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Vehicles drive along West Texas Street at the Interstate 80 offramp in Fairfield, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022.
City plans sendup for West Texas Street offramp project
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FAIRFIELD — The city is inviting the public to the West Texas Street offramp ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Fairfield Transportation Center, 2000 Cadenasso Drive. The ceremony will take place outdoors with Covid-19 protocols in place, including social distancing and masks. The event will also be broadcast live on the city’s Facebook page. The work was completed as part of the city’s West Texas Gateway and Fairfield Transportation Center Slip-Ramp Improvement Project. The Transportation Center slip ramp improvements were made at the eastbound Interstate 80 offramp and West Texas Street and include reconfiguring the intersection to improve pedestrian, bicycle and transit access and safety around the transportation center, to include West Texas Street and the Linear Trail. The project also included: n The addition of a sidewalk along the south side of West Texas Street, building a path to connect West Texas and the Fairfield Transportation Center to the Linear Park Trail.
The construction of a transit-only access ramp directly into the Fairfield Transportation Center bus bay is part of the West Texas Street offramp project. n A new crosswalk to serve as a new access point from West Texas Street to the transportation center. n Construction of a transitonly access ramp directly into the transportation center bus bay. n Modification of the West Texas Street/eastbound I-80 offramp traffic signal. The project is a component of the Heart of Fairfield Specific Plan that will facilitate the development of approximately
1,600 new multifamily residential units, the replacement of seven single-family units (e.g., redeveloped properties), 72,000 square feet of net new retail space and 71,000 square feet of net new office space by 2040, the city reports. For more information about the project or the ceremony, contact Public Works Assistant Engineer Phil Layoso at playoso@fairfield. ca.gov or call 707-428-7505.
Planning commission OKs Pleasants Valley riding center improvements Todd R. Hansen
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The Solano Count y Planning Commission authorized an amended use permit to allow horse shows and facility additions at the Pleasants Valley Riding Arena, Thursday. SUNDAY
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FAIRFIELD — Edward and Joetta Griffin will soon be able to hold horse shows at their Pleasants Valley Riding Arena, Horse Boarding and Training Facility. The Solano County Planning Commission Thursday night unanimously approved the use permit amendment that allows for the horse shows and approves the addition of four accessory buildings and living quarters for one employee. The 67.64-acre ranch, part of a larger 107-acre site that includes miles of riding trails, is located at 7680 Pleasants Valley Road. “He’s got a great facility there,” said Vance Mason, of Vacaville, whose family traces its ranching heritage in Solano back to 1862. “He does a lot with kids. It
is very well set up . . . It’s just a great facility.” Mason also noted that the facility is “fire safe,” and defended well against the LNU Lightning Complex Fire so it is a good place for animals to be kept. Rusty Milliken, son of Joetta Griffin and a part owner who lives on the site, attended to answer any questions. The commission asked about entering and leaving the facility and was assured, by Commissioner Kay Cayler, that the gate area into the property is well designed. Traffic also was deemed by county staff not to be a significant impact. Noise was also a topic that was raised by the commission. In addition to the county conditions placed on the project, the site’s location among hills that See Center, Page A9
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WASHINGTON — The White House on Thursday sought to clarify remarks by President Biden about the consequences of a “minor incursion” by Russia into Ukraine that appeared to undermine weeks of intense U.S.-led diplomacy aimed at stopping an invasion of the former Soviet republic. Officials in Kyiv reacted angrily to Biden’s comments at a news conference Wednesday in which he appeared to wobble on backing Ukraine if it were attacked by its larger neighbor. An array of U.S. lawmakers and world leaders also expressed dismay at Biden’s comments, with some saying the president appeared to offer his Russian counterpart
a green light to launch a limited invasion. The White House and Western leaders spent Thursday trying to clean up the damage, with Biden telling reporters he has been “absolutely clear with President Putin. He has no misunderstanding. If any – any – assembled Russian units move across the Ukrainian border, that is an invasion . . . It would be met with severe and coordinated economic response.” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in London that “any kind of incursion into Ukraine, on any scale whatever, would be a disaster, not just for Ukraine, but for Russia.” And NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on CNN called for “Russia not to See Biden, Page A9
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The Camp fire burns near Pulga in 2018. The blaze was linked to maintenance delays on PG&E power lines.
Judge rips PG&E as ‘continuing menace’ to state over wildfires Tribune Content Agency SACRAMENTO — PG&E Corp.’s five years of criminal probation are ending, but not before the supervising judge delivered one last blistering lecture about its troubled safety record and suggested that California’s largest utility be carved in two. U.S. District Judge William Alsup, in an extraordinary eight-page “final comments” filed Wednesday, complained that conditions had dramatically worsened despite the company’s efforts to reform.
“While on probation, PG&E has set at least 31 wildfires, burned nearly (1.5) million acres, burned 23,956 structures, and killed 113 Californians,” he wrote. “PG&E has gone on a crime spree and will emerge from probation as a continuing menace to California.” During the probation period, which ends Jan. 26, Alsup frequently sparred with PG&E lawyers over the company’s missteps and demanded extensive reports on what PG&E was doing to improve conditions on the ground. See Menace, Page A9
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