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In The News: FEMA Begins Process To Add Stockton Homes To High Risk Flood Zone

On February 5, 2014 the Stockton Record Newspaper reported that FEMA was beginning a process to add 5,000 homes in the Smith Canal area of Stockton to a high risk flood zone. According to the article, several years have passed since FEMA granted a grace period to fix local levees. FEMA could also take similar […]

In The News: PG&E Donates High Sierra Property in Kennedy Meadows to Tuolumne County

ThePineTree.net reports The Pacific Forest and Watershed Lands Stewardship Council announced the transfer of a 240 acre parcel in the High Sierra to Tuolumne County. This is the first of multiple land transfers from PG&E to be arranged and supervised by the Stewardship Council. A conservation easement over the same 240 acre parcel was conveyed […]

In The News: City of West Sacramento Launches Real Estate Web Site

On December 2, 2013 the Sacramento Business Journal announced the City of West Sacramento had launched a web site designed to help businesses find land and buildings in the City. The article says Kevin Jasper, a local land broker, expects the city will find interest in industrial land within the city in the near future, […]

In The News: Building Boom In San Francisco Brings City Government Unexpected Funds

On December 13, 2013 the San Francisco Chronicle reported that a building boom in the City has brought in unexpected funds to City Government. The funds are from development fees paid by land developers. The funds are used to pay for street, transit, and open space improvements within the city limits. According to the article […]

In The News: Project Development Costs Stall Old Sacramento Riverfront Path

On January 5, 2014 the Sacramento Bee Newspaper reported that it will cost about 11 million dollars to extend a pedestrian path, bike trail, and other park features along the Sacramento River from O Street to Miller Park.  Work on the existing path this project would extend was paid for with state grants and redevelopment […]

In The News: Editorial In Support of Westlake Master Planned Community in Fresno

On December 10th the Fresno Bee Newspaper published an editorial in support of the Westlake Master Planned Community in Fresno. The editorial describes the benefits the 430 acre, 2.600 home community would bring to the area. The article states that: ” This part of Fresno is in dire need of private investment and upscale housing. […]

In The News: Dispute Over Ground Water Well In Patterson

The Modesto Bee Newspaper reported on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 that there is a legal dispute over the rights to water from a large ground water well in Patterson, California. The industrial ground water well was formerly used by Patterson Frozen Foods and has a capacity to rival that of all the other water users […]