How fast is Grass Valley growing?
Grass Valley isn’t growing as quickly as the projections were for our previous general plan. Possibly we might get to 2% a year but it has not reached that peak. Certainly with the economy and the way the state economy is, we’re not looking at exceeding anywhere near that. A lot of our young people don’t even live in this community, because they can’t afford to. They live outside Nevada County and they commute here. And when I say those young people I’m speaking of our healthcare workers, some of my police dept. and the fire department. So that’s a big issue for our community at this time, is providing housing for our school teachers, and police officers, and healthcare workers. How are you addressing that? Well, we’ve had a task force in place for unfortunately, several years. The city of Grass Valley has an opportunity with some pending annexations, and certainly we sit in the driver’s seat to decide how those properties are going to come into the city, how those are going to be deve
