The Tulare County Board of Supervisors have approved a plan to rezone 718 acres of farmland West and north of Goshen to accommodate both industry and more housing in the future. Specifically the board approved in initiation of a general plan amendment July 22 that would allow development of these lands in the next few years once all environmental studies are complete.The new zoning designation would be “mixed use.”
Most newsworthy is a developer initiated plan to build an industrial park on 190 acres west of Highway 99 and north of the Cross Valley rail track. The project was submitted to the county by developer Panattoni Development of Sacramento in concert with the big real estate firm Colliers International. The project was submitted to the county at their Project Review Committee meeting in June.
The site plan for the proposed warehouses shows 5 large buildings of various sizes that add up to 3,850,000 ft.² clustered along Highway 99 west of the highway and north of the Betty Drive interchange, called Goshen Ranch.
Development of the overall 718 acre plan would require cooperation from the City of Visalia who supplies sewer service to Goshen as well as approval from CalWater who supplies water to the community.
Another newsworthy part of a plan is to rezone 137 acres at the northwest corner of Highway 99 and 198, also currently in agriculture. Associate Director of the Tulare County Resource Management Agency Michael Washam says there’s no specific plan to develop this acreage but the site has been the subject of numerous commercial tire kickers in the past.The site enjoys the highest pass by traffic count in the region.
Besides these industrial and commercial potential projects, Goshen appears slated for more housing projects due to available land there, including this initiative to open more, but depending on sewer capacity from the City of Visalia.San Joaquin Valley Homes and Self Help Enterprises are busy with projects in Goshen now.
Just how the City of Visalia is going to react to these large projects at their doorstep ,just outside the city limits is not yet clear. Recently the City of Visalia initiated their own 900 acre expansion plan for industrial and other commercial development near the airport and along Caldwell Ave south of the airport.
Panattoni Developers Goshen Ranch- 3.85 mil/sf