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These rolling hills along Silva Valley Parkway next to Highway 50 could one day feature apartments and a small commercial center.
Apartments pitched at EDH 52 Noel Stack Managing editor AKT Investments has submitted a revision to its EDH 52 project to include a residential component. The application submitted to El Dorado County Planning Services proposes building an apartment complex (north site) and retail space on 18.26 acres along Silva Valley Parkway in El Dorado Hills, across the street from the proposed Costco warehouse (south site). The project site is adjacent to Highway 50, north of the freeway and next to the Serrano residential community. “The north site is comprised of 14,000 square feet of retail uses within two single-story buildings, 304 multi-family units within five four-story buildings … a single-story clubhouse and associated amenities,” notes the application. District 1 Supervisor John Hidahl briefly mentioned the revised project at Monday evening’s El Dorado Hills Community Council meeting. He later told the Mountain Democrat he had not yet fully reviewed the most-recent application.
“I know of the general changes being made (removal of storage units and large retail center with fueling islands to multi-family apartment units and a small commercial center), but not of the details,” he wrote in an email. “I’m hesitant to comment until I can review the details.” Fielding questions about the entire EDH 52 project Monday, Hidahl said the developer has spent the last several months working on its latest proposal and the next step, now that a revised application has been submitted, will be the issuance of a notice of preparation for the new environmental documents required. When asked why AKT was set on the Highway 50-adjacent parcel for Costco, Hidahl pointed to the intersection’s favorable traffic flow. “They looked at a number of locations … (representatives of) the Missouri Flat Road area tried to recruit Costco to come up. Costco looked at that intersection and the traffic circulation around there and said no thank you,” the supervisor explained. “The reason that they like Silva Valley Parkway
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Fire captain wraps up special training Tina Crevier FEMA Rescue Fire Protection District Capt. Brett Jones has completed the Managing Officer program, announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s U.S. Fire Administration/National Fire Academy . The Managing Officer program’s goals are to promote and enhance the professional growth of fire service leadership while preparing future leaders through
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