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Residents urge Modesto City Council to extend general‑plan comment period and prioritize infill over sprawl
Summary
During public comment at the Jan. 13 meeting, multiple residents asked the council to extend the Jan. 15 deadline for the general plan public comment period and warned that outward-growth scenarios would harm air quality, farm land and disadvantaged communities.
Several Modesto residents used the council’s public comment period on Jan. 13 to press the city to extend the public comment window for the general plan land‑use scenarios and to favor infill and higher‑density development over outward sprawl.
Milt Treeweiler, identified himself as a lifelong Stanislaus County resident and asked the council to "grow up and not sprawl," arguing that concentrating new housing in existing neighborhoods and building upward would preserve farmland and use existing water, sewer and emergency services. "We must grow up on the infill and blighted areas where there are already city services available for this growth," he…
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