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Senior homes project lingers
Council members in Galt say no to 17-year-old proposal.
By Loretta Kalb - lkalb@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PST Thursday, November 15, 2007
Story appeared in ELK GROVE LAGUNA section, Page G1
A renewed push for a senior housing community proposed some 17 years ago failed last week to gain support from a majority of the Galt City Council.
Kent Pollock, representing a co-owner of 900 acres west of Highway 99 on Twin Cities Road, told council members that the city turned its back on millions of dollars in development fees in January when it voted to exclude the Delta Greens Senior Retirement Community from its general plan update.
A month later, Pulte Homes Inc. announced that it had abandoned plans for what would have been one of the largest residential developments in area history. It also allowed its option to expire on the land that was to have become an active adult Del Webb community.
On Tuesday, Pollock said his client, the AKE Family Limited Partnership that owns 49 percent of the acreage, is exploring "legal alternatives" and "other methods of bringing further public pressure on the council to do the right thing." AKE is a legal entity of the Chun Mei Dodge family.
But, at the Nov. 6 council meeting where the issue was considered, three of the five council members – Mayor Tim Raboy and Councilmen Andrew Meredith and Donald Haines – were not moved to change their position.
"If we move forward with the Delta Greens project, it will not get through LAFCO (the Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission)," Meredith said. "I really do not see anything that would persuade me ..." to extend the city's sphere of influence to include the project site.
Besides the sphere of influence, which is the city's proposed area of future growth, two other issues have dogged the Delta Greens project. One is the need for expanded wastewater treatment. The city currently is upgrading its own plant. The other is environmental concerns about the site.
Still, the project was set to go forward in the summer of 2006, Pollock said, when the council voted to extend the sphere to include Delta Greens.
That support changed after November 2006, however, when two council incumbents were voted out of office.
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