Living outside of Manteca’s city limits means you might actually have a bigger personal stake in what the City Council ultimately adopts as policy goals in the next general plan designed to serve as a blueprint for municipal growth.Just ask residents in rural South Manteca that live along Peach Avenue, Fig Avenue, Tinnin Road, and Oleander Avenue among other country roads.Since before 2011, the future of their homes and farms have rested to a great deal with city efforts to execute the current general plan adopted in 2000. That’s because they are part of an adopted sphere of influence — modified in concert with the general plan — that identifies areas where the city ultimately could grow. Once spheres are put in place, it sets in motion long range goals such as ultimate traffic circulation plans adopted as part of the general plan document.The dagger pointed at rural South Manteca is the alignment of Raymus Expressway.Their battle — plus the city gearing up for an adoption process for an updated general plan to go in place by 2020 — should be a wake-up call for rural residents north of Manteca to French Camp Road as well as to the east along Austin Road and beyond.Manteca plan forfuture growthencroaches onDelicato wineryThat’s because the traffic circulation plan in place calls for no less than seven major road extensions that would substantially change the rural character along Castle Road, Prescott Road, and North Union Road as well as encroach on one of the nation’s largest wineries and one of Manteca’s largest private sector employers — Delicato Vineyards.