Politics & Government
UCD Development Would Knock Down 200+ Trees
The land was donated to UC Davis by the farm owner's daughters with the intention of funding scholarships for the school of medicine.
UC Davis has made an application to Sacramento County for a 17-parcel subdivision map that would include the removal of 208 trees and a historic ranch in Fair Oaks.
The land was donated to UC Davis by the farm owner’s daughters with the intention of funding scholarships for the school of medicine, . Money made from the 7-acre development would be used to fund those scholarships.
According to the development proposal, the project would remove trees possibly as old as the ranch itself, which would make them older than the city of Fair Oaks. The majority of those trees being oaks, but also pines, olive, orange, palm, juniper and sycamore, just to name a few.
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