Development

Starting their hike on a path that is mapped as a future home lot, the Community Services District and the Rancho Murieta Association boards held a joint meeting recently, walking around Lake Chesbro with community members to discuss different types of trails and what might be implemented as part of North development.  Click photo for larger image

What kind of trail system should connect post-development Rancho Murieta North: Paved trails? Dirt trails? A mix? That question sparked a walking-around joint meeting of the Rancho Murieta Association and the Community Services District boards one afternoon last month. Read more » Read more » about Trying to find a path on community trails

How to approach development and community trails, and news of a violation of drinking-water standards, were among the topics discussed at February's Community Services District board meeting, held Feb. 15. Read more » about Trails, water violation discussed at CSD

In two committee meetings last week, the Community Services District continued a push to broaden its role. At one session, it talked about the Rancho Murieta Association’s need to clean up RMA policy around the variety of homeowner associations that exist – or will soon – in Rancho Murieta. The second committee discussed working more closely with the RMA to get things done for the community’s benefit. Read more » about CSD continues push to extend its role

In two meetings last week, the Community Services District handled routine monthly business and, at a goal-setting session, discussed whether it should expand its role to serve Murietans better. Read more » about CSD discusses whether wider role is proper

Watch a video of the RMA meeting (48 minutes)

The Rancho Murieta Association’s board of directors heard a development progress report Tuesday night (including an invitation to help build a community center) and an update on the completion of the community's high-speed fiber network. The board also appointed committee members. Read more » about RMA gets an invitation to talk development

Despite opposition by a development representative, the community’s Parks Committee voted last week to build a three-acre Greens Park on the South, with play equipment and Frisbee golf. The approved spending is $358,443. Read more » about Greens Park on South wins final approval

A community planning board heard a proposal last week for Operating Engineers Local 3 to move the last of its training campus from Rancho Murieta to land off Meiss Road in Sloughhouse. The OE trainees, who helped lay the foundation for Rancho Murieta in the 1970s, are already learning to use heavy equipment at the new site. Read more » about Union plans to exit Rancho Murieta facilities

The question of how to re-engineer Security to handle the community’s future returned to the Community Services District board Wednesday, with new directors weighing in on the question. The board also elected new officers. Read more » about How will Security handle the future Murieta?

A yellowing, six-foot-long map was among the 40-year-old planning documents discovered last week in county files – documents that may push development back from the Cosumnes River in Rancho Murieta. Standing from left are development partner Tom deRegt, county facilitator Surinder Singh and Shelby Maples, the county project manager who found the documents. Click to see larger image.

The county wrapped up a series of Rancho Murieta development meetings last week by announcing the discovery of documents that support the Rancho Murieta Association’s claim that a “resource protection area” was drawn by the county in the 1970s to protect land along the Cosumnes River from development. Also at the meeting, the development group offered tentative revised plans that it says bring the planned Rancho North development down to 798 units – and within the limits of the Mutual Benefit Agreement. Read more » about 'Treasure hunt' yields development documents