The developer Blackhawk Nunn Partners wants to push back Brentwood’s urban limit line to build 2,400 single-family homes outside city limits. What is now 800 acres of beautiful rolling hills and active farmland would become hundreds of acres of sprawl development. We need our member and friends to join us in Brentwood on April 25th to tell the City Council to protect our urban limit line, preserve open space, and stop environmentally damaging sprawl.
WHAT: Public EIR Scoping Meeting — Turn out and tell decision-makers what they need to look at during this proposal’s environmental review process
WHEN: Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 7 PM
WHERE: Brentwood Community Center, 35 Oak Street
RSVP!
If you can’t attend the meeting on the 25th, please use our online action form to send a message to the City Council and Planning Manager urging them not to break our urban limit line.
Urban limit lines are boundaries beyond which urban development is not allowed. These boundaries are essential tools for guiding new development to already urbanized areas. Building automobile-dependent single-family homes farther from transit and other services will further increase climate-warming emissions; Models show that this project could lead to over 26,000 car trips per day and 74,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.
Moving the urban limit line also threatens open space and agricultural land needed for carbon sequestration, wildlife habitat, food production, and groundwater recharge.
The City of Brentwood has almost 6,000 housing units approved or under construction, and over 1,000 acres of developable land within the existing urban limit line. There is no need that justifies the detrimental environmental impacts of this project. We need to focus on infill, transit-oriented development to combat climate change. That means denser, affordable homes near transportation — not more sprawl.
Please join us on the 25th to speak up for our urban limit line — and if you can’t, please send a message to City decision-makers.