Kingsburg studies moving City Hall to Hwy 99

Kingsburg’s City Hall is in the heart of the famed “Swedish Village” but the town’s leaders now are floating a plan to pick up and move administrative offices to a future 18,500 square-foot building on Highway 99.

“We love being downtown” says City Manager Alex Henderson, “but we’re just out of room.”

The City is processing an environmental document on a vacant 13-acre parcel of land along Highway 99 that will need to be annexed to be developed. The parcel is on the west side of 99 and would be the furthest extension of the city’s boundaries to the north on that side of the highway, toward Selma’s city limits.

Kingsburg carries on with its Swedish-themed stores, restaurants  and architecture dating from the 1920s when some ninety-four percent of the population in a three-mile radius of Kingsburg were Swedish-American.

Henderson says the plan to build the new City Hall is preliminary and community input will be sought to see just how the parcel will be used. Kingsburg Swedish-style architecture is mandated under development standards regulated by the City’s zoning ordinance.

The environmental document for the proposed annexation calls for mitigated negative declaration.