Last October, the city of Sacramento sent a letter to Sacramento County officials “to express its opposition” to a proposed 25,000-person community that would be built north of downtown in an unincorporated part of Natomas that is surrounded on three sides by the city.
Months later, when a county planning commissioner asked in June about city opposition, county Planning Director Todd Smith portrayed things as if the differences had narrowed.
“We have responded to the city’s concerns, we think,” Smith told planning commissioners. “We think we’ve addressed what we believe are the appropriate issues.”…