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An artist’s rendering released by the Judicial Council of California shows the proposed new Downtown Fresno courthouse.<\/p>\n
California court officials announced the launch of an environmental impact report on the $750 million proposed courthouse for Downtown Fresno.<\/p>\n
The Judicial Council of California will host a community meeting inviting feedback on the project on Wednesday, Dec. 11, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Fresno Courthouse jury assembly room.<\/p>\n
The 11-story building would be built on a 2.09-acre parcel and include 36 courtrooms and a total of 413,000 square feet of space.<\/p>\n
The Judicial Council\u2019s preferred site is located a stone\u2019s throw north of the existing Fresno County Courthouse, and would involve the demolition of the existing sheriff headquarters and south annex jail building.<\/p>\n
A secondary site would be located on open space in courthouse park near the corner of Fresno Street and Van Ness Avenue. A third option is a vacant parcel at the corner of Fresno and M streets just east of the Fresno County Jail.<\/p>\n
The Judicial Council of California approved the replacement of the nearly 60-year-old main Downtown Fresno courthouse<\/a> in 2023. It includes more than $42 million in deferred maintenance liabilities.<\/p>\n \u00a0The new courthouse will also replace the North Annex Jail and M Street Courthouse, which is leased.<\/p>\n The project is currently in the acquisition phase. Construction is estimated to begin in November 2028 and complete in November 2031.<\/p>\n The project will be delivered through a design-build process.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Judicial Council, acting as the Judicial Branch of State government, is not subject to local land use regulations; however, the Judicial Council, as appropriate, considers local policies in evaluating whether the proposed Project\u2019s impacts would be significant,\u201d according to a notice of preparation for a draft EIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An artist’s rendering released by the Judicial Council of California shows the proposed new Downtown Fresno courthouse. California…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-79115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}