Amador County – The Amador County Local Agency Formation Commission discussed potential impacts of schools Thursday before approving an application to annex 11 parcels into Plymouth, pending staff revision of a resolution.

Supervisor Chairman, Commissioner Louis Boitano urged Plymouth in its “Development Agreement” to seek a site for a school. Boitano said “since the last meeting, I have been thinking” about the school district not wanting any land for building a new school.”

Boitano remembered hearing that the school district couldn’t build a school, so they said they would deal with it later. He said: “I think it’s important. That’s why I brought it up. And in 30 years, maybe I can say, I told you.” He said Pine Grove has a school, congested with traffic, with no sidewalks, but “maybe they do not all fit the same.”

Plymouth Councilman Jon Colburn said the Council has discussed it, and a couple of Council members had the same concern. He said school officials thought they could expand on the playground at the Plymouth Elementary School, but they can’t due to a deed restriction on the playground from when it was given to the school for use by the Amador County Fair.

Later, Plymouth Special Counsel Adam Lindgren, discussed the Development Agreement the city will finalize with developers Reeder Sutherland Corporation, for the Zinfandel and Shenandoah Ridge residential developments. He said the Development Agreement was unfinished because they wanted to hear comments from LAFCO.

Boitano said he was “glad to hear that,” and noted his earlier comments about a school site. Boitano urged Plymouth to seek a school site that is centrally located in residential areas.

The projects, approved by Plymouth City Council last October, include 370 single-family homes, planned for 365 acres in the Zinfandel Subdivision site, on the southwest border of Plymouth. The Shenandoah Ridge Subdivision would have another 115 single-family homes on 147 acres, immediately north of city limits, and west of Highway 49.

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