Special Board of Supervisors meeting on transportation issues

Citizens Alliance thanks go to District 1 Supervisor John Knight for initiating a very rare meeting of the Board of Supervisors in El Dorado Hills to consider two transportation issues of compelling importance to EDH.  These are:

• Silva Valley Interchange with US 50
• Capital Southeast Connector

The Silva Valley Interchange project is essential to increase capacity of the EDH road network for access to and from US 50 This is especially important for rising traffic levels in the Town Center area and on Silva Valley Parkway.

The Capital Southeast Connector is a long-term project to develop a route for regional traffic, currently planned to have end points in El Dorado Hills and in Elk Grove. Choice of route at the El Dorado Hills end is critical to ability to maintain adequate traffic flow in the future for our Town Center and Business Park areas, as well as in several residential areas south of US 50.


EDCTC Citizens Advisory Committee Town Hall meeting

Assembly member Alyson Huber and the El Dorado County Transportation Commission (EDCTC) are cooperatively staging  a series of 6 Town Hall meetings in a public outreach effort directed toward determining how best to provide fair representation to all parts of the County. The core question is membership on the El Dorado County Transportation Commission, whose voting membership currently consists of three members appointed by the County Board of Supervisors and three more appointed by the City of Placerville.

This composition of EDCTC's board dates from 1971, when El Dorado Hills was basically a community in its infancy. Since then we have grown to become county's largest actual city, referring to "city" as a center of population and economic activity.

The Citizens Alliance supports Alyson Huber's incentive to update state law, to refine makeup of the transportation commission in a way more appropriate to our times and our needs.  This meeting is our best opportunity to communicate our needs as part of the process that should ultimately produce specific legislation.


Anyone who is unable to attend the Town Hall meeting in El Dorado Hills can still participate at two meetings in other communities:

August 25 -- Pioneer Park 6740 Fairplay Road, Somerset	October 6 -- El Dorado Hills Library 7455 Silva Valley Parkway, EDH
September 8 -- Georgetown community Center (formerly Masonic Lodge #25) 6329 Lower Main, Georgetown	October 20 -- El Dorado County Fairgrounds Organ Room 100 Placerville Drive, Placerville
September 22 -- Camino School - Old Gym 3060 Snows Road, Camino	November 3 -- Cameron Park CSD Social Center 3200 Country Club Drive, Cameron Park