1 month ago
3
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Concerned members of southwest Fresno are banding unneurotic to promote assembly members to cull a rezone exertion they accidental would further industrialize the community.
According to the City of Fresno website, Rezone Application No. P23-03006 would alteration the 55.31 acres of onshore pictured beneath from Neighborhood Mixed Use to Light Industrial. The wide nonsubjective is said to enactment concern improvement to beforehand economical and occupation growth.
Pastor B.T. Lewis II with the Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church is among galore others successful southwest Fresno who judge this rezoning would further load the assemblage with biology contamination.
According to Lewis II, the southwest assemblage has fought for decades to reverse the injustice and proliferation of contaminated air, reduced beingness expectancy, and economical disenfranchisement.
"Southwest Fresno tin by nary means endure immoderate further concern zoning arsenic we are inactive critically sick from decades of being inundated by concern concern practices that harm our wellness and supply nary existent economical vantage for our residents," Lewis II wrote.
According to the application, the rezoning projected does not impact caller concern development, but would beryllium filed to region existing burdens to fiscal investments arsenic a effect of existing zoning.
Lewis II, on with others similar the Leadership Council and the Golden Westside Planning Committee, volition stitchery connected Wednesday astatine 10 a.m. astatine the Elm Community Health Center connected 2740 S. Elm Ave. to protestation against this rezoning application.
