Our infrastructure is a nightmare, poor roads full of pot holes and heavy traffic. Very poor law enforcement in El Dorado Hills, especially traffic enforcement near schools. Adding more people to this mess is the last thing we need.
Keep El Dorado County rural!
your last question is unformed. county gets 24% property taxes: what do you think about more houses? Well, if they are well planned and lead to low rental cost, great. if they are typical El Dorado County traffic makers (see: el dorado hills), then boooooooooo. I said "not sure," but if it is status quo type of (poor) planning, then i would have voted "strongly disagree"
We and most of our neighbors think El Dorado County is already overbuilding far too much. The recent drought we all experienced and raising the water prices ridiculously high is a perfect example. Please just stop the addition construction and let us enjoy a somewhat rural area.
I have 4 children and 11 grandchildren, all raised in El Dorado County. I think it's imperative that young adults are given the opportunity to stay here if they want to. My grandkids can't afford to live where they were born. We need more affordable housing!
We don’t need housing the fuel economic growth. Although it is probably the easiest way to do it, it is certainly not the best. Housing to grow the economy is like eating candy to for fuel to exercise. It tastes good and works initially, but will burn off quickly causing an energy crash. Stay focused on strong education, and destination developments, (sports complexes, agri-tourism) to fuel economic sustainability. If you need money, start with the drastically overfunded Fire Department in West County. Getting labor costs under control, and investing in slow growth ecconomic sustainability are what El Dorado County needs...
There should be no more development until it is proven that there is water available to those homes. It appears that much of our water has now been promised to Folsom to allow their development south of 50 to move forward so that puts our own development in El Dorado County in jeopardy. There is only so much water available and EID gave much of it away to Folsom. Shame on them for not protecting their customers and their own county and for not making Folsom take responsibility for their own water issues as they had originally promised they would. Very underhanded and deceitful things going on in Folsom and with our own EID.
The environment we chose to live in is a rural environment with accessibility to conveniences in nearby towns if necessary. We don’t need expansion. We need stability and stronger public services. The more housing etc you add the thinner the services are spread making them far less effective. And promises of new money because of the new growth are provided at the same ratio. Keep El Dorado County Rural!!
El Dorado County needs to address safe and affordable access to medical cannabis products for patients and get on board with the state regulatory system and address the illegal growers and run them out of the county.
Densely populated areas of El Dorado Hills need more police presence. I very rarely see any sheriff or ChP patrolling the whole city. More housing should include more bike/walking/running trails like Folsom has.
You can maintain a rural environment and still have quality of public services ( such as Sheriff, Library, Animal Services, etc.). It appears that those who make the "decisions" about economic development consider the two to be mutually exclusive. The character of El Dorado County is going to change forever if the development along US 50 is allowed to continue unchecked. Letting developers destroy oak trees so they can build cookie cutter homes is not progress. You can have development if it is carefully considered and the developer actually values the character of the county. Unfortunately, that does not appear to be what is currently being allowed in the county. When I speak to others in the county about the development going on and the manner in which it is being handled they are discouraged and frustrated. I do not blame them. Something needs to change in the way the Board of Supervisors and County Planning Commission handles these matters.
Affordable housing is needed most of all. El Dorado county should stay rural, as much as possible, and not keep approving large cookie cutter developments!
The strength of El Dorado county is rural open space and nature areas. That's why we moved to EDH (and likely everyone else). Don't spoil our only natural resource with more development! Utilize existing developments more effectively, for example Town Center could use more restaurants and entertainment options. EDH lacking paved bike trails like Folsom has - current roads are unsafe for bikes.
Infrastructure is insufficient for the quantity of development and people in El Dorado County. Don't allow this environment to become any more urban rat drug development oriented please.
Slow growth unless and until highway 50 is expanded (especially given in-progress Folsom expansion which will greatly impact traffic for El Dorado County residents).
Build the El Dorado Trail as it is supposed to be built and see the economic benefits literally roll in.
We need an Economic Development (ED) definition such as ED ib El dorado County is about creating an environment in which business can sustain and grow, resulting in a healthy business sector, with job creation, an expansion of economic activity, increased sales and tax revenue, a healthy sense of community worth and an ever improving quality of life.
