"I'm very excited about the amount of jobs we're going to bring to San Joaquin County," Steve Arthur, Ridgeline Property Group partner, said. "This is a $3.6 billion economic engine for the county."
"It's important that we come and support them 100% in all phases because of the value they bring," Raul Hernandez, Plumbers & Pipefitters Local Union No. 442 organizer, said. "Thanks to them, we're able to grow this construction industry here locally."
Hernandez added that the developers have embraced the community.
The project underwent a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) process, where a full Environmental Impact Report was done and released in November. The public is encouraged to take a look at it here, specifically going through the Executive Summary for clarification and insight.
"We actually went very far in the CEQA process, of the Environmental Impact Report preparation process and we said, 'Hey, we need to take a timeout,'" Arthur said. "'And let's just listen to the input that we've received and rethink this project.'"
"To move a project of this scale to a different location, that's a pretty big endeavor," Arthur said. "We did that to respond to the community's concerns about the physical location of the project."
"The Tracy Press stated that in the EIR report, it clearly states that this is some of the most fertile ("prime") farmland in San Joaquin County," Leanne Staas, who's leading the Coalition Against Pacific Gateway Project, said. "You don't just cover that up with concrete. You don't do it. This project needs to go away and it needs to stop."
"This is literally almost 25-million square feet of warehouses," Staas said. "To give people kind of a perspective, that's about 450-something football fields. That's a lot of warehouses. So here's this little 65-acre satellite campus going to be stuck inside basically a strip mall...it might bring some jobs while they build all the warehouses and then, what? They're going to sit empty just like the rest of the warehouses in Tracy. That's a crock."
"We have sat through so many of these meetings," Staas said. "We've looked at all his pretty pictures, it doesn't matter. There is no mitigation. The project needs to stop. End of story. We want it gone."
"We worked really hard to be responsive to the community input," Arthur said. "We're going to invest over a half-a-billion dollars in infrastructure. That alone is very significant to the county. I think in part of trying to clear things up is coming out and learn about the current version of Pacific Gateway. And see the changes that we've made to the project, that we feel will show folks that we really listened to their concerns and reconstituted the project to what you see today."
"That is a great opportunity for the public to just tell us what you think about the project," Arthur said. "If you've got concerns, we have a website. It's a great resource for the public to go and learn anything they want about the project. It shows the public exactly where we are in each point where the public can weigh in."
Ridgeline Property Group is encouraging anyone with suggestions to share their input. You can do so on their website under the Project Review Process and Contact tab to find out who to email in the county for input.
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