The History of Measure H

The first Clover Valley plan was approved in 1998, allowing the owners of this private land to build 927 homes, with little open space and few protections for Native American sacred sites.

But a number of community groups asked for a more balanced approach — one that honored the private property rights of the Clover Valley owners, while preserving open space and sacred Indian sites, and protecting Rocklin against sprawl and more congestion.

After years of negotiations and much input from city officials, community groups, local tribal leaders and the owners of Clover Valley, a compromise plan was finally agreed to  — and unanimously approved by the Rocklin City Council and the Rocklin Planning Commission.

The plan, which will appear on the February 5, 2008, ballot as Measure H, cuts the number of homes nearly in half — from 927 to 558.  It also prevents sprawl by guaranteeing that 60% of Clover Valley will remain permanent open space — a 552% increase over the original plan.

In addition, the plan reduces traffic congestion with a new two-lane road connecting New Park Drive and Sierra College Boulevard – speeding commute time and cutting emergency response time by over half for police, fire and ambulance service.

So we can all enjoy the beauty of Clover Valley, which has been closed to the public for decades, the plan creates a new five-acre park and over two miles of hiking and biking trails with full public access.

To protect the area's Native American heritage, the plan protects sacred Indian sites and gives some of the land to the United Auburn Indian Community for a Native American museum. While the tribe opposed the previous plan, it supports this new revised plan.

If Measure H is defeated, the owners of Clover Valley will have the legal right to develop their land according to the original plan — twice the number of houses and far less open space.  To prevent it, the city would be forced to buy the property, costing taxpayers millions of dollars.