I'd like to see more law enforcement in El Dorado Hills
Would be good to consider attracting job opportunities to El Dorado County. That helps improve the overall health of the local economy. Excess of anything is bad. Do not want to see El Dorado County become just a bedroom community and nothing else to speak for with all jobs being created being services for that bedroom community.
El Dorado County is large and it would be nice to know what location specifically we are discussing.
El Dorado County is environmentally fragile. Increasing development and the transportation needed to support it will bring congestion and negative environmental impacts to the region. The challenge is to show how economic development can avoid these problems.
If building costs were not so high in el dorado county, I believe we would have more growth and tax base. At this stage it is far to expensive in permit and TIM fees for new construction.
Measure Y and subsequent initiatives have made it clear that county residents expect new development to pay their full share to mitigate their impacts on the county transportation system. This limits the County Board of Supervisors ability to give incentives to new commercial development to locate in El Dorado County. This is fine with me. I don't need more services, and I don't need more shopping opportunities. That is apparently the position of the majority of EDC voters. If development wants to come here, they need to mitigate their impacts on the transportation system.
We are a bedroom community to the Sacramento job market. Most of those employeed in Sac shop Folsom. I would think offering business huge tax breaks or no taxes to bring employment here would generate more local spending simply because we would have more money earned locally to spend, locally. The jobs here are poor, minimum wage. Having spent my career in Sac working for At&t earning a good wage... I cannot find anything comparable in El Dorado county... I choose not to commute. Please bring good jobs to placerville.
Quit with the extreme high taxes (special fire tax on top of fire tax we already pay), water, property taxes, etc. With raised gas and retail taxes, it is getting harder and harder to own anything in CA, but El Dorado County is one of the highest!!!!
Economic development needs to respect and preserve the rural nature of El Dorado County.
Get more jobs that are sustainable and pay a living wage in Tahoe and pay one of your greatest resources, El Dorado County employees more (especially "line staff"). Many of us do very good work for very little compensation.
I drive to Folsom several times a month to shop at Costco and Trader Joe's. Why can't we get these types of stores in El Dorado County?
The County BOS has a stated preference for increasing the jobs base, instead of more rooftops - but has approved many projects that have the opposite goals. Several projects have sought rezoning entitlements that trade commercial zoning in favor of residential development. Specifically on the Western Slope, which has always been a bedroom community, instead of packing in more and more housing, why not further develop the El Dorado Hills Business Park, which has capacity, and access to HWY 50, and leverage the MASSIVE housing development 3 minutes away in Folsom as the housing component for employees in the EDH Business Park? Improve the future Empire Ranch Rd HWY 50 interchange with better access to the Business Park, to remove traffic from EDH Blvd & Latrobe Rd.
I understand there is a balance between providing additional housing, the revenue it provides and growth of our county. I think it needs to be clearly looked at the financial impact of additional housing added to the region. Yes you get additional sales tax, but what does that cost us long term to maintain additional stress to the roads utilities and county overall. I don’t believe our vision is to grow at a rapid pace such as Folsom, but well-planned modest growth is the goal. We should not count on high density growth in El Dorado Hills to support the taxes for the county.
I am supportive of additional workforce and affordable housing, but only in established town centers. I am not supportive of more sprawl development that removes open space in El Dorado County. We are in desperate need of more workforce housing, particularly in South Lake Tahoe. While some new development may be appropriate, I would be more supportive of policies to encourage second homeowners to rent their homes to long-term renters - something like a vacancy tax that applies if the home is not occupied at least 9 months out of the year. I am supportive of restrictions and higher taxes on vacation rentals.
I would prefer to spend my money in El Dorado County. Unfortunately the options (i.e., shopping, restaurants, services) are extremely limited. I am forced to take my money and go down the hill to Folsom or Sacramento to get the services, goods, and restaurant choices I desire or need.
