Contra Costa Climate Action Coalition

12/22/2023

We are thankful for your support this year and want to wish you and yours a Happy Holiday and New Year full of joy and hope.

07/22/2023

SAVE THE DATE! Tuesday, July 25th at 7PM the Brentwood City Council will be discussing and voting on the controversial Costco warehouse and mega gas station being proposed on Lone Tree Way across from Home Depot. This will be built and will add 10,000-15,000 new daily vehicle trips per day to our local roads without any meaningful plans to offset this increase to traffic and longer commute times. Below is more information on how you can participate.

In Person: Please fill out a speaker’s card with the City Clerk on the form provided on the counter at the back of the Chambers. The meeting is at City Council Chambers at 150 City Park Way, Brentwood, CA 94513.

Zoom: Please use the Raise Your Hand feature in Zoom during this item to speak under Public Comments. Zoom Link: https://brentwoodca-gov.zoom.us/j/76013970037

Link to the Agenda: https://pub-brentwood.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=dd4dc806-66b5-4921-9762-ef8710b7e495&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/20/seeno-asks-city-to-deny-approval-of-new-east-bay-costco/

Seeno attorneys say Costco plans need further environmental review.

06/20/2023

TODAY IS THE DAY! Public Hearing Tuesday, June 20th at 7PM at Brentwood City Hall (150 City Park Way), on Costco’s plans to build a massive 152,000 sq. ft. warehouse and huge 32-pump gas station on undeveloped, open space just south of Lone Tree Plaza Drive, across from Home Depot and Kohls, and along the Antioch and Brentwood city borders.

Please participate and SPEAK OUT! This is being rushed through to approval and will not even be reviewed by the City Council unless we demand it!

Developer also plans to include tire center and a gas station.

06/20/2023

Just a reminder to please consider participating in the Public Hearing Tuesday, June 20th at 7PM at Brentwood City Hall (150 City Park Way), on Costco’s plans to build a massive 152,000 sq. ft. warehouse and huge 32-pump gas station on undeveloped, open space just south of Lone Tree Plaza Drive, across from Home Depot and Kohls, and along the Antioch and Brentwood city borders!

How to Participate in the Planning Commission Meeting on the Proposed Costco

IN PERSON: Members of the public can provide in-person comments in the Council Chambers (150 City Park Way in Brentwood) at the public hearing on July 20th. Members of the public are encouraged, but not required, to fill out a speaker card. The Council Chambers will have seating available for members of the public to attend in person up to full seating capacity.

REMOTE: Zoom: https://www.brentwoodca.gov/planningmeetingonline or Zoom Webinar ID: 87350296630
Zoom Phone Numbers. Dial Toll Free: (877) 853-5247 or (888) 788-0099 or (833) 548- 0276. During the meeting, each period for public comment will be announced, and participant may use the “Raise Hand” feature on Zoom to request to speak. If calling in via Zoom use *9 to raise and lower your hand. The meeting host will call on you, by name, and enable your microphone when it is your turn to speak. In order to ensure the orderly administration of the meeting using this method, providing your name is encouraged, but is not required.

E-MAIL: Public comments can also be submitted via e-mail to [email protected]. Any public comments received up until 5:00 p.m. of the meeting date will be distributed to the Planning Commission via email before the meeting and in person before the meeting in the Chambers.

For more information and to get involved email [email protected] and follow us on Facebook.

Here is a link to the public notice for the hearing: https://www.brentwoodca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/7551/638221614697272649

06/15/2023

URGENT! Public Hearing Tuesday, June 20th at 7PM at Brentwood City Hall (150 City Park Way), on Costco’s plans to build a massive 152,000 sq. ft. warehouse and huge 32-pump gas station on undeveloped, open space just south of Lone Tree Plaza Drive, across from Home Depot and Kohls, and along the Antioch and Brentwood city borders.

The Brentwood Planning Commission appears poised to rush this massive development through their approval process without requiring a standard Environmental Impact Report (EIR) or comprehensive studies on the negative impacts the project will have on traffic, commute and emergency response times, public safety, noise and light pollution, air quality and on our existing businesses and jobs in the area.

Few people who live near the proposed site are even aware of this project and the impacts that it is going to have on their daily quality of life and the environment. The city of Brentwood needs to slow things down and require that an EIR be conducted so that we know for sure what impacts this project will have on the community and what Costco needs to do to mitigate and minimize those impacts. Costco should not be given a free ride and thousands of dollars in taxpayer money for infrastructure upgrades, to support their store and profits!

If you stand by and do nothing, this will be approved on Tuesday, along with all of the many negative impacts that will come with it. Please join us in attending and submitting comments at the Planning Commission hearing this TUESDAY 7/20 at 7PM!

How to Participate in the Planning Commission Meeting on the Proposed Costco

IN PERSON: Members of the public can provide in-person comments in the Council Chambers (150 City Park Way in Brentwood) at the public hearing on July 20th. Members of the public are encouraged, but not required, to fill out a speaker card. The Council Chambers will have seating available for members of the public to attend in person up to full seating capacity.

