Some people say a neighborhood is better defined by the residents who live, work and play there than by physical boundaries, lines on a map or the number of inhabitants. Just ask the people who live in Oak Park – or Elmhurst, or Med Center or Tahoe Park. Glenn Corngold, an Elmhurst resident who spoke at the Aug. 23 City Council meeting, told council members, “Med Center’s dirt is in our yard. It’s our neighborhood.” As the once-a-decade redistricting process for Sacramento comes to a close, there has been a lot of emotion, protest – and, yes, drama – focused on the redrawing of district lines that would shift the UC Davis Medical Center from District 5, where it has been since it was bu

Last night, the Sacramento City Council spent nearly two and a half hours taking public comments regarding the proposed council district map that it approved last week. More than 50 residents of at least four city districts rose to voice their concerns, yet not one of them spoke in favor of the proposed baseline map, ironically but officially referred to as "Neighborhoods Together 2.0". Most public comments came from two groups, referred to as "communities of interest" in the redistricting process. Oak Park advocates objected to the proposal to draw their neighborhood in a separate district from Sacramento Charter High School, the UC Davis Medical Center campus, and the northeast corner o

The number of potential redistricting maps in the running for City Council consideration dwindles to five as the city of Sacramento gets closer to finalizing a new redistricting plan. Maria MacGunigal, staff member for the Citizens Advisory Committee on Redistricting, said Tuesday that when the committee met on Monday, each member brought a list of “top five” and “bottom five” lists for discussion. At the conclusion of the meeting, committee members had decided on the “top four contenders,” MacGunigal said, plus one more map that is still under consideration, but may be eliminated at the next advisory committee meeting. City Council members will be on summer recess for two weeks startin

The Truck 10 crew of Sacramento City Fire in South Sacramento donated and installed an American flag at Tahoe Park Saturday morning. The flag was affixed to a long-forgotten pole in the northwest corner of the park which had been recently rehabilitated by the Tahoe Park Neighborhood Association. The pole, according to an old plaque at its base, was donated by Pacific Bell in 1989 and had been previously obstructed from view by neglected shrubbery. In an earlier TPNA park clean-up event, the offending foliage was removed, and the association decided to take steps to bring the pole back to its former glory. One of the main hindering obstacles preventing the use of the flagpole was reaching

Local residents seeking information about forming their own neighborhood volunteer groups convened at the Clunie Clubhouse at McKinley Park this past Saturday Morning. The informational event, held by coordinators from the Land Park Volunteer Corps, drew over 30 individuals ranging from concerned citizens, past and present city employees, and representatives of various community organizations. Craig Powell, lead coordinator for LPVC, passed out an detailed guide outlining the “nuts and bolts” involved in forming a successful city park volunteer group. Staff from the cities park department summarized the resources available to groups interested in volunteering, and how to coordinate with v

In front of a tiny house, southeast of Highway 50 and 59th Street, we spotted the rare “Yard Giraffe” in it’s natural form: imitating a solid iron statue. Rumor has it that this Yard Giraffe’s name is Daisy and that she’s originally from Mexico. She’s lived in the northern section of Tahoe Park for at least the past 7 years. It is not uncommon to see Daisy decorated on some holidays. On Christmas she’s known to wear colorful lights and once even dressed up as a ghost for Halloween. If you know something you’d like to see on “Found In Sac”, send an email to me at sacramentoisaac@gmail.com  

Nearly 50 volunteers descended on Tahoe Park this past Saturday morning for the first “Clean-Up Day” of the year. The stormy weather and gray clouds were no deterrent to the men, women, and children who participated in the Tahoe Park Neighborhood Association’s event. Friends and family members broke up into about a dozen teams and were given a wide berth to attend to whatever section of the park they wanted. Some teams patched the worn-out sections in the jogging path. Other teams weeded the tree trunks and spread fresh mulch around their bases. Even more teams cut suckers and low lying branches on the pine trees. Eleven year resident Ray Duke found the event to be well organized and als

Spring is in the air and volunteers in the Tahoe Park neighborhood are eagerly preparing for their first "Park Clean-Up Day" of the year. After organizing two successful clean-up events in the area last fall, event organizers hope to attract a large enough group of volunteers this Saturday to have yet another triumphant event at their local park. Late last year, the Tahoe Park Neighborhood Association was awarded a $1000 dollar grant by "Gift-To-Share, Inc." with the purpose of purchasing tools and equipment for clean-up events. Recently, board members of TPNA obtained these tools and will be making them available for the first time during this volunteer effort. Tahoe Park is used by hun

New bike lanes could be added to 65th Street if the city receives enough cash from the state. The City Council is expected to approve the application for funding to install bicycle lanes on 65th Street between Fourth Avenue and Folsom Boulevard. The issue will be reviewed at Tuesday night’s council meeting. The city’s transportation department estimates the new bike lanes will cost $337,000 to install. California would pay most of the project’s costs if it selects the city’s application for the state’s Bicycle Transportation Account grant program. The city would pay 10 percent of the cost from revenues from Measure A, a local half-cent sales tax applied to street projects, according to E

The cool January morning was no deterrent to several dozen volunteers who came out for a tree planting event at Tahoe Park Sunday. Representatives from several local civic organizations, along with friends and neighbors from the community, came out to plant several Northern Red Oak, Valley Oak and Willow Oak trees. Jacobe Caditz from the Sacramento Tree Foundation gave a crash course in Tree Planting 101 before teams were divided and sent off to prearranged locations throughout the park. “We have a campaign going on right now where we want to plant 5 million more trees in Sacramento in the next 25 years,” Caditz said. “Today’s event is just another of many that’s going to help us reach o