The Faria/Southwest Hills Project aims to construct up to 1,500 new single-family homes concentrated around the Los Medanos Ridgeline in Pittsburg.
Discovery Builders, an Albert Seeno III company, is planning to build up to 1,500 homes in the hills south of Pittsburg in the Faria development. by 2,400 acres in 2005, that opened the door for a developer who had been eyeing the southwestern hills on the city’s outskirts for years, envisioning thousands of residences lining the sweeping vista.
That battle may come to an end on Wednesday if county officials agree to cede control of 606 acres to Pittsburg — potentially clearing the project’s final hurdle for approval. “I think a whole bunch of issues can be resolved by making a bigger buffer on this county unincorporated land between the development footprint and the edge of Concord” he said in April., a lawsuit arguing that the project would mar the hills and habitat subsequently forced Discovery Builders to redraft environmental reviews, which the Pittsburg City Council, but also meet its state-mandated housing development goals to keep up with its above-average rate of growth in Contra Costa County.
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