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Community Services District General Manager Ed Crouse answered questions about CSD’s planning for the community’s water needs at the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors’ meeting in Sacramento Wednesday. Few attended the meeting, prompting Supervisor Jimmie Yee to remark, “I’m surprised we don’t have some more residents here at this.”

The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors received an independent peer review of  the Rancho Murieta Community Services District’s water and wastewater planning Wednesday, making it part of the record for future development. “This was a very, very important step as a precursor to doing a master plan update at some future date,” said Supervisor Don Nottoli.  Read more »

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[Full story published Aug. 20] The Rancho Murieta Community Services District board of directors heard from a former board president and released a letter answering claims that have been made about water availability and CSD drought planning at its meeting Wednesday.  Read more »

The Rancho Murieta Association and the Community Services District hold their monthly board meetings this week, the RMA Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. and the CSD Wednesday at 5 p.m. Due to a technical issue, RanchoMurieta.com will not offer live video coverage of this month's meetings. Instead, video recordings will be available for viewing the next morning.  We will return to live video coverage for next month's meetings.  Read more »

See the first draft of the North Gate traffic design

The Rancho Murieta Association’s determination to keep the left turn onto Lago Drive is the driving force in the new traffic design for the North Gate. RMA General Manager Nick Arther said engineers for the Pension Trust Fund for Operating Engineers had opposed the turn but came up with a design that a Maintenance Committee member called “not a lot different from what we have now” to accommodate the RMA’s insistence. Although the Community Services District Security Committee saw the plan last week and found it lacking, the RMA Maintenance Committee voted Monday to recommend the plan to the RMA board.  Read more »

See the first draft of the design (PDF)

A first cut at a traffic design for the much-anticipated rebuild of the North Gate has arrived. Now the question is, will it meet the community's goals for the project?  Read more »

Related: Three file to run unopposed for CSD board

Past and present Rancho Murieta Community Services District directors on Thursday denied claims that CSD studies have been manipulated to show the community has sufficient water for additional development.  They were responding to claims made this summer by development critic Janis Eckard, but the CSD replies didn’t offer specifics about Eckard’s supposed inaccuracies.  Read more »

As of Friday’s 5 p.m. deadline, three candidates had filed to run for three Community Services District board seats this fall. Two of those running are incumbents and the third is a former board member.  Read more »

Residents interested in running for the Rancho Murieta Community Services District board of directors have until 5 p.m., Aug. 6, to file a declaration of candidacy with the registrar of voters, at 7000 65th St., Sacramento.  Read more »

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[News briefs published July 20 and 21] Questions about the community’s water planning remain unresolved after seven hours of meetings this week.  Development critic Janis Eckard (photo) claims the community would be deprived of water for landscaping and possibly for drinking and fighting fires during a severe drought because the Rancho Murieta Community Services District’s drought planning for the community requires a 50 percent reduction in water use during a 200-year drought, such as the state experienced in 1976-77.  Read more »

The Rancho Murieta Association and the Community Services District hold their monthly board meetings this week, the RMA Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. and the CSD Wednesday at 5 p.m.  Read more »