How’s business? What can be done to make it better? With those questions, more than two dozen business people and Sacramento County staffers are visiting businesses Friday in the Arden Arcade district for the annual Business Walk to find out what kind of assistance can be brought to help improve the business environment. It’s expected that more than 100 shops, offices and stores will be visited today along eight commercial corridors—including Watt Avenue, Fulton Avenue, Auburn Boulevard and ... hsilliman patatardenarcade comment-16163 2009-10-23T17:26:26Z 2009-10-23T17:26:26Z Interesting comments. As a member of the Arden Arcade Incorporation Committee, I can tell you that we plan to put cityhood for Arden Arcade on the ballot November 2010. We are currently in the LAFCo (Local Area Formation Commission) review process and we expect that be completed this spring. For more information, our website is www.ardenarcadecity.org. Last night Rancho Cordova David Sander along with Rancho Cordova Police Chief Meeks and Sacramento County Sheriff John McGinness spoke at an Arden Arcade Incorporation Committee sponsored forum about law enforcement. It was very helpful and encouraging because one of our key concerns are property values, code enforcement and blight as well as public safety. patatardenarcade 2009-10-23T17:26:26Z Reno comment-14422 2009-09-25T21:52:51Z 2009-09-25T21:52:51Z I always like it when I read about people trying to make a difference when times are tough. Good Work!!! Reno 2009-09-25T21:52:51Z Hal Silliman comment-14421 2009-09-25T21:52:44Z 2009-09-25T21:52:44Z As a resident of Arden Arcade myself, I find your comments to be positive. It has a great feeling. I can walk or drive to all of the services--including my doctor--very conveniently...and driving down Fulton Ave. is a pleasure now that those power poles are gone, thanks to the Fulton Avenue Association. It's a great close-in suburb! Hal Silliman 2009-09-25T21:52:44Z William Burg comment-14402 2009-09-25T21:03:27Z 2009-09-25T21:03:27Z I hope my statement wasn't taken as a put-down or anything! Arden-Arcade does have a distinct feel to it--I lived in that area in elementary school, and it is probably the neighborhood adjacent to Sacramento that I visit the most. Maybe it just feels like a suburb, which for a lot of Americans is as close to a small town as they may have experienced--block parties and backyard barbecues, hanging out at the mall or the 7-11, running into friends at the supermarket or a burger stand. Maybe what a lot of people think of as a "small-town feel" is actually a suburban feel. Arden-Arcade is one of the first postwar suburbs in the area, which means that it's just getting to be old enough to have buildings that look definably old-fashioned--not Midtown victorians or East Sac bungalows, but things like Googie diners, Modernist supermarket facades, a bit of Fifties roadside architecture, and early suburban ranch houses. New enough to be familiar but old enough to remind us of the past. William Burg 2009-09-25T21:03:27Z Kassandra Perlongo comment-14396 2009-09-25T19:44:35Z 2009-09-25T19:44:35Z Thanks William, I wasn't entirely sure about it. I just find Sacramento suburbs interesting. I have lived Downtown on P then on H Street, in Arden Arcade, Natomas, near the Fab 40s, and now in Elk Grove. I always just felt that Arden Arcade had a more distinct "town within a town" feel to it. Neighbors would have block parties and community events. Either way, it was my favourite move and I wish I lived there longer! Kassandra Perlongo 2009-09-25T19:44:35Z William Burg comment-14395 2009-09-25T19:39:12Z 2009-09-25T19:39:12Z They did not get enough signatures on petitions to get it on the ballot. I'm not sure how much small-town feel Arden/Arcade has, as it was never a small town--it was sheep farms until the late 1940s and became suburbs pretty much immediately after that. William Burg 2009-09-25T19:39:12Z Kassandra Perlongo comment-14394 2009-09-25T19:16:34Z 2009-09-25T19:16:34Z This is a fantastic idea, and a good way to really get Sacramento back in touch with the community. Arden Arcade is one of my favourite areas in Sacramento, and I would love to see it expand more, but still retain its small town feel. If I remember correctly, didn't Arden Arcade put a ballot out to become its own city? Did that ballot ever pass? Kassandra Perlongo 2009-09-25T19:16:34Z