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NEWSLETTER
May 2008
THE REALLY GOOD NEWS: After 2 ½ years our efforts to
assist the Rio Linda Union School District in acquiring the land for building
the school on the site originally designated for a school from DR Horton
have been successful. (DR Horton wanted to build from 66 to 74 homes on
that land instead.) At the January 24, 2008 – Downtown - City Planning
Commission meeting, a group of our residents (from among the 60 or 70
present that rainy evening) and 3 Rio Linda School District representatives
spoke on various issues regarding our need for the school, the history of the
area’s long range planning for a school on that site and we, also, presented
the members of the Commission with copies of the many affidavits we
collected from neighbors earlier in the year.
D R Horton (or their representatives) had prior communications with several
of the Planning Commission members before the actual meeting was held
so they could present their side of the issue in advance of our being heard
that evening during the time for Public Input. However, due to the facts
presented to the committee by various residents, the affidavits and the
backing of the school representatives, the Planning Commission voted 6 to 2
against DR Horton and suggested that they work it out with the school. DR
Horton accepted somewhere near $420,000 per acre and the escrow closed
at the end of March. The city is also ready to purchase the 1.8 acres of this
site to add that to the Park’s current acreage of 4.6, yielding (with the 1.8
joint use land) 6.5 acres of land for Magnolia Park which will be adjacent to
the school. That part of the land - sale and purchase - will close escrow by
the end of June if all goes according to plan.