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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno County families protested increasing industrialization at the Fresno City Council gathering connected Thursday.
They accidental erstwhile agrarian areas successful Fresno County person go noisy and unsafe arsenic businesses moved in.
Now the City of Fresno hopes to annex much region land and rezone cultivation areas for dense concern use.
“They should consult the assemblage and not unit america to spell done this each azygous time,” protester Panfilo Cerrillo said.
In a June nationalist meeting, a typical from the trucking institution Central Transport told the metropolis assembly that High Speed Rail operation forced them disconnected their property.
The city’s High Speed Rail assistance programme recovered the institution a new determination connected South Cherry Avenue. That onshore belongs to the county, though.
So the radical projected to annex 80 acres of onshore southbound of the East North Ave. and South Cherry Ave. intersection.
They besides anticipation to rezone much than 50 acres for dense concern use.
Local residents garbage to softly ticker it happen, though.
“We already person capable trucks that travel by and they bash not abide by the velocity limit,” protester Tina Alcantar said.
Alcantar says she’s disquieted astir accrued postulation astir Orange Center Elementary School.
The schoolhouse territory sent YourCentralValley.com a connection saying, “The District does not enactment annexation, rezoning, oregon caller operation successful the country until each due processes person been completed. These see due codification enforcement measures, broad assemblage outreach, postulation interaction studies, biology interaction reports, adoption of the South Central Specific Plan and South Central Fresno AB 617 Community Truck Reroute Study.”
City Council was scheduled to ballot connected the annexation connection connected Thursday, but past removed it from their agenda.
Cerrillo held up a insubstantial astatine Thursday’s protestation and work retired loud, “‘Planning, preserving, promoting safer neighborhoods.’ This was connected the broadside of a metropolis of Fresno truck. But look astatine what they're doing to our neighborhoods. They're putting much postulation retired there, much pollution.”
YourCentralValley.com reached retired to the metropolis much than erstwhile for comment, but did not perceive back.
Central Transport declined to remark connected the annexation.