I'm ONLY interested in keeping the area as rural as possible, which is the life style I was looking for when moving from So Cal. I'm devastated the Co. approved a LARGE gas station and liquor store on the corner of Sophia and Green Valley, shame on you, for thinking of the $$$ this will bring into the Co. and not the wants of the people. I think El Dorado Co, will agree to more housing, which will include more traffic, etc. this is NOT why we moved to El Dorado Co, and certainly now will consider moving OUT. shame on you again...............Not sure why you are sending not this this out, the Co will do what they want to bring the most $$$ into the area. you have already provided yourself.
A handful of new houses here and there in a rural setting is fine. Building swaths of tract homes, turning what was once open grasslands or forests into suburbs completely ruins the look and feel of El Dorado County. Efforts need to be made to correct the existing problem of high home and living costs coupled with limited resources and jobs before we exacerbate the issues by adding MORE homes. Water is already an issue in EDC, traffic and road repairs are already an issue in EDC, scarcity of livable-wage paying jobs are already an issue in EDC. Why make things harder for those who already live here? Focus on our crumbling infrastructure and filling currently-vacant buildings before focusing on new ones.
I have lived in the bay area I grew up San Mateo used to be a small town. El Dorado hills reminds me of how San Mateo was when I was growing up there. Now San Mateo is over crowded expensive and has none of the charm it used to have. I've lived there I moved up here to get away from over crowding and over pricing. I pray my children get to continue growing up in this small community based town and that we don't let it get out of control here. I think El Dorado hills is perfect the way it is.
El Dorado Hills pays much more in property taxes, than is returned to it in county government services. This imbalance needs to be corrected very soon.
Stop building mass housing projects in our community! Keep El Dorado County rural! Listen to the voters, not the money and bribes!
Lake Tahoe areas of El Dorado county are so different from others , People here do not have the job options and that translates to living conditions the majority of jobs pay very little hardly above minimum wage after working for years , Really not sure what can be done. It is a great area to be retired tho
El Dorado County has a terrible reputation in how they manage our money and personnel. They need to pull back on spending, and invest in better decision-making. EDC needs to let communities, such as the Meyers Community, decide how they want development to look to preserve the integrity of their community(s), instead of shoving crass decisions made in Placerville and shoved into rural communities. I think El Dorado County should look at successful Counties that resemble ours, such as the Park City & environs, to bring in complimentary development... Such as Athletic Training Centers and adjacent housing; student housing near LTCC and worker housing in the Stateline area with excellent transportation. The current transportation situation needs work!
I think the growth has been nice but it is enough. I want el dorado hills and most of el dorado county to have a small town feel. I think that is what makes the area special.
I approve of affordable housing developments, which are greatly needed in South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County California
There was discussion today about the homeless issue in El Dorado County in my workplace. We all noticed, that in EDH, there doesn't seem to be any issues with homeless people but in Placerville they are everywhere. This is a huge issue that the County and the City of Placerville need to work on. They don't need to recreate the wheel, there are other communities dealing with the same issues that we can learn from. Also, well paying jobs that keep the residents working in El Dorado County are essential (County pay is lower than surrounding Counties). Shopping, it still is so unbelievable to me that the BOS didn't allow Target in EDH to have a garden center, so we now bring our money down the hill because the options in the County for patio furniture and such is very limited. Keep the tax dollars here.
Responsible development is important. We need to make sure the development does not tax our infrastructure and natural resources. A lot of the development I see being built and proposed is high density and does not fit in with the character of the county. From my view point it seems that the developers are getting whatever they want from the county, poorly designed high density development that maximizes their profit. It is not what the people of El Dorado County want. Developers make the biggest quickest buck at our expense and leave.
My impression is that El Dorado County has done a poor job of consolidating growth in areas of existing residential and commercial development. Outside of South Lake Tahoe, downtown Placerville and a few other localized areas, El Dorado County appears to promote, or at least does not disincentive, sprawl. El Dorado hills continues to embody examples of car-centric, land intensive, residential development. For these reasons, and though I am aware of the affordable housing crisis here and elsewhere in the state, I hesitate to endorse the creation of more housing. Neither development of ranchette-style homes in rural El Dorado County (an inefficient use of land and a tax on existing infrastructure) or suburban-style single-family homes built without walkable or bikeable connection to existing jobs, commercial development or to other homes are affordable housing solutions; nor is such development aligned with general smart growth practices.