 |
|
|
Lagoon Valley Legal Settlement
The Lagoon Valley settlement agreement reduces the scale of development
in Lagoon Valley and will lead to the establishment of an urban planning
line in the City of Vacaville that clearly states where development will
occur for the next 20 years.
The Urban Planning Area will protect open space and promote sound
planning in Vacaville:
- The Urban Planning Area will clearly delineate where growth can and
cannot occur for the next twenty years; it will draw a line around the
city's current sphere of influence that allows lands inside the line
to be developed and prohibits urban development outside of the line.
- A vote of the people would be required to allow development on lands
outside the Urban Planning Area. These protected lands will include
Upper Lagoon Valley, Vaca Valley, and Pleasants Valley, which comprise
1400 acres of prime agricultural land.
- Approximately 30,000 acres of threatened farmland and natural areas
will be off-limits to development for the next twenty years.
- The Urban Planning Area will prevent urban encroachment on Travis
Air Force Base.
The settlement agreement reduces the negative impacts of development in
Lagoon Valley:
- Housing units and commercial development are reduced by approximately
one third from the project approved in 2004: the number of houses has
gone from 1325 to 1025, and the "business village" has gone
from one million square feet to 700,000 square feet.
- Seventy-one acres of the most valuable habitat lands in Lagoon Valley
will be added to Lagoon Valley Park.
- The aesthetic and visual impacts of the development are reduced by
re-locating the business village to the south of Lagoon Valley Road,
maintaining a view corridor from Interstate 80.
- The project prohibits "big box" retail that would have increased
traffic and blocked the view corridor.
|
