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Comm Zoo director details 20-year expansion plan, petition drive for 1/8 of 1% sales tax
Summary
Meg Maitland, senior director of the zoo referred to in the record as “Comm,” presented a decades-long master plan to expand the facility onto adjacent acreage and said petitioners are collecting signatures to test interest in placing a 1/8 of 1% county sales tax on the 2026 ballot to fund the work.
Meg Maitland, senior director of the facility referred to in the record as “Comm” Zoo, told the Taft City Council on March 17 that the zoo intends to expand from roughly 14 established acres onto an adjacent 40-acre parcel and build new visitor and conservation infrastructure.
Maitland said the plan, developed through a recent master plan process, would add an entry plaza with a dedicated education entrance for school groups, an expanded wildlife rehabilitation center, intern housing, renovated legacy habitats, and larger exhibit areas including rotating "flex" habitats for bears and upgraded aviaries for California condors. She described a proposed 16,000-square-foot event…
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