The Central Unified school board voted Tuesday to oppose the Southeast Development Area (SEDA) plan backed by Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, making it the school district in the area to take a public stance on the mega-development plan.
At Tuesday’s board meeting, the district’s seven trustees unanimously passed a resolution stating Central Unified’s opposition to SEDA, and directed the district superintendent to actively participate in SEDA’s public process, according to the resolution.
The proposed development plan, with a total estimated price tag of $4.3 billion, aims to build an estimated 45,000 homes on 9,000 acres in southeast Fresno. The plan is expected to worsen Fresno Unified’s declining enrollment as the new housing developments would fall within the Clovis Unified and Sanger Unified’s attendance boundaries…