Yesterday a historical home at 5th and S streets came down. To be more precise, it was taken apart by a giant excavator and crushed into itself. The home has been vacant for the better part of 30 years as the owner never occupied the dilapidated building and the city forbade her from tearing it down. City officials and preservationists have spent weeks debating the fate of 506 S Street. Ultimately, the decision was in the hands of Ron O'Connor, the Operations Manager for the City of Sacramento Code Enforcement Department. Mr. O'Connor said that he had been in multiple meetings with Council member Rob Fong, with the City Manager and with preservation officials. O'Connor admitted that the m

From Michael Fitzegerald Between grading papers and dreaming of Mexico, the Admiral and I try to get plenty of exercise by walking, riding our bikes and heading to the Capital Athletic Club where the Admiral and I go almost every day for swimming and to work on the machines. (OK. I don't go on the machines at all, but I do try to get in a quarter-mile of thrashing through the water. And, no, I missed today, but...) In my walk this afternoon (to make up for skipping my swim), I ran across a house (506 S Street) a block away that was being torn down, a 100-plus year old casa that had been taken over by some local homeless people. For California, the demolition guys were pretty casual with

From Paul Trudeau Code Enforcement & Councilmember Fong's office both just called SPNA to let us know that the City will be demolishing the historic home at 506 S Street today. Another historic building lost.  Time to focus on putting more teeth into the City's minimum maintenance ordinance in order protect those that remain.  There are indications that Fong's office and maybe Code Enforcement are thinking in that direction too.