Roadwork delays West Slope developments

By Ben van der Meer, Sacramento Business Journal

Winn Communities is looking for an extension on entitlements for three housing projects in El Dorado County. But it’s not because of lagging confidence in the market, or even a lack of labor.

Rather, the company wants to complete needed road infrastructure first, saidGeorge Carpenter, a company vice president.

Carpenter said the three projects all got their tentative maps approved in 2005, before the housing meltdown of a few years later.

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