City of American Canyon On the Horizon

Incorporated in 1992, the City of American Canyon is already the 2nd largest City in Napa County. In April 2008, Fortune Small Business Magazine listed American Canyon 11th in the Nation for the “Best Places to Live and Launch a Business”. The City offices have recently relocated to their new home on Broadway.

After 18 months of negotiations the City and the County of Napa decided on a new Urban Limit Line for American Canyon. Now that we have defined boundaries, we are able to create a new vision for our community; we are finally able to look ahead.

It’s been a long range goal for American Canyon to have a Town Center, a distinct area that would represent a true sense of community. Thanks to a dedicated group of citizens and McGrath Properties, our dreams are about to become a reality. The project envisions a vibrant mixed use community that will include a mixture of various types of densities of residential development, along with civic, commercial and retail as well as visitor-serving and hospitality uses.

American Canyon, high school students will no longer have to go outside of their own community to attend high school. As of 2010, that will change. The Napa Valley School District hired the architectural firm of Quattrocchi and Kwok to create a state of the art high school. The ground was broken for the American Canyon High School earlier this year. The school will be organized around the concept of small learning communities to ensure that students have a sense of belonging and are known by teachers and administrators who are capable of offering personalized academic and emotional support. This high school will also be a satellite for Napa College, house a mini theater with full media equipment for presentations, swimming pool, tennis courts, ball fields, locker rooms, etc.

As of late March 2009, American Canyon will have its first full service car wash. In light of the current water crisis in California today, “The Big Easy” will be the perfect complement to our evolving city. The owner of the car wash has taken a “green” approach and is using filtered and recycled water for washing your car and for landscaping, special earth friendly cleaning solutions and solar energy all in the effort of becoming more environmentally sustainable. He is quoted as saying that using a professional car wash uses 40 to 60% less water than doing the job yourself.

According to the American Canyon Planning Department we have two more hotels, Chardonnay Inn Resort and Hampton Inn & Suites, currently in plan check. A Walgreens Commercial Center, to be placed on the opposite side of the street of our Safeway strip center, will be breaking ground very soon.