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Fair Oaks CP

Sacramento County Community Plans
Fair Oaks Community Plan

Section titled “Sacramento County Community Plans Fair Oaks Community Plan”

Adopted January 8, 1975
Adopted by Resolution 1974-0012

This document encompasses the adopted community plan for the unincorporated community of Fair Oaks. It embodies recommended goals and objectives, proposed development policies, a recommended pattern of future land uses throughout the community area and the various public facilities such as streets, schools, parks, and so forth which will be needed to serve the proposed land uses.

For planning purposes, the Fair Oaks community has been established as that area bounded by the American River on the south, San Juan Avenue on the west, Madison Avenue on the north, and Blue Ravine (the large drainage area draining toward Mississippi Bar on the American River) on the east. This is an area of about 17,200 population in 1973 and is utilized primarily for suburban and semi-rural residential development.

This adopted community plan has been prepared by the Sacramento County Planning Department working with a Citizens Advisory Committee organized by the Board of Supervisors. With staff assistance, the Committee developed a set of Goals and Objectives which they adopted after a public forum in January 1973. The staff then prepared this plan, with Committee input, to reflect the Goals and Objectives.

The community plan is a more detailed and precise document than the County General Plan, which has provided broad guidelines in the past. The Board of Supervisors adopted the Fair Oaks Community Plan on January 8, 1975, to serve as a guide for future development by both private parties and public agencies. It is appropriate to review the plan at intervals in the future to reflect new criteria, tastes, and policies. The plan should be re-evaluated frequently enough to remain a guide to development which will provide the kind of community the inhabitants desire.

Download the Fair Oaks Community Plan. This is an archived document.