From the Eldridge For All website https://eldridgeforall.org/news-flash

This is great news, but....

The transfer of 650 acres of the SDC open space to State Parks is a huge win for our environment and certainly something to celebrate. A big “thank you” to all who have advocated for permanent protection of these environmentally sensitive acres for so many years.

However, developer Keith Rogal's plans to build out the SDC core campus to the tune of 930 housing units, a four-story hotel, a four-story “innovation center,” 8,000 square feet of nonresidential construction and 3,060 parking spaces will undoubtedly inflict irreparable harm, not only on the surrounding community, but on the newly protected acres as well.

The outsized scale of Rogal's project will bring more traffic to further stretch our already compromised wildfire evacuation capacity, more greenhouse gas emissions, more light and noise pollution, etc. Furthermore, that Rogal has moved the original location of the hotel from the center of the campus to the outer edge of its northwest corner displays utter disregard for the wildlife corridor, the animals that depend on its change

 for their very survival, and for the vast majority of the local community opposed to the hotel in the first place. Thankfully, the lawsuit challenging the SDC Specific Plan EIR is moving forward; Rogal’s deal is definitely not done. For more on the lawsuit, please click HERE to visit the Sonoma Community Advocates for a Liveable Environment website.