth through 2030 appears to be just months from a vote. Approval by county supervisors would open 8,000 acres of land east of Grant Line Road and 12,000 acres along Jackson Road to development.

Sacramento County may open 20,000 acres to development - Sacramento Business, Housing Market News | Sacramento Bee (http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/27/2916587/sacramento-county-may-open-20000.html#ixzz0vEWqIT8x - broken link)

I had to laugh though, it shows the Sacramento Rendering Co, which owns and operates the very despised Rendering Plant, developing 2,700 homes right on the site of the plant.

[Think About It!]

I don't think I would ever live in either area. I don't like the idea of the rendering plant. I don't like the idea of being just east of the county portion of South Sacramento / Florin either.

[NewToCA]

Isn't the proposed Cordova Hills site, just east of Grant Line and north of Kiefer, just adjacent to the current location of the massive county landfill?

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by NewToCA

After years in the works, the general plan update to guide county growth through 2030 appears to be just months from a vote. Approval by county supervisors would open 8,000 acres of land east of Grant Line Road and 12,000 acres along Jackson Road to development.

I had to laugh though, it shows the Sacramento Rendering Co, which owns and operates the very despised Rendering Plant, developing 2,700 homes right on the site of the plant.

I have to laugh at the notion that anyone but the developers thinks that 20,000 more acres of new home sprawl producing additional challenges to schools, fire, police, highways, smog levels, water availability, waste disposal and employment, other than the temporariness of the building trades, will benefit Sacramento and environs.

It was with sadness and dismay that over many years I watched Los Angeles and Orange County sprawl eventually lead to a megopolis that extended from the crest of the Grapevine to San Diego, overlaying everything in cement and asphalt and destroying orchards, open land and other natural features in the process. Coming soon, reaching totally throughout the Inland Empire.

If I live to be about 90 (I'll be 64 in less than two weeks) I expect I'll see "Sacramento" extend from Chico, south to Fresno or Bakersfield, east to Placerville and Auburn and west to the Bay Area.

This plan will be a good start; especially since the development of North Natomas. More little houses built of ticky-tacky!