El Dorado County slow-growth initiative launched
By Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee
Saying El Dorado County is growing too fast and Highway 50 is getting jammed, a group of activists launched a drive Tuesday to qualify a November ballot measure that would slow growth while encouraging the county to work harder to bring jobs to the area.
Petitioners hope to qualify their measure, called “Fix Highway 50 Traffic First/Keep Us Rural,” for the November ballot. It would be the second major grass-roots efforts in recent years to slow development in the lower reaches of the foothills county, where tens of thousands of commuters flow daily onto Highway 50, many bound for jobs in Sacramento County.
If passed, the measure would amend the county General Plan to prohibit the county from approving any more residential subdivisions of five or more parcels until overall traffic congestion is improved on Highway 50 from the current “level of service” F, or stop-and-go during commute periods.
Yeah, we’re here now, so nobody else can come. Nyah nyah.
Typical.
Two conflicting goals.
Dawg posts a dumb comment.
Typical.
Dogs always complaining about something
Non relevant article. Even though we are on the 50 corridor and in El Dorado County, this pertains to the ever increasing trend of living miles away from where you work (for whatever the reason may be) and spending hours every day in your car commuting to work. Unfortunately, fixing traffic generally means more and bigger roads rather than forward thinking and implementing more efficient mass transportation.
Good thing we have a plan for a worthless bullet train to nowhere. Could have built light rail in the center of hwy 50 and 80 from the foothills to the bay.
The bullet train sounded so much more trendy/European.