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ELK GROVE (CBS13) — The Sacramento Zoo is present looking to Elk Grove arsenic a imaginable caller site, officials announced connected Thursday.
A 60-acre information of a 98-acre parcel disconnected Kammerer Road is present being analyzed.
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“Our archetypal precedence is ever doing what is champion for the animals,” said Zoological Society Board President Elizabeth Stallard successful a statement.
The zoo has been looking astatine and studying a caller imaginable determination successful Sacramento for astir 4 years. Its existent Land Park tract is lone 14.7 acres – offering nary country to grow and severely constricted parking for guests.
Back successful 2020, officials released a feasibility survey that named Natomas Regional Park arsenic the preferred tract for the zoo the relocate.
Those plans present look to beryllium connected the backmost burner arsenic the zoo takes a look astatine Elk Grove.
“When we archetypal learned of the zoo’s hunt for a caller home, we knew the task would beryllium a cleanable acceptable and would align with the City’s values, said Elk Grove Mayor Bobbie Singh-Allen successful a statement. “The Elk Grove tract volition let the zoo to go 1 of the country’s world-class zoos portion honoring its astir 100-year past and practice successful the Sacramento region.”
Some assemblage members person besides pushed for the zoo to instrumentality implicit the aged Sleep Train Arena site. However, earlier successful 2021, Sacramento metropolis leaders announced that California Northstate University volition beryllium redeveloping the tract into a teaching hospital.
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The imaginable Elk Grove determination of the zoo volition present acquisition six months of valuation and negotiation, zoo and metropolis leaders say.
CBS13 Staff
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