These and other potential developments in the planning stages are in keeping with the City of Gridley’s General Plan

GRIDLEY, CA (MPG) – The City of Gridley has been busy over the last month with the Gridley City Council hearing and voting to proceed on multiple housing developments within the city"'some that had stalled in the past"'and has moved forward with the annexation of those that were not currently within the city limits in keeping with their General Plan.

Among those is a project that has lain dormant since 2005, when the initial push for development annexed the property located on the corner of Little Avenue and Richins Avenue into the Gridley City Limits with a proposed subdivision map of 20 residences. Sixteen years later, the project now called Steffen Estates, has been revived. The Planning Commission held a public hearing on August 18^th, 2021, proposing the rezoning of that 8.66-acre plot from Residential Suburban (RS) to Single Family Residential (R1), then on September 7^th, brought the resolution to the City Council for a general plan amendment from low density to medium and for a mitigated negative declaration - 2021-R-029 (Yes: Sanchez, Calderon, Farr, Johnson. No: Torres), to approve a Tentative Subdivision Map of a 46-lot subdivision -2021-R-030 (Yes: Torres, Calderone, Farr, Johnson. No: Sanchez), Ordinance to rezone - 843-2021 (Yes: Torres, Calderone, Farr, Johnson. No: Sanchez) and for the first reading of the Ordinance. The resolutions passed. The second reading of Ordinance 843-2021 occurred at the Monday, September 20th City Council meeting as part of the consent agenda, it passing as well, making the Ordinance effective 30 days thereafter on October 20, 2021.

Further developments considered by council include another subdivision, Parkland Estates, which also stalled after 2005. That project concerns the development of a 1.48-acre property located directly across from Manuel Vierra Park on the east side of Haskell Street. With the majority of the development’s infrastructure already constructed (street, water, sewer, drainage, etc.) the application, brought to the Planning Commission on July 28^th, 2021, required Council approval of the Tentative Subdivision Map No. 1-21 and for Council to declare the project “categorically exempt as an in-fill project.” Resolution 2021- R-017 would approve a Tentative Subdivision Map to develop said parcel into 19 single family lots for a zero-lot line development zoned as multi-family residential (R-3), high density. It appeared on the consent agenda of the August 16^th, City Council Meeting, which passed (Votes: Yes: Johnson, Farr, Sanchez. Not present: Calderon, Torres).

Also on the August 16^th, 2021, agenda was that of the Kiwi Vineyard Estates subdivision, which would annex approximately 19.95 acres on the west side of W. Biggs-Gridley Road (at the end of Spruce Street) into the “incorporated boundary of the City of Gridley.” The project was approved by the Planning Commission at the July 28^th meeting and was brought before council to pass Resolutions 2021-R-018: Annexation of approximately 19.95 acres from Butte County into the Incorporated Boundary of the City of Gridley (Votes: Yes -Johnson, Farr, Sanchez, Calderon. Not present: Torres), Resolution 2021-R-019: Amend the General Plan of approximately 16.4 acres of the total 19.95 from residential, very low, to residential low density and adopt a mitigated negative declaration (Votes: Yes – Calderon, Sanchez, Farr, Johnson. Not present: Torres), Resolution 2021- R- 020: Approve the Tentative Subdivision Map No. 1-20, to divide the 19.95 acres into 60 parcels (Votes: Yes: Sanchez, Calderon, Farr, Johnson. Not present: Torres), and Ordinance No. 833-2021: Pre-zone approximately 19.95 acres; 3.55 acres to Residential Suburban (RS) and 16.4 acres to Single Family Residential (R1) (Votes: Sanchez, Johnson, Farr, Calderon. Not present: Torres). This subdivision would develop the property from W. Biggs-Gridley Road back to the eastern edge of the current Eagle Meadows subdivision, with 58 new homes including 2 existing homes, for a total of 60, and potentially provide an additional entry and exit point for residents in Eagle Meadows if Spruce Street is extended through the subdivision. With those motions approved (Votes:  the second reading of the Ordinance 833-2021 appeared on the September 7^th consent agenda and was approved by Council vote. Next step for this project is for the for the application for development to go to LAFCO, due to the boundary change from Butte County into the City of Gridley limits.

Those three developments alone propose to add a potential of 125 new homes to the Gridley area, not including the Villages at Eagle Meadows subdivision, south of the Eagle Meadows, which proposes to bring 20+ homes, or the Chandler Estates Subdivision north of Heron Landing, expected to bring 201 new homes to the area. These and other potential developments in the planning stages are in keeping with the City of Gridley’s General Plan.