[wburg]

Has anyone been following the Greenbriar annexation? Apparently AK Tsakopoulis owns 500 or so acres north of North Natomas, and wants to build a new greenfield suburb on it. It's in the zone that just got de-certified from 100 year flood status, so nothing could be built until after the levees get fixed. RT is backing it because they think it could be a "transit-oriented village" stop on the DNA Light Rail line to the airport, although how and when they'll get Light Rail there through Natomas is still anybody's guess. Normally building the subdivision before the transit guarantees that the transit will never arrive (see North Natomas, which was also supposed to be a "transit-oriented village built without the benefit of transit.)

Methinks "transit-oriented village" is the new word for "suburb." There are other issues to consider--such as the fact that these suburbs, whoops, I mean "transit-oriented villages", are creeping closer and closer to the airport, and whether the folks who move there might suddenly realize that not only do they live in a flood zone and the promised Light Rail line may not arrive until they're ready to move to the retirement home, but that they're on the southern end of an airport runway.