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East Sacramento Preservation Meets With Council Member Cohn to Discuss McKinley Village Sacramento
Below is ESP’s thank you letter to Council Member Cohn for today’s meeting. The board and our officers sat down with Steve Cohn to discuss McKinley Village.
Dear Council Member Cohn:
Thank you for meeting today with the officers and the board of East Sacramento Preservation on the topic of McKinley Village. We appreciate your time and attention to your constituents.
Here again are our discussion points.
1. We are opposed to the project as proposed. We have clearly explained our position in our opposition paper. Today we stressed the moral negligence of exposing future McKinley Village residents to the various pollutants they will face living next to the freeway, railroad, city landfill, and noise in the depressed bowl shape of this project site. Air pollution, in particular, will be a severe threat to the health of the adults and their children.
2. We look to you to represent your constituents and protect East Sacramento from poorly planned, inadequately connected, health endangering development. We ask you to vote no on the proposed project when it comes before the City Council.
3. IF the City ignores the serious health consequences this project creates, decides to accept the liability of this project and the development moves forward, ESP will support the traffic plan of the project only if two-way vehicular access is provided at Alhambra Boulevard.
4. We are pleased that you and your office will consider polling the residents north of H Street in East Sacramento. We urge you to poll the north of H Street community using robocall, or some other expeditious method by the end of February. This is such an important issue and it’s very important that you hear your constituents’ opinions on this project.
We appreciate your 19 years of service to the City of Sacramento. We hope you will promote the health of our neighborhoods by continuing to support this jewel of the city–East Sacramento.
Thank you,
Ellen Cochrane
President
East Sacramento Preservation, Inc.
East Sacramento Neighbors Need YOUR Help on McKinley Village!!!!
East Sacramento Neighbors Launch PAPER No As Proposed on McKinley Village Petition!
Come all East Sacramentans to help with the paper petition!
East Sacramento Preservation Meeting—Tuesday Night, November 12th at the Clunie Clubhouse East Sacramento Room, 7-8.
ESP will help the community organize the distribution. Come to help, give input or sign!
The community needs YOUR help to ask the city to listen to our no as proposed position.
The paper petition is a critical part of our effort. Many neighbors do not use email regularly, or don’t feel comfortable with an online petition. We need to reach out to all.
Please come help the community.
Please sign the e-petition and share it with neighbors and friends. And please, come Tuesday night to make sure we organize to contact all of our neighbors.
If you have trouble viewing or submitting this form, you can fill it out online:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1h1bledzfyGYZdGsJ5Ijq51pSQVqgaLx4IzU9YK4HVBk/viewformPetition to Oppose McKinley Village
As residents of East Sacramento and Midtown Sacramento neighborhoods, we are united in voicing our opposition to the proposed McKinley Village development. Following extensive conversations with the developers, neighborhood organizations, and in speaking with our neighbors we are convinced that this project does not fit within the character of existing neighborhoods and threatens to impact traffic, cause congestion and threaten safe pedestrian and bicycle access to Theodore Judah Elementary School. As proposed, this is a private, isolated community project that would negatively impact adjacent neighborhoods, schools, roads and residents.We, the undersigned, petition the Sacramento City Council to review and oppose the current proposal for McKinley Village for the following reasons:• As currently proposed, the McKinley Village project threatens to alter fundamentally the quality of life and character of the neighborhoods of East Sacramento.• The proposed McKinley Village possesses all the negative aspects of a tract home and pop-up development and lacks the qualities of a city community such as immediate access to urban amenities.• The proposed McKinley Village will exist as an isolated car-based community that lacks urban-style access to public transportation, shopping and entertainment.• The only community connection will be increased car traffic on existing neighborhood roadways.• The proposed McKinley Village location would expose future residents to poor air quality, noise pollution and potential flood risk.• The proposed McKinley Village is not infill. It is an expansion of East Sacramento and not an East Sacramento style neighborhood.• The proposed construction of 328 new homes will result in additional burdens on neighborhood schools, particularly Theodore Judah Elementary School and Sutter Middle School and may alter the current school boundaries.• Well thought out infill projects should fit seamlessly into existing communities and result in a better and more dynamic city, such as the Stonebridge’s Sutter Park neighborhood. Access points at 28th Street, Alhambra Blvd and Lanatt Street would provide for a more seamless community.Thank you for your consideration of these concerns. We look forward to further dialogue regarding the project proposal.First Name *Last Name *Street Address *Email Address
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