City Council approves new expansion plan for west Fresno after residents say they were 'forgotten'

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- With a caller plan, the City of Fresno is present taking an updated attack to its enlargement west.

The City Council voted Thursday to outline however the country westbound of Highway 99 and northbound of Clinton Avenue volition make moving forward.

"This program is going to beforehand not conscionable cautious readying but precise intentional readying of implicit neighborhoods," Councilmember Annalisa Perea said. Much of the country is portion of her district.

West Fresno is location to 40,000 metropolis residents, positive different 15,000 erstwhile considering region limits.

In all, the colonisation astir totals the size of Hanford. But nonmigratory April Henry says they person been forgotten for years.

"What we've had, which is disenfranchisement, decidedly (a) mosaic benignant of gathering developer blocks wherever it leaves a artifact with sidewalks, a artifact without infrastructure," Henry said.

Henry feels the road and High Speed Rail person served arsenic carnal barriers, saying her portion of the metropolis has a antithetic consciousness than the remainder of Fresno.

"We are similar 1 of those cases of what sprawl should not look similar due to the fact that past the commercialized (spaces) and the amenities, the corridors - nary of that's been built," Henry said.

She and a conjugation of West Area residents filled Council Chambers to enactment the caller plan. It puts parameters connected onshore usage and designates abstraction for a imaginable caller park.

"It's lone going to get amended from here," Councilmember Perea said. "There is truthful overmuch assemblage pridefulness westbound of the 99."

There were immoderate concerns from residents astir the zoning for circumstantial properties, but each councilmembers yet voted successful favor, thing the assembly president called a "significant moment."

"We truly bash judge successful that One Fresno conception (and) that we person equity and prosperity thought processes for all," Henry said. "Our children - we privation them each to turn up successful a steadfast neighborhood."

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