[CPEO-MEF] Yuba Highlands and Beale Air Force Base (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Editorial: Yuba: Anything goes?
Housing project new low point in planning


Sacramento Bee (CA)
May 3, 2007

One would hope that a 5,100-unit housing project would face an uphill 
battle because it encroaches on the community's largest employer -- an 
Air Force base. Or because it violates just about every principle of 
modern planning -- build houses close to jobs, not in the boondocks 
where the land was cheap. Or because numerous government agencies found 
the environmental review shoddy, such as how a new paved road through a 
wildlife area isn't a significant issue. Or because the project doesn't 
have a firm water supply.

Only in a county that is economically desperate or predisposed to growth 
of any kind would a project like this have a chance. This one apparently 
does. It is in Yuba County. And the project is known as Yuba Highlands.

To many Sacramento area residents, Yuba County may seem like a separate 
universe. Think again. If development goes wild in Yuba County, it will 
have a profound impact on the future of the entire region, from the 
quality of the air to the level of congestion and the viability of 
housing closer to the urban core. If we sprawl too much, we will all 
suffer the consequences.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/165123.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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