Strada Verde will add 25,000 vehicles to local roads every day. This will cause major traffic congestion, making it harder for residents to do daily errands like picking up their kids from school or going to doctor’s appointments.

Overdevelopment of San Benito County has already destroyed too much of the agricultural beauty that the county is known for. This project would destroy farmland and create extra pressure on our infrastructure and the developers would fund less than 5% of the necessary costs for transportation improvements - leaving taxpayers on the hook for the other 95%.

The proposed project sits directly next to a chemical plant that handles dangerous chemicals every day. This plant was intentionally placed far from urban development to avoid the possibility of people being exposed to chemicals known to cause birth defects, lung diseases and even death. The increased traffic to and from the site will also create more pollution from vehicle exhaust and diesel fueled tractor-trailers - polluting our farmland and our lungs.

In 2020, the voters of San Benito County rejected Strada Verde at the ballot box in a landslide. Almost 60% of voters in the county came together to stop this dangerous project, but out-of-town developers -- Newport Pacific Land, Chenco Holding and Floriani Development -- are still pushing the project. The Board of Supervisors wants to ignore voters and push the project through without our consent. We can’t let them waste more taxpayer money and ignore what our county really needs.