From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Subhash Chand via groups.io Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2021 7:20 PM To:[email protected] Subject: [sacramento-birds] Birding along American River Parkway
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If you bird along the American River Parkway, you can help preserve it!
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One of the last wildlife sanctuaries along the Lower American River is in danger of disappearing forever.
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Tell the Central Valley Flood Protection Board that private projects should not be allowed to set precedent by encroaching into the American River designated floodway.
This is an important item pertaining to the Central Valley Flood Protection Board's review of the Trumark application for variances to the Board's regulations prohibiting the developer from building homes in the designated floodway of the Kassis property.
BACKGROUND
The Kassis property in Rancho Cordova is one of the last sizable areas of open space along the American River Parkway. The City is poised to let Trumark, an out-of-town developer, wipe out a critical refuge for wildlife to build 24 million dollar homes with river views.??The upper 21 acres of the Kassis property adjacent to Folsom Blvd. is suitable for development, but the lower 20 acres along the Lower American River is in the floodway and must be preserved. If you haven't already,?.