Dispute over Gas Station Erupts into Legal Battle in Sacramento
- Josh Stephens
- Jan 3, 2017
- 5 min read
Paul Petrovich first started working on his Curtis Park Village development in the early 2000s. In a saga whose 15-year duration would surprise no one involved with urban land use in California, Petrovich produced countless iterations of his mixed-use infill project with 267 homes and a retail center on a 79-acre former rail yard in a close-in neighborhood in Sacramento. By his count, Petrovich produced an environmental impact report 2,000 pages long and, after over 200 community meetings, made 43 concessions to a group of neighbors that commented on project.

