Fresno County supervisors approve changes to zoning and more

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- There volition soon beryllium changes to Fresno County zoning, goals, and county-wide policies.

The Fresno County Board of Supervisors approved a caller wide program connected Tuesday.

At implicit 400 pages, it makes respective changes that use county-wide.

New zoning impacts however multifamily developments are designed, the locations of exigency shelters, a projected assemblage northbound of State Route 180, and overmuch more.

County officials accidental it's been a balancing enactment to conscionable the county's galore needs portion complying with authorities laws and directives.

While each 5 region supervisors supported the caller program connected Tuesday, immoderate residents urged the committee to reconsider the program and marque changes.

Mariana Alvarenga said the county's caller program focuses excessively overmuch connected imaginable improvement opportunities.

"The region needs to absorption connected addressing needs successful existing disadvantaged unincorporated communities, not readying for caller development," said Alvarenga.

There were besides concerns astir however the region analyzed the caller plan's interaction connected the environment.

In a missive to the committee of supervisors connected Monday, The Sierra Club and 2 different organizations said the county's biology interaction study is flawed and doesn't comply with a authorities instrumentality called CEQA.

"These different impacts that aren't addressed done your CEQA investigation see cultivation onshore preservation, h2o prime and supply, wildlife habitat, biology justness issues, and others," said Central Valley Partnership Director Daniel O'Connell.

Those comments and galore others travel arsenic Supervisor Brian Pacheco tells Action News the caller program has been years successful the making.

He says the county's enactment connected the program won't halt now.

"There's ever immoderate contented that somebody's going to person that we request to look astatine much oregon they request further probe into. And that volition hap implicit the adjacent year," said Pacheco.

The caller wide program is effectual now, but zoning changes won't spell into effect for 30 much days.

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