El Dorado County has settled on a new building style for a concrete tilt-up building was deemed superior to conventional wood frame or steel construction for a new animal shelter to serve western El Dorado County.

The Board of Supervisors this week directed the General Services Department to proceed with the design and bid processes in hopes of having the building's shell in place by fall.

The county has spent about three years working on land acquisition and design options for an animal shelter to replace facilities that had be to vacated in March to make way for expansion of Placerville's wastewater treatment plant.

Animal Control is renting shelter and office space on Placerville Drive until the new shelter is constructed on a 10-acre site southwest of Placerville near Pleasant Valley Road and Mother Lode Drive, an area known as the El Dorado "Y."