The Springs Redevelopment Advisory Committee will at its Dec. 2 meeting vote on sending a plea to Westamerica Bank to keep its Fiesta Shopping Center location open indefinitely.
The bank, which has guaranteed maintaining the branch only through February, has cut weekday hours and has closed on Saturdays.
The letter states “the reduced hours of operation do not allow residents and businesses convenient access to the branch’s services.” As the only bank located in the Springs Redevelopment Project Area, it continues, “we would like to work in partnership with you towards economic revitalization of our community. Closure of this branch would hamper our efforts to reduce economic blight and would be contrary to the intent of redevelopment law and to the Community Redevelopment Act.”
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Sonoma Valley Grange Hall, 18627 Sonoma Highway.
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