REMOTE: Zoom: https://www.brentwoodca.gov/planningmeetingonline or Zoom Webinar ID: 87350296630
Zoom Phone Numbers. Dial Toll Free: (877) 853-5247 or (888) 788-0099 or (833) 548- 0276. During the meeting, each period for public comment will be announced, and participant may use the “Raise Hand” feature on Zoom to request to speak. If calling in via Zoom use *9 to raise and lower your hand. The meeting host will call on you, by name, and enable your microphone when it is your turn to speak. In order to ensure the orderly administration of the meeting using this method, providing your name is encouraged, but is not required.

E-MAIL: Public comments can also be submitted via e-mail to [email protected]. Any public comments received up until 5:00 p.m. of the meeting date will be distributed to the Planning Commission via email before the meeting and in person before the meeting in the Chambers.

For more information and to get involved email [email protected] and follow us on Facebook.

Here is a link to the public notice for the hearing: https://www.brentwoodca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/7551/638221614697272649

03/07/2023

In case you had not heard, Costco has applied to build a 152,000 sq. ft. warehouse and massive 32-pump gas station, on 23 acres of open space, just to the south of the Lone Tree Plaza shopping center in west Brentwood, near the Antioch/Brentwood city limits, by Hwy 4, Heidorn Ranch Rd, and Lone Tree Plaza Drive. Here is a link to their latest plans for the site: https://www.brentwoodca.gov/Home/Components/FlexDevelopmentProjectsCommercial/DevelopmentProjectsCommercial/2292430/617

While we do not have problems with Costco as a business or employer, we do have concerns that the City of Brentwood appears poised to rush this massive development through their approval process without requiring a standard Environmental Impact Report (EIR) or comprehensive studies on the negative impacts the project will have on traffic, commute and emergency response times, public safety, noise and light pollution, air quality and on our existing businesses and jobs in the area. We are demanding that an EIR be conducted before Costco is allowed to begin construction.

We have also learned that despite the fact that hundreds of Antioch homes and families are located closest to the proposed development, the City of Antioch is not playing any role in the decision-making for this project and will not be sharing in any of the promised sales tax revenues that would help support community services and in dealing with all of the new traffic issues this project will cause for Antioch neighbors if approved! There is also the very real possibility that Costco will eventually close their Antioch store, if/when the Brentwood store is approved, which means that Antioch residents will lose all that tax revenue from the existing store, while absorbing all the negative impacts from the new Brentwood store.

The site is also at the foot of the $13 million dollar pedestrian and bicyclist bridge that is currently being built over Highway 4 for the Mokelumne Aqueduct Coast to Crest Regional Trail. The Bridge is expected to generate significant additional pedestrian and bicycle trips, once it opens in September of this year. The proposed Costco is expected to generate between 8,000 and 10,000 new car trips per day, with hundreds of bicyclists and pedestrians literally being dropped from the new bridge into Costco’s busy parking lot. The City of Brentwood needs to require some mitigations to increase the safety for the many pedestrians and bicyclists who will be traveling in the vicinity of the proposed store.

We will post more updates about this major proposed development on this page as we get them, but please also consider sending us an email at [email protected] to learn more and to get involved!

12/31/2022

Wishing you and yours a healthy and great New Year! Thank you for your support this last year, we look forward to seeing what 2023 brings.

12/24/2022

We want to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

11/26/2022

Shop small and support our local independent businesses today....and every day!

11/24/2022

Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

09/22/2022

If you haven’t heard, Costco has filed plans to build a massive 152,000 sq. ft. warehouse and huge 32-pump gas station on undeveloped, open space just south of Lone Tree Plaza Drive, across from Home Depot and Kohls, and along the Antioch and Brentwood city borders.

While we don’t have problems with Costco as a business or employer, we do have concerns that the City of Brentwood appears poised to rush this massive development through their approval process without requiring a standard Environmental Impact Report (EIR) or comprehensive studies on the negative impacts the project will have on traffic, commute and emergency response times, public safety, noise and light pollution, air quality and on our existing businesses and jobs in the area.

We have also learned that despite the fact that Antioch homes and families are located closest to the proposed development, the City of Antioch is not playing any role in the decision-making for this project and will not be sharing in any of the promised sales tax revenues that would help support community services and in dealing with all of the new traffic issues this project will cause for Antioch neighbors if approved!

CONTACT your Antioch City Council Members and ask them to demand a seat at the decision table for this big development that will impact your commute times, public safety, property values, environment and quality of life.

The Antioch City Council needs to ask that a full and comprehensive EIR be conducted to determine project impacts on Antioch residents and for a fair and equitable share of all sales tax revenues, with City of Brentwood, to help offset project impacts to Antioch residents and city emergency services.

Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe:
[email protected] / (925) 978-4663

District 3 Councilmember Lori Ogorchock: [email protected] / (925) 628-7764

District 4 Councilmember Monica Wilson:
[email protected] / (925) 628-0749

For more information and to get involved email
[email protected]