The B-Line has committed to extend public transportation services to the site. Local officials have been preparing for the influx by negotiating with FEMA to help increase services.Ĭaltrans installed a traffic light signal at the West Liberty intersection with Highway 99. “We want to be that town that is welcoming,” Johnson said. Other development projects could be fast-tracked following state legislation authored by Rep. Three new subdivisions in the city under construction now will provide 50 to 75 new homes in the next six months or so, said Johnson. He’s hoping that enough new homes will be built in city that it will be able to absorb many of the Camp Fire survivors living at the FEMA site by the time it closes down. “There’s going to be more consuming going on, at the grocery stores, gas stations, car lots, convenience stores … We’re kind of the envy of Butte County right now.” “It’s going to benefit the people who were in Paradise that need a place to stay and it’s going to benefit Gridley,” said Johnson. Around 900 to 1,200 people are expected to eventually live at the site, according to preliminary estimates from the city. FEMA’s lease with the city, which allows for extensions, goes until July 1, 2021.īruce Johnson, the mayor of Gridley, said the temporary housing community is a “once-in-a-lifetime” development. The temporary housing community is slated to exist until May of 2020, unless the state requests more help. They will have to show to a case manager that they are looking for permanent housing every month to remain eligible for the temporary housing. Many of the families who are in temporary FEMA housing elsewhere have also expressed an interest in moving back to their jobs, schools and community in Butte County.Ĭamp Fire survivors will be moved in to the Gridley community in three phases, said Peacock. They will house the 213 households on the wait list and the 33 households currently in hotels in FEMA’s transitional sheltering assistance program. The Gridley site and another upcoming site in Chico will add 482 mobile homes. The federal agency is currently funding temporary trailers or mobile homes scattered across Northern California for 422 households displaced by the Camp Fire, according to Peacock. Gridley is also one of the main FEMA temporary housing options relatively close to the areas where people lost their homes. “The general purpose is assisting with the transition while they recover from the Camp Fire,” said Michael Peacock, a FEMA spokesperson. That makes it the largest and most costly FEMA housing site in California. The 72-acre Gridley Industrial Park has been revamped for 400 newly-built manufactured housing units, or mobile homes. It’s the next phase of a high-stakes project for both the city of Gridley, where the newcomers could eventually grow the population up to 18 percent, and FEMA. GRIDLEY - Around 110 households displaced by the Camp Fire will be moving in to temporary Federal Emergency Management Agency housing in Gridley starting Thursday. Largest FEMA temporary housing group site is nearly ready in Gridley – Chico Enterprise-Record Close Menu
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