California Conservation Corps, Willits Center

California Conservation Corps, Willits Center

The California Conservation Corps (CCC) Willits Center (Proposed Project or Center) involves development of a new CCC operations center at 440 East Hill Road in the Town of Willits to accommodate relocation of existing operations at the CCC Ukiah Center. The proposed 27.7-acre Willits Center site is located north of East Hill Road, bounded by U.S. Highway 101 bypass on the east and the former Northwestern Pacific Railroad corridor on the west in the town of Willits, Mendocino County. The Project consists of a new CCC residential center that includes a total of approximately 64,000 square feet (sf) of new building construction. The Center will include 12 buildings consisting of an administration building, seven dormitories, an education building, a recreation building, a multi-purpose building with kitchen and dining room, a warehouse with work area and a hazardous materials storage room. The site will include asphalt paved surfaces for driveways and parking and concrete paving for service and staging areas and walkways. The Project also includes a paved emergency crew and vehicle staging area and solar photovoltaic array. The facility would be designed based on the prototype and CCC's residential needs to house 120 permanent Corpsmembers. The center is intended to be designed to Zero Net Energy (ZNE) per the Governor's Executive Order (EO) B-18-12 and achieve at minimum a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification. Once completed, existing Ukiah Center CCC housing and training functions would be relocated to the Willits facility.

Willits

Mendocino