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Folsom plan area semiannual report: trails, medical center and nearly 3 miles of new trails expected in 2025
Summary
City planning and engineering staff told the council the Folsom Plan Area remains the city’s principal development focus with condominium and multifamily projects, the UC Davis medical center construction, and trail and water infrastructure work moving forward.
City planning and engineering staff gave a semiannual update April 8 on the Folsom Plan Area (the master-planned area south of Highway 50), telling the council the area continues to be the primary locus of development activity in the city.
Pam Johns, community development director, described recent large-lot map recordations and a renewed market interest in a broader range of housing types, including condominiums and townhomes. Johns highlighted several pending or recently approved projects: the Sendero condominium project (36 units expected via a parcel merger), Toll Brothers’ Regency at Folsom Ranch (phased final maps recording this spring), a proposed Folsom Ranch Sports Complex (ice rink and covered soccer), the Dignity Health/Folsom Ranch medical center site (now part of CommonSpirit / Dignity Common Spirit), and UC Davis Health campus construction.
Johns said the city has begun work on a Caltrans RTIP grant-funded study of a potential bus route into the plan area to connect Alder Creek Parkway and Iron Point Road with the Iron Point light-rail station to serve new medical and commercial uses.
City engineer Rebecca Neaves summarized mapping, civil and building activity. Notable items: model complexes under construction at Sendero; Atwell Apartments underway; Southpointe Commercial Center due to start construction this summer; incoming civil plans for Alder Creek Marketplace (future grocery) and phase 1 of the Dignity/CommonSpirit site; Independence at Folsom Ranch multifamily project near approval; and major trail work planned as "the year of trails" in 2025.
Neaves said Toll Brothers will out to bid multiple trail segments in Regency at Folsom Ranch this month, funded through pooled developer fees, completing nearly 2 miles this year and about 3 miles overall for the community. The city parks department will put the Mangini Ranch phase 1 trails out to bid this summer, building roughly 2.3 miles of trails funded by impact fees. Building permit activity for the last six months included 428 permits; 2024 closed with 861 permits. The plan-area population has passed 10,000 residents, Neaves said.
Johns and Neaves fielded council questions about trail connectivity north–south across Highway 50, shade planting/mitigation along trails and sidewalk gaps; staff said several connections exist but some segments remain constrained by Caltrans columns, the railroad corridor and existing rights-of-way. Staff said some trail-adjacent open-space areas are being conserved per mitigation and that future plantings will be evaluated with developers to increase shade where feasible.
The council received the semiannual report and asked staff to return with any follow-up confirmations on sidewalk fills and tree/irrigation plans.
