Right on.

Tuesday night's vote for the more balanced proposal for K Street redevelopment was very good news, and not just for those of us who supported the winning team. Our city moved decisively forward tonight, and congratulations are due to all who participated in the process, from city staff to city council, from members of the community who spoke at Tuesday's meeting to those who have participated in the many Conversations on the subject on The Sacramento Press.

The Conversations here about the K Street process have been wonderfully civil, constructive, and deeply informative. The community cared about this issue, and engaged with each other on it. There was a sense that, no matter which development team you backed, the goal was mutual: To fix Sactown's problem promenade.

The synergy of community, media and government worked today in a way I don't think I've ever seen here. Watching it has been encouraging.

And now, that synergistic engagement must continue for this project to work. People must be held accountable, from the developers and contractors to the city's many inspectors and bureaucrats. Let's do this well. This project must be completed the way it was proposed - or even better. Bay Miry, Cyrus Youssefi, Joe Zeiden and David Taylor have won, but now the onus is on them to deliver. They seem likely to do so, which is why they were chosen. But as they know better than we, they have a lot of work ahead. Expectations are rising. So is the need for success.

Let's watch them do this together, through The Sacramento Press. Let's continue to tell this story in all its details together, each of us contributing what he or she has learned. And let's show those who say we must depend solely on professional journalists that the hardworking community contributors and pro journalists who participate here can tell this story not just as well as the pros, but better. Together.

I believe that we already have. Many contributors to The Sacramento Press played a crucial part in affecting this vote. The readers and conversationalists on SacPress had the most complete, most in-depth coverage of more aspects of this debate than any other news source in town. And Tuesday night, it mattered.

I'd like to give special appreciation to SP staff writer Suzanne Hurt for her finely-detailed stories on the business and development aspects and to her colleague Kathleen Haley for the scrutiny she gives city hall and the political process every day.

And then there is community contributor William Burg. Special thanks to this trained historian with a love of Sacramento, who quickly grasped the spirit and possibility of what Sacramento Press can be, and used it particularly well to help lead the conversation on this complex topic.

And he was not alone. It was a group effort.

As we build our community with rebar and stucco and steel and glass and bricks, we are giving ourselves more ways to enjoy the great life that is singularly available in urban Sacramento. But we are also building a community online, at The Sacramento Press, in which we can talk to each other, share information, disagree occasionally, and move forward toward greater understanding - in mutual respect.

Building a community online, as well as on the streets, we reinforce both. Onward!