This form needs Javascript to display, which your browser doesn't support. Sign up here instead
Lagoon Valley
After working for two years to oppose development in Lagoon Valley, a scenic
agricultural valley southwest of Vacaville, Greenbelt Alliance agreed
to a settlement with Triad Communities and the City of Vacaville. The settlement
will reduce the scale of development in Lagoon Valley, and will establish
an Urban Limit Line to guide Vacaville's growth and protect approximately
30,000 acres of open space for the next two decades.
The settlement has now been partially implemented and, Pleasants Valley, Vaca Valley and Upper Lagoon Valley are be off-limits to development for the next 20 years! Mitigation funds from the settlement agreement will also provide several million dollars to purchase conservation easements for these lands, creating a permanent greenbelt in the scenic valleys outside Vacaville's western boundary.
Greenbelt Alliance would prefer to see Lagoon Valley as permanently protected
open space. However, a 1991 development agreement already allows Triad
to build in Lagoon Valley regardless of the results of the referenda previously
scheduled for the March 2005 ballot. The settlement agreement reduces
the negative impacts of the development in Lagoon Valley and helps the
city move away from sprawl toward smarter growth and the long-term protection
of its working farms and natural areas.
