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Changes proposed for Feather River Center, Yuba College area
Feb 14, 2012 (Appeal-Democrat - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
Under a Yuba County plan discussed Tuesday, reinvesting in east Linda could mean significant changes for two of its most identifiable institutions.
The former Peach Tree Mall and now Feather River Center, largely vacant for more than two decades, could be transformed into a modern shopping center with housing at its edges and a plaza in the middle under the plan.
And undeveloped land north and east of Yuba College could grow into a combination of retail and housing to make the college area more of a small community and less of an in-out destination.
But county planner Dan Cucchi, who introduced the plan to the Yuba County Board of Supervisors at Tuesday's board meeting, said he'd caution against seeing the plan as iron clad rather than suggestive.
"We're not set in stone to do any of this," Cucchi said, though elements of it, if deemed workable, could eventually be part of county zoning code updates. "It gives us ideas."
Supervisors suggested a few tweaks to the reinvestment plan, many of them centered on the understanding developers and businesses won't commit to anything if fees and entitlements cost too much in east Linda.
The full plan, which also discussed concepts of improving traffic movement and beatification within east Linda, will be brought before the board again for formal approval in two weeks.
CONTACT Ben van der Meer at bvandermeer@appealdemocrat.com or 749-4786. Find him on Facebook at /ADbvandermeer or on Twitter at @ADbvandermeer.
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