Why does Valley Springs need a new Community Plan?Valley Springs has a Community Plan, but it is over 30 years old! The plan has some good basic ideas, but it still says "Daily trains pass through Valley Springs." The railroad stopped running 20 years ago--isn't it way past time to update our plan?
Click here to read the 1974 VALLEY SPRINGS COMMUNITY AREA PLAN document
La Contenta and Gold Creek have no community plan--they are in a county "community center" block or "black hole" on the county Land Use map (same as Wallace and Burson), which allows commercial, light industrial, and residential. Residents of Rancho wrote their own "Special Plan" to protect their rural residential neighborhood.
What can you do?
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Do we have responsible, planned growth? Sometimes "pictures are worth a thousand words"...
New subdivision built in the flood plain and wetlands of Cosgrove Creek, adding to local flooding problems
Hundreds of oak trees were bulldozed to build a city-style subdivision in rural Valley Springs 
Acres of open space, wildlife habitat, and seasonal streams were filled in, paved over, and forever lost Is this what we want?
Bulldozing hundreds of oaks and flattening the hills
There IS a better way to build and grow...
Work WITH and honor the land.
Without a good plan, what will we get?
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