Clark Pacific seeks Woodland expansion. Here’s what county planners will consider
Clark Pacific, a West Sacramento-based manufacturer, is seeking Yolo County approval to convert nearly 77 acres of agricultural land west of its Woodland facility into industrial use as part of a 500,000-square-foot expansion.
Clark Pacific has provided prefabricated concrete materials for parking structures at Sacramento State and the Aggie Square development. The company also produced the concrete used to build the bowls at Levi’s Stadium and the Golden 1 Center.
The company, which employed 764 people in Yolo County last year, according to the Sacramento Business Journal, has seen demand for its products increase sharply because of the boom in data center construction.
Clark Pacific has manufactured prefabricated building materials at its 144-acre Woodland facility for about 20 years. The 76.76-acre property slated for expansion, at 40307 Best Ranch Road, is directly west of the current facility and east of Highway 113. The new space will be used for production and storage.
The expansion would allow the company to double its Woodland workforce from 180 to 360 employees after construction, according to a staff report. The project is expected to generate roughly 1,500 additional daily vehicle trips, including about 110 truck trips, according to the environmental impact report.
The expansion will go before the Yolo County Planning Commission at a special meeting Thursday. The commission will decide whether to recommend that the Board of Supervisors certify the environmental impact report, approve a general plan amendment from agriculture to industrial use, rezone the project site from Agricultural Intensive to Heavy Industrial and amend the county’s general plan accordingly.
The expansion must also be approved by the Yolo County Board of Supervisors because the project conflicts with county goals related to land use, greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle miles traveled.
Despite the environmental impact and loss of farmland, county staff said the project represents a logical expansion.
“The project represents a logical extension of an existing industrial complex rather than the introduction of new, isolated development, thereby avoiding broader fragmentation of surrounding agricultural lands,” county staff wrote in a report.
Caltrans, the California Department of Conservation, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, the Yolo County Farm Bureau and PG&E submitted comments on the draft environmental impact report. None objected to the report, but the Farm Bureau expressed concerns about the project’s affects on surrounding farmland.
The loss of farmland is “unavoidable,” but the company must preserve agricultural acreage elsewhere in the county at a 3-to-1 ratio to offset the conversion, according to county staff.
The company has also asked the city of Woodland to expand municipal water service to sites outside the city limits, which requires voter approval. The Woodland City Council voted unanimously last month to place a measure on the November 2026 ballot asking voters whether the city should provide water service to businesses within one mile of the city limits.
