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Solano supervisors back consultant-led roadmap, stress LAFCO checks on annexations
Summary
Supervisors discussed a 20-year general-plan roadmap, urged coordinated regional planning with cities and agencies, and asked staff to prepare an RFI/RFP for a consultant; speakers emphasized LAFCO’s municipal service review and the county’s role in protecting local land-use authority.
Solano County supervisors asked staff to seek a consultant to help craft a 20-year “roadmap” for growth and to convene policy makers across cities, water agencies and other stakeholders, while underscoring LAFCO’s role as a check on annexations.
The request to prepare a request for information (RFI) and request for proposals (RFP) followed an extended discussion about municipal service reviews (MSRs), spheres of influence and the county’s 2008 orderly growth policy. Supervisor Mashburn said the county and LAFCO can curb unwanted annexations if cities cannot demonstrate they can provide required services: “Do not take our local land use authority away from us,” he said.
Why it matters: supervisors framed the item as a proactive effort to shape where and how development happens in Solano County over the next 20 years, not simply to block growth. They said a consultant and structured convening would help the county form a…
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