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May 8, 2003

Report blasts builder's plan

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In contrast, a Suisun City waterfront development received honors by the the Transportation and Land Use Coalition as the county's best.

The report, by a coalition of environmental, housing and transportation groups in the Bay Area, focused on such smart growth goals as revitalizing neighborhoods, creating housing near jobs and transit, preserving open space and preserving affordable housing.

Triad Communities' proposed Lagoon Valley project would include 1,277 luxury homes and a golf course across 730 acres, along with 1 million square feet of office and commercial space on another 88 acres.

Triad's Tom Egidio said the plan is getting a bum rap.

"What comes with it is a golf course that creates habitat and some money to clean up Lagoon Lake. Right now (the lake is) just about 6-feet across and overgrown. You can't use it," he said.

Natalie DuMont, of Solano County's Greenbelt Alliance, disagreed. "In our perspective, it's exactly the wrong place for development."

Suisun City's Delta Cove, on the other hand, is a model project, according to the study. Delta Cove has nine homes per acre, compared to the Lagoon Valley proposal of 1.75 homes per acres.

Mike Rice, president of Suisun City-based Miller-Sorg Group Inc., developed Delta Cove.

"We always prefer trying to get density close to some form of transportation. This is a live-work community located in downtown Suisun. People have the ability to open up their own shop in their own house," Rice said.

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