Natomas residents need to protest the General Plan update regarding community centers. As proposed, the update now limits community centers to only 1 per 35,000 residents. That is, only two community centers for a built-out North Natomas.
Please object to this new measure for community centers, especially as it applies to North Natomas. Today is the last day to submit comments for consideration to General Plan working group.
The City expects the General Plan update to supersede all preexisting neighborhood community and/or financing plans. The current North Natomas Community Plan and North Natomas Finance Plan dictate that North Natomas and West Natomas need four community centers. The General Plan update is a backhanded way to limit the City’s obligation to Natomas residents.
Further, there is no rationale explaining why the City believes one community center fulfills needs for 35,000 residents. There is not even a bad rationale listed; there is no explanation. The new measurement is still part of the update to the General Plan even though Councilman Ray Tretheway assured a group of North Natomas residents at a June 28 finance plan meeting that all four community centers would be planned for North Natomas.
Please write your comments, e-mail them it to the General Plan website and send your comments to the mayor, Councilman Tretheway, and all the other members of the city council -- a minimum of FIVE VOTES are needed to make a change!
Rosemarie Ruggieri is a Natomas resident and member of the Natomas Park Parks & Schools Committee.
