Business View Magazine | November 2019

258 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 town on First Street (also a State highway) and along the I-80 corridor, as mixed-use. So far, they have been successful in bringing in a major truck sales and service company, TEC Equipment, to the northern portion of the city, as well as Scannell Development, which built a GE Warehouse in the same area. Along with great tax revenue, those businesses are also providing a new employment base. Since they came into town, a lot of spinoff of other industrial counterparts have followed suit. Tasini admits, “One of the constraints we have in that northeast quadrant is we don’t have infrastructure to those areas, so there have to be interim ways to get water and sewer and roads through there to sustain the developments. Both Scannell and Tec have construction water tanks and retention basins. But we do anticipate, through our planning process, to have connections for the roadways. One of the more complicated things we do here is put together agreements to support these developments, so when they come in they’re not going to be responsible for laying down the water lines, but they will have to pay into a future fund to, ultimately, do that when adjacent properties are developed. So we have a continuum; and the same with some of the roadways. They have to do a few improvements, but the ultimate improvement is done through a development agreement, which has a funding mechanism where we can create the infrastructure when we have a cohesive number of people there.” The General Plan is also considering sustainability issues and ways to improve connections with pedestrians and mass transit – including a new train station. The transportation piece of the Plan is taking a broad look at pedestrians, biking, vehicular, as well as transit. The landscape is pretty flat in Dixon and biking would be a natural for people to get to and from Davis, so the city could be a hub for the university. “I think the connection between the university and us is something I’m going to work on,” says Tasini; “trying to help market us as a place that could have a residential component for students and faculty and administrators, and maybe a biomed facility, as well. That is untapped potential that