On December 3, 2024, ECOS submitted a letter regarding a Community Benefits Agreement Ordinance for the City of Sacramento.
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ECOS Comments on 2025 SACOG Blueprint, 11/11/2024
On November 11, 2024, ECOS submitted a letter to the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) regarding a suggested policy regarding the performance of projects included in the 2025 SACOG Blueprint.
Action Alert: Sutter’s Land Park Master Plan Community Meeting, 12/12/2024
Thursday, December 12, 2024 — 6-8 PM
Clunie Clubhouse at McKinley Park (Alhambra Blvd at F Street)
Sacramento, California
The City of Sacramento is updating its Master Plan for Sutter’s Landing Park, which sits adjacent to the American River Parkway.
Sutter’s Landing Park provides tremendous opportunities to connect Sacramento area residents with nature and protect vital habitat for imperiled wildlife species including Swainson’s hawks, Peregrine falcons, Red-tailed hawks, Meadowlarks, Northern Harriers, and many others.
The Master Plan will help determine the fate of nearly 200 acres of existing wildlife areas that are an important part of the upland habitat along the American River and improvements to other portions of the park that currently provide active recreation.
“The Mound” portion of the Park (pictured in the foreground) is the largest habitat area along the southern portion of the American River within the City of Sacramento and could be a Nature Preserve.
The recently acquired “West Sutter’s Landing Park” properties (just west of Blue Diamond) could also be a Nature Preserve and restored.
The Park could also include additional compatible trails to further connect residents to nature and river-themed play areas and environmental education programs for kids.
Please attend the December 12th meeting and speak out for protecting nature at Sutter’s Landing.
You can also email written comments to DRepan[at]cityofsacramento[dot]org.
For more information, email: cibrownci[at]icloud[dot]com.
ACTION ALERT: Sacramento Investment Without Displacement
WHAT: Attend the Upcoming City Council Special Meeting
WHEN: Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 2:00pm
WHERE: City Hall, 915 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
WHY: The Sacramento Investment Without Displacement coalition has spent the last four years working with the City of Sacramento to establish a Community Benefits Agreement Ordinance for Council consideration. In the City’s updated CBAO (view the posting here on the City’s CBAO website) most of SIWD’s demands to ensure that community voice is at the table have continued NOT to be met nor included in the CBAO drafts. We are asking our SIWD partners, our trusted messengers, serving our most vulnerable, to REJECT THE CURRENT VERSION of the CBAO that will be up for consideration next week. Your leadership and support are critical to establishing a true CBAO that will include community voices at the decision-making table and ensure that benefits come back to the community in future developments.
The council meeting will begin at 2:00. All public comment requests will be accepted before the staff presentation is complete.
To make a public comment at the meeting:
- Complete a speaker slip located in the back of the room (near the large glass windows)
- This will be the only agenda item for that day.
- Complete the form and hand it to the clerks at the front of the room
To submit an e-comment: - Go to https://sacramento.granicusideas.com/meetings/5231-2-00-pm-city-council-special-meeting/agenda_items
- Choose your position and share your thoughts
- Click on ‘Submit Comment’ to complete
If you have additional questions about the presentation, feel free to send them directly to info[dot]saciwd[at]gmail[dot]com.
In Community,
Sacramento Investment Without Displacement Members
ECOS LETTER re Sacramento County Climate Action Plan, 11/6/2024
On Nov 6, 2024, ECOS submitted to the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors a comment letter on the County of Sacramento Climate Action Plan, Final Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (SEIR).
The Environmental Council of Sacramento (ECOS) appreciates that County staff have developed a better Climate Action Plan than its 2022 version. However, we still have major concerns that must be addressed before we can support it.
ECOS Opposes new Crocker Village Residential Development Proposal
The Environmental Council of Sacramento (ECOS) opposes the request by Crocker Village Residential Development to construct 61 housing units on ±4.86 vacant acres within the R-4A-PUD and SC-PUD zones and Curtis Park Village Planned Unit Development (PUD), located at 2325 10th Avenue.
This acreage has a Multi-Family Housing designation, which is appropriate considering its proximity to Sacramento Regional Transit’s light rail station at City College. SACOG supported funding for the bike/pedestrian bridge from this development to the light rail station based on the understanding that this would be a transit-oriented development.
ECOS is opposed to a PUD Schematic Plan Amendment to develop single-unit dwellings instead. We have two crises that must be addressed: our severe shortage of affordable housing, and climate change. In Sacramento, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is from cars. Multi-Family Housing near a light-rail station addresses both these crises, and therefore this designation must be preserved.
