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Solano supervisors tell staff to keep negotiating state shipbuilding bill, demand protections for Measure T, environment and taxpayers
Summary
After multi‑hour public testimony for and against a proposed shipbuilding site in Collinsville, Solano County supervisors voted 5–0 to direct staff to continue negotiating with state partners on a draft 'Solano Maritime Act' while insisting on local control, cost neutrality and environmental safeguards.
Solano County’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to instruct county staff to continue negotiating draft state legislation that would reconfigure a portion of the county’s Collinsville water‑dependent industrial (WDI) boundary to make the site more usable for a proposed shipbuilding project.
The vote follows a full staff briefing and more than three hours of public comment in which labor unions and economic development groups urged the board to keep the county in the running for federal shipbuilding funds, and environmental groups and local residents warned the project could threaten wetlands, groundwater and farmland.
Why it matters: Staff said the draft Solano Maritime Act is intended to allow a focused, time‑limited amendment of the county general plan for about 1,305 acres east of Collinsville while keeping the special study acreage unchanged, and to streamline CEQA review so a project could meet aggressive federal and site‑selection timelines. Board members and speakers repeatedly emphasized stakes…
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