At a special meeting Wednesday night, the Martinez City Council is set to talk, again, about the merits of annexing any of four neighborhoods adjacent to city borders, and whether any of those areas is worth bringing into the city.
The areas to be discussed include North Pacheco, Vine Hill, Mountain View and Alhambra Valley. The first three areas are all off Pacheco Boulevard – North Pacheco straddling Interstate Highway 680, and Vine Hill and Mountain View are off Pacheco Boulevard south of the Shell Martinez refinery.
The Alhambra Valley area is just outside the southwest edge of the city.
For many years, the City of Martinez has processed applications for out-of-agency water service in these areas in anticipation of future annexation, requiring deferred annexation agreements of the property owners.
In May, the City Council identified these annexations as one of the council’s top five goals for the next two years.
Questions to be answered include whether annexation any/all of these areas is financially viable; whether property owners in these areas would support it; whether the council would want to annex properties outside
Contra Costa County’s urban limit line (a consideration for the Alhambra Valley piece), and property tax considerations.
Wednesday’s special-meeting study session begins at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 525 Henrietta St., Martinez.
YES!
In 2007 I worked closely with LAFCO, The City of Concord and CCC. to annex the unincorporated island in Concord at Concord Blvd, Bailey east to
Ygnacio VB. Our goal was to bring a sewer main to badly needed sick septic tanks. The positives out weigh the negatives, residence need to understand this is a move forward. Educate yourselves with an open mind and understand both sides thoroughly.
Lol, “educate yourselves”. So how much will it cost those homeowners ~ $25,000? Or more???
As newer residents in the area you are discussing, we educated ourselves with an open mind and found that for us, the negatives far outweighed the positives. Fortunately the majority of our neighbors felt the same. Happy to be living in our little county bubble!
Well you’ll get better police services and with faster response times.
Not knocking the Sheriff’s Office because they are a professional organization but the Office has too much real estate to patrol with too few deputies to partol it.
I recently left Vine Hill. The place is a dump. It is loud, smells bad and we had 3 shootings within a mile of us last year. There is little street lighting, has a homeless and drug problems and the local elementary school is a 3/10. And you will always know that it is 11am on the first Wednesday of the month since that is when the test sirens go off at the refinery.
Not sure what Martinez will actually want to do with it.
Gag.
Anut: Guess what an engineered septic system costs? HaHa, much wiser and less expensive to hook into to sewer if possible…Daaa.
Concord PD does not respond to the Concord Island. We get to wait for officers from Alamo, Antioch or Martinez.
Whom are you replying to?
Concord PD does respond to Ayers Ranch in emergency situations.