Stop the Delay of New Housing!

Keystone Ranch, a proposed housing project in Patterson, California, holds the promise of enhancing the City's livability. Located roughly 90 miles southeast of San Francisco, on a 95-acre site within the larger Zacharias and Baldwin Ranch Master Planning Area, the project includes up to 719 single- and multi-family housing units, 7.68 acres of park space, and bike and pedestrian pathways. These amenities are designed to improve the quality of life for Patterson's residents, providing them with a vibrant community and ample recreational opportunities.

Despite Keystone's best efforts for over a decade to move the project forward, the City of Patterson is determined to thwart the development. However, the Keystone team remains steadfast in bringing housing to the City of Patterson. The Keystone Ranch project, once approved, will bring significant benefits to the City, including new housing, infrastructure improvements, and ample open space. ‍

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Delay, Delay, Denied! Why is Patterson Derailing New Housing in the Face of a Housing Emergency?

Patterson’s own housing report says they need to build 3,716 new homes by 2031 to meet state requirements.

Failure to meet state housing requirements leads to serious penalties, including ineligibility or delay in receiving state funding, along with financial ramifications ultimately passed to the taxpayer.

Despite these real issues, Patterson has failed to submit a compliant housing plan to the State, and has stymied Keystone Ranch at every turn. On April 1, 2025, the Patterson City Council denied the Keystone Ranch development, blocking new homes, parks, and amenities from becoming available to the greater community. The City is acting in bad faith, evidenced by the:

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Failure to acknowledge that Senate Bill 330 applies to Keystone’s project, creating barriers to new housing in Patterson.

Violation of the Brown Act by failing to provide adequate public notice on required hearings and infringing on the public’s right to participate in the development process.

Violation of the Mitigation Fee Act when approving development impact fees based on deficient nexus studies.

Interference and attempted block of a LAFCO election and the County’s annexation process to move Keystone’s land into Patterson.

Refusal to accept Keystone’s tentative vesting map application, violating the Subdivision Map Act and the Housing Accountability Act.

Failure to adopt a state mandated Housing Element in the required time frame.

Demand that Keystone finance a nearly $20 million groundwater recharge basin to address a false water crisis, despite years of prior studies showing the project had sufficient water.

But don’t just take it from us: here’s what outside observers and accountability watchdogs are saying about the City of Patterson and their legal counsel, White Brenner LLP:

"The haphazard way in which the nexus studies were prepared, amended, amended again and amended a third time... was not designed to ensure transparency and public participation in government. In fact, it appears likely it ensured exactly the opposite." - Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge

Link to Court Ruling

"Here is a case of a city using bad faith and contradictory logic to block a housing project that it has already counted toward its state housing obligations....the City of Patterson (“City”) imposed a moratorium and effectively denied new housing, violating the HAA, the HCA, and the Legislature’s framework to ensure local governments encourage, rather than block, necessary housing."

Link to YIMBY Amicus Brief

"As a reminder, the City’s 6th cycle housing element was due December 31, 2023. As of today, the City has not completed the housing element process for the 6th cycle. The City’s 5th cycle housing element no longer satisfies statutory requirements. HCD encourages the City to expeditiously complete rezoning and adopt and submit the housing element to HCD to regain substantial compliance."

Link to State of California Department of Housing and Community Development

"The City of Patterson needs new legal representation.

Not only does the legal firm give bad advice, they make more money by going to court to address their bad advice.

Citizens, you are getting ripped off by these legal fees. Your current City Council needs to be asking why?" - Former Mayor Pat Maisetti

Link to Letter to the Editor

APR - JUNE 2022

Weekly meetings between Zacharias Group and City to negotiate impact fees, CFD & DA. Multiple setbacks orchestrated mainly by Ken Irvin have slowed progress and delayed planning board approval & project put to agenda for city council .

MAY 24, 2022

Zacharias Group & Patterson Unified School District Agrmt Finalized

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August 2017

After collectively failing a number of business ventures, Dan and Adam finally have their first break. Together they build Lumio with a team of 7 other legends.

Lumio, previously called Foenix, was a social media analytics company that helped brands like Audi, David Jones and Red Balloon source legitimate influencers for social media campaigns.

“We were essentially the Instagram police and called out fake influencers left, right and centre. It was fun and all, but there is only so many bikini chicks you can look at on Instagram before you start losing your mind.”

Dan, Co-founder and CEO of Lumio

April 2018

Lumio gets acquired by German company, Influencer DB. Yeww! 🎉

Read about the acquisition

“After this, we both took up golf on during the week and started eating fancy dinners at the local Country Club... Ha. This is not what happened at all. We suck at golf and love eating Guzman Y Gomez.”

Adam, Co-founder of Lumio

June 2018

Dan is shipped off to work with ze Germans as Head of Product at Influencer DB.

Adam decides to stay in Sydney and cut his teeth as a Product Designer with one of Sydney's leading design studios.

Whilst in Germany, Dan worked with with brands such as Daniel Wellington and BMW - Ja!

Adam worked with clients like Vodafone, TAFE NSW, Adobe and also won the 'Good Design Australia' award for his work on the Seatfrog website.

Read about the Good Design Award

November 2019

After spending time apart, Dan and Adam begin to plan their next moves and rekindle their business partnership.

The name "Relume" is born.

relume

verb

[ri-loom]
To relight or rekindle (a light, flame, etc.)

January 2020

Dan moves back to Sydney to join a Global startup incubator called Antler. He convinces Adam to join him.

learn more about antler here

April 2020

🚀 relume launches

For various reasons, Dan and Adam decide to turn down a $100,000 investment from Antler and start their own business venture, without taking outside investment.

To do this they would have to build a company that would be profitable in its first year. Not the next Uber of *insert clever idea*.

June 2020

After building 11 websites on Webflow in under 6 weeks as a way to test a number of business ideas, Dan and Adam decide to stick to what they know best and launch Relume - a company that designs and builds beautiful Webflow websites.

“Relume was an opportunity for us to build a profitable business, not a startup that bleeds cash, whilst doing what we love to do. It also allows us to learn about all types of businesses and the problems they deal with. These are all opportunities that we could potentially solve for in the future. For now, our goal is simple, we want to build a kickass business which means we really want our customers and the Webflow community to succeed too.”

Dan, Co-founder of Relume

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Superior Court Strikes Down Patterson’s Unlawful Fee Hikes in Ruling

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Keystone Ranch

Patterson residents have a right to know how much the City is paying in attorneys to delay this project.

It's been...

since we filed a Public Records Act request asking for the City’s legal spending details, along with other important documents. We're still waiting.

2026 UPDATE: To date, the City of Patterson has failed to disclose all records, fulfilling only some requests, and providing partial and heavily redacted information. We currently have five separate Public Records Act requests still outstanding with the City, with no complete response.

Stop the Delay of New Housing!

Delay, Delay, Denied! Why is Patterson Derailing New Housing in the Face of a Housing Emergency?

But don’t just take it from us: here’s what outside observers and accountability watchdogs are saying about the City of Patterson and their legal counsel, White Brenner LLP:

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