Op-ed | The Tragedy of Outlying Development
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors is considering a proposal to develop more of the North Natomas basin, which is a floodplain surrounded by levees that were originally so weak that a grant to expand regional sewer contained a $6 million penalty if that capacity were used to serve North Natomas, and the land speculators controlling North Natomas were able to get the penalty waived and receive $43 million in levee improvement grants, which is bad for the public realm and the environment.
