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Fairfax residents urge council to fight proposed School Street Plaza’s size and impacts
Summary
Dozens of Fairfax residents told the Town Council they oppose Mill Creek’s proposed School Street Plaza project, calling the massing and scale out of character and urging the council to prioritize design, traffic and fire-safety mitigation over internal political fights such as a recall effort.
FAIRFAX, Calif. — Dozens of residents packed the Fairfax Town Council meeting May 7 to press elected officials to act on a developer’s proposed School Street Plaza project, calling the plans oversized and raising questions about traffic, fire safety and public costs.
At public comment, speakers described the project’s massing as out of scale with downtown Fairfax and said the town needs an actionable strategy to shape whatever development the state’s housing laws allow. “This train is barreling down the tracks towards our small town,” resident Michael Ordito told the council, and many others said they want the council to prioritize a unified community response instead of internal political fights.
Why it matters: The project has crystallized a long-running local debate over how Fairfax responds to state housing mandates and developer proposals. Residents said the scale of…
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