Amador County – The Amador-Tuolumne Community Action Agency last week made a presentation to the Jackson City Council about a 4-unit transitional housing project it is seeking to place at Sutter Street and Argonaut Lane, and today ATCAA will make the same presentation to the Jackson Planning Commission.

Housing Resources Director Beetle Barbour said ATCAA has a purchase agreement on a vacant property at Sutter Street and Argonaut Lane in Jackson, near the former Prospect Motors’ original location. She said the agency made the first presentation to the City Council last week to make sure council members hear about the project first, before the plan is also made public.

Barbour said ATCAA sent out dozens of letters to neighbors of the property requesting comment, and received only one phone call. The letter, in part, said ATCAA “proposes to place four high-quality manufactured homes on 1.5 acres as a transitional living program for families with children.” The letter noted that the agency would be speaking with the Planning Commission at 7 p.m. today (Monday, April 18) at City Hall.

The letter said ATCAA for more than a decade has operated “transitional living programs for families with children as the adults are reentering the job market.” It said “families participating in the program are chose with care,” and “every adult must obtain and retain employment while they are enrolled in the program.” Children must be enrolled in school or in licensed child care during the day, and “homes occupied by the families must be maintained, inside and outside.” Also, “only adults enrolled and participating in the program are allowed to stay at the homes.” ¶ ATCAA’s transitional living programs, called “Sutter Family Homes,” have six families now participating. Its facilities include an older Vicotorian home in Tuolumne that was converted to three apartments; and “three new high-quality manufactured homes in Columbia.”

Barbour said the transition means a limited time stay for the families, with the intent of helping them save money to establish a home of their own.

The presentation to the Planning Commission will detail some of the rules by which participating families must abide.

Story by Jim Reece

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