Action Alert: Public Comment on the Redding Riverfront Plan
The City of Redding has started a formal process to decide what will be studied in the Environmental Impact Report EIR for the Redding Riverfront Specific Plan. This step is called scoping.
Scoping happens before the Draft EIR is written. At this stage, the City is asking what issues, locations, and types of impacts must be included in the analysis. They are not approving buildings or a final design. They are deciding what the EIR has to look at in detail.
For the riverfront, this means the EIR can either look closely at things like native plants, wildlife, access to the water, traffic from events, and changes to public land use. Or it can treat some of those items as minor background issues. What is written into the scope now will shape how strong or weak the EIR is later.
Shasta Environmental Alliance has submitted its own scoping letter. Our letter asks the City to closely study how a hospitality and events focus would affect the river, wildlife, neighborhoods, and everyday users; what the plan means for public land, access, and parking; how it will change the southern riverfront; how Highway 44 and access routes will be affected; and how any future changes to the plan will be handled and reviewed.
Individual comments are also important. The City needs to hear from people who already use the riverfront and would be affected if it shifts toward a visitor hospitality and events focus.
How you can comment
Written comments on scoping for the EIR are due by Monday, March 2, 2026 at 5 p.m.
You can send comments by email to: [email protected]
Suggested subject line:
Redding Riverfront Specific Plan EIR Scoping Comments
We have created a short template that you can use to make this easy. It focuses on how you use the riverfront now and what you are concerned about losing if it becomes a hospitality and events hub. To use it, open the template link below, then copy and paste into an email and fill in the blanks before sending.
