After years of limbo, West Sacramento’s River Park master plan is officially back on the clock. This week, the city’s Planning Commission signed off on a two-year extension to the project’s development agreement, giving staff and the developer room to update environmental and fiscal reports and rework the long-discussed neighborhood along the Sacramento River.
The new schedule is meant to push fresh public hearings into the next 12 months, once those studies and design tweaks are ready. For neighbors, that will mean a first real look at how the project has been reshaped into a smaller, denser version of what the City Council approved back in 2008.
According to the Sacramento Business Journal, the Planning Commission’s June 4 vote extends the River Park development agreement by two years so the city and project team can finish the required studies, clearing a path for a revised master plan to return for public review next year.
What Changed Since 2008?
When the City Council first signed off on River Park on June 18, 2008, the plan covered roughly 494.4 acres and about 2,788 residential units. That vision did not survive the flood work that followed. City staff report that levee improvements by the West Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency led to condemnation of a significant portion of the original site, forcing the landowner back to the drawing board…