October 10, 2025
City of Sacramento
Planning and Design Commission
915 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: Project Number P25-008 (Former Rite Aid Building at Alhambra Blvd and Granada Way):
Dear City of Sacramento, Planning and Design Commissioners:
East Sacramento Preservation is a neighborhood association that is writing in opposition of the proposed development of Project number P25-008 (Alhambra Blvd and Granada Way, Sacramento).
The neighborhood association recommends that the Planning and Desing Commission do not approve this storage project for the following reasons:
- The Alhambra Corridor deserves the same care and attention that the City of Sacramento is giving to other high transit corridors, such as Stockton Boulevard and Broadway corridors.
- The proposed storage project is inconsistent with the Alhambra’s Special Planning District.
- The proposed project requires an amendment to the City’s General Plan.
- The proposed project is inconsistent with the long-range planning objectives of the City of Sacramento.
- The proposed monolithic structure would increase traffic hazards for pedestrians, cyclists, and neighbors, who live and walk to support existing local businesses, as the building would have entry on L Street and exit onto Granada Way.
- If this project is approved, it would set a precedent for future building sites which could change the entire aesthetic of Alhambra Blvd.
- The proposed project is mostly used for self-storage; does not provide housing units to serve the community, as there are 3 large existing public storage facilities in East Sacramento.
Please do not approve the proposed Project Number P25-008 for the reasons listed above, and because the proposed development fails the neighborhood community in serving desperately needed housing.
Thank you in advance for your support and consideration.
Martin Palomar
Martin Palomar,
President
East Sacramento Preservation, Inc.
PO Box 191763, Sacramento, CA 95819
(916) 202-8607
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