Draft MTP/SCS Comments Received - sacog

Yuba County Elected Official Information Session Public Comments from January 25, 2012
Debbie Gaylord
Disappointed the staff presentation didn’t get into meat of plan because did go
through it to come up with real questions and concerns after reviewing plan.
Reference page 2-9 related to Public Participation Plan for stakeholders
representing social equity, bicyclists, pedestrians, etc., but is wondering about
people like me who want to drive my car and live on ¼ acre. This plan doesn’t
allow for that. .
Beale doesn’t pay sales tax to county so the county has no authority over their
air emissions; seems detrimental to Yuba County to have to consider them an
established community in the county (in the same way as other established
communities).
Referenced page 3-13, real estate forecasts for small lot, mixed use, and
commercial use and is concerned that mixed-use housing cannot be financed.
Would like the source for information on that page.
Referenced pages 3-18 and 3-19 regarding number of houses on a large lot,
attached and detached. This says you can put 5-8 homes on a large lot and 8-25
homes on a large lot. This can’t be done, I have asked developers and they say
you can’t build 25 detached houses on one acre. Yuba and Sutter county
residents don’t want to live that way. Many of the residents came to Yuba and
Sutter counties for affordable housing.
Referenced page 3-20 regarding jobs-housing fit measure to assess the fit at
smaller geographic scale for local workers and affordable housing. This sounds
like Yuba and Sutter counties would only get help attracting low-wage jobs and
that’s not what they want.
Have questions and would like answers.
The comments here are summaries of the oral testimonies provided at this public meeting.