Daniel Johnson, SONOMA INDEX-TRIBUNE
• Hanna Center has canceled its 60-acre development plan to focus on strengthening mental health and community programs.
• New initiatives include a community mental health center and expanded residential services for youth.
• Hanna Center aims to enhance collaboration and sustainability while serving Sonoma Valley effectively.
Hanna Center officials have confirmed they are dropping ambitious housing and commercial development plans on a 60-acre property next to their sprawling campus in Sonoma Valley, where neighbors’ concerns about the project’s scale and issues such as wildfire evacuation clouded its future.
It was one of the largest proposed developments in Sonoma Valley, calling for more than 600 homes in various types of housing as well as a hotel, retail and office development and open space off Agua Caliente Road next to the 76-year-old center, a residential campus for at-risk youth that also provides some services for adults.
Concerned neighbors said it would overtax water and sewage systems and worsen traffic congestion, which could be particularly problematic in the event of a wildfire.
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