As a resident of Tracy Hills, the catastrophic fire at the Medline warehouse on Hansen Road was a terrifying wake-up call. Watching a massive, multi-alarm inferno blanket our sky in toxic industrial smoke made a hypothetical danger instantly real: putting heavy logistics infrastructure directly in the backyards of families is an extreme, unmitigated physical hazard.

Yet, the City of Tracy is actively moving forward with an even more dangerous proposal: the Tracy Hills Commerce Center.

This is a massive 97-acre, 7-building industrial megasite totaling approximately 1.7 million square feet. Pinned directly in the narrow corridor between Tracy Hills and Ellis, this high-density industrial complex will literally share its property boundary walls on both sides with residential backyards, local neighborhood schools, and parks.

If a fire of today’s magnitude happens at the Tracy Hills Commerce Center, thousands of families will have zero buffer zone. The toxic smoke, chemical hazards, and emergency evacuation bottlenecks will be right outside our back doors.

Worse, this reckless zoning is directly threatening our financial survival. Tracy homeowners are already facing an agonizing crisis trying to secure or afford homeowners insurance in California. By building a massive, fire-prone industrial complex sharing a wall with 4,000 homes, our local government is turning our master-planned communities into uninsurable risk zones. No major insurance carrier will underwrite a home bordering a 1.7 million-square-foot industrial hazard, driving down our property values and threatening everything we've invested in our homes.

In 2025, hundreds of local residents formally organized, attended city council meetings, and opposed this development. Despite hours of critical testimony warning of the danger to the thousands of homes surrounding the site on all sides, Mayor Dan Arriola and City Council members Dottie Nygard and Steve Abercrombie voted 3–2 to approve the project's permits.

We, the residents of Tracy, demand that the Tracy City Council immediately:

• Issue an Emergency Freeze: Place an immediate hold on all remaining grading, building, and structural permits for the Tracy Hills Commerce Center.
• Conduct a Mandatory Post-Incident Safety Review: Order a multi-agency public safety and fire-risk assessment based on the real-world data from the Hansen Road warehouse destruction.
• Establish Real Protections: Mandate significant geographic buffer zones between heavy industrial zones and dense residential neighborhoods to protect our lungs, our children, and our property values.
  Our community tried to prevent this hazard at the council chambers. Now that the worst-case scenario has played out on Hansen Road, we must draw a hard line.

Sign this petition to demand that Tracy leadership protects our families and our homes before they build a massive industrial hazard right against our property lines!