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Fresno BHC Alert
TRANSFORMATION IS COMING TO SOUTHWEST FRESNO - RESIDENTS SECURE VICTORY!
After more than 18 months of hardwork and dedication by Southwest Fresno leaders and residents, Fresno City Council voted in favor of the Southwest Fresno Specific Plan - the plan that outlines the vision, health and future of the most polluted communities in California - in a 6-0 vote with Councilmember Steve Brandau absent.
The Southwest Fresno Specific Plan is a community-based plan meant to improve the quality of life for Southwest Fresno residents by providing them with the essentials needed to live a healthy life including more and better parks, quality housing, improved transportation, and no more toxic industries.
Lifelong southwest Fresno residents say this is 50 years in the making.
After discussion at the dais, the plan remained intact with amendments proposed by Councilmember Oliver Baines including:
- A section of southwest Fresno designated for single family housing will be redesignated to be used for public institutions;
- A section of southwest Fresno designated for single family housing south of Church Avenue to be used for mixed-use;
- A section of designated land south of North Avenue and east of Elm Avenue to be reconsidered for "light industrial" usage only after 85% of available industrial land in southeast Fresno is filled, and;
- An Industrial Compatibility Assessment is to be completed within one year.
The work continues. Fresno Building Healthy Communities is excited to make sure the plan lives up to its vision, especially with $70 million dollars coming to the City of Fresno to transform communities like Southwest Fresno.
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