Zinfandel Extension Project Held Off for Another Year
A proposed extension of Zinfandel Drive to Douglas Road has been put on hold for a year as the County of Sacramento attempts to appease concerns of a developer in the area.
The extension project was originally scheduled for approval on Oct. 27, but was continued to the Board of Supervisors’ Dec. 1 meeting. The project was voted off the agenda, however, because the Transportation Department requested the project go back to the drawing board.
Mike Penrose, the director of the Planning Department, said the current project raised some drainage issues along the proposed roadway area. “One of the significant developers who’s been working with Economic Development along this roadway segment has expressed a desire to look at it in a different way, at the drainage that could affect the developability of a very large parcel there,” he said. His department’s plan, he said, is to go back a review the drainage issues, then restart the approval process.
The county’s current timetable for the project is to complete the drainage review by March 2010, get the designation of flood elevation as well as the environmental document by August 2010, finalize the design from September through December and start construction in 2011.
“This is bittersweet news,” Supervisor Don Nottoli said. While the design reviews would benefit the project as a whole, he said, the postponement of the project is detrimental to the economy.”When the economy could use the jolt the most, over certainly the next construction season, we’re not gooing to be able to get a $3 million, $2.5 million project underway,” he said.
Nottoli said he would like construction to begin on the revised project no later than April 2011. Once constructed, county planners say the extension will help improve traffic flow in Rancho Cordova and will ease congestion on Sunrise Boulevard.
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