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Fresno council upholds approval for Golden Charter Academy's permanent campus, denies council appeal
Summary
After sustained public testimony from students, staff and supporters, Fresno City Council denied an appeal and approved development permits allowing Golden Charter Academy to build a TK-8 campus on West Belmont Avenue.
Fresno City Council denied an appeal and upheld the planning commission's approval to allow Golden Charter Academy to build a permanent kindergarten-through-eighth-grade campus on a 2.3-acre site along West Belmont Avenue. The vote to deny the appeal and approve the related development permits was unanimous on Dec. 5.
The project would move Golden Charter from its temporary campus into a new, purpose-built facility designed around the school's environmental stewardship curriculum. The school proposes a courtyard campus of four buildings, 21 classrooms, an amphitheater and outdoor learning areas tied to trips to the adjacent Fresno Chaffee Zoo.
Robert Golden, the school's founder and a Southwest Fresno native, described the campus and the school's mission at the hearing: "My purpose was to come back to my hometown and develop a…
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