The County of Sonoma is pressing re-set on the EIR for the Sonoma Developmental Center. Revisions to the environmental impact report for Eldridge Renewal LLC’s redevelopment of the more than 900-acre Sonoma Valley property began this week, focusing on the 160-acre core campus that, until the state closed the facility in 2018, had served the developmentally disabled for more than a century.
Eldridge Renewal’s proposal includes 990 residential units (of which 124 are affordable); 400,000 square feet of commercial, institutional and retail space, including a 130-room hotel; adaptive reuse of existing structures; new and upgraded infrastructure; and multiple parks and greenways connecting to the surrounding 750 acres of open space…