FAQ

The May 27, 2026 County referral describes Use Permit UP-22;2-3 as 1,832 grave sites in seven blocks, 64 permanent parking spaces plus driveway parking for up to 100 cars, permanent restrooms, and about 60 funerals per month with up to 50 attendees per event.

No. Those figures describe older versions of the project. They remain relevant to the history of the application but should not be presented as the current County project description.

The applicant’s own current project narrative says the cemetery is intended to serve the Muslim community in Amador County, Sacramento County, Placer County, and surrounding areas. The regional draw is therefore part of the applicant’s stated project objective.

The current application states about 60 funeral events per month and 50 attendees per event, but gives an average increase of 20 vehicles per day without a dedicated traffic methodology in the supplied packet. Peak funeral/procession conditions and the additional driveway-parking concept also warrant explanation.

The June 22, 2023 deficiency notice required a qualified soils/hydrology/hydrogeology study addressing cemetery suitability and protection of ground and surface water, including percolation, setbacks, monitoring wells, flood areas, wet-weather testing, and water-table depths.

The records supplied for this collection show the project advancing through TAC and CEQA review in 2026. This collection does not treat the project as finally approved unless and until a final County decision record is published.

No. Public comments are published as submitted viewpoints. When a comment uses obsolete project figures or makes an allegation not independently established by an official or technical record, the archive says so.