Rancho Cordova’s City Council voted last month to move forward with a decade-old proposal to build a new $182 million Highway 50 interchange in the three-mile stretch between the Hazel Avenue and Sunrise Boulevard ramps.
The project planning phases are expected to continue throughout 2026 and are not yet finalized. The city has already budgeted for it in a multi-year Capital Improvement Plan.
To get drivers to and from the interchange, the city reaffirmed in its vote that it would construct about two miles of a new surface street. A stretch of Rancho Cordova Parkway would connect the highway to White Rock Road. The interchange would only serve drivers south of Highway 50, and the new arterial would cut through an area designated as a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency due to toxic waste dumped by the Aerojet General Corp. in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s…