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Campbell's Dixon urges city to fix EIR baseline and add buffers ahead of campus rezoning
Summary
Representatives from Campbell's Dixon told the Planning Commission the campus rezoning draft EIR used non‑peak data and failed to analyze plant operations (hours, lighting, odors, truck patterns), and requested larger buffers so operations and future residential uses can coexist.
Representatives of Campbell's Dixon told the Planning Commission the campus rezoning project's draft environmental impact report (EIR) did not use data from Campbell's peak tomato processing season and therefore understates foreseeable impacts. John McCown, site manager for Campbell's Dixon, said the draft EIR "used data outside of our peak tomato processing period" and failed to analyze plant operational details such as hours, lighting, odors and truck traffic patterns.
Chris Millard, senior agricultural representative for Campbell's Dixon, added detailed economic context: the Dixon plant processes roughly "500,000 plus tomatoes" during the mid‑July to mid‑October harvest, employs about "175 workers during peak harvest season" with 69% of employees living in Solano County, and purchases on average approximately "$65,000,000" of locally grown tomatoes annually while spending about "$3,500,000" with Dixon vendors. Millard and McCown asked the city to ensure the final EIR and planning work use peak‑season baseline data and consider mitigation and buffering so longstanding agricultural and industrial operations can coexist with future residential development.
