Which is exactly what the business owner provides if he wants the extra business. Or more often than not, the business, period. That Safeway in Midtown would be gone, out of there, if it did not have parking. As Mark said, "And we can thank (or curse) former councilman Jimmie Yee's task force and the city council for putting the kibosh on a central Midtown public parking garage some years ago."

First, If it is so great, why does it require subsidy? Second, good luck with the NIMBYs of Midtown, who won't even let people build 3 story homes on vacant lots, let alone high-rises. This has been covered at length in the Sacramento Press before; do pay attention. Third, "halting new suburban housing development within the city limits?" Just *try* that with the Natomas developers, who are just about the only source of new housing, and commercial revenue, for Sac City proper as it is. Otherwise, the rest of the county which surrounds Sac City proper, and has already surrounded most of it with development, will simply take advantage of Sac City proper shooting itself in the North Natomas foot. Fourth, it doesn't occur to you that Vancouver has completely different demographics, does it? There are no Oak Parks or Del Paso Heightses in Vancouver. Fifth, again, Canadian provincial governance is different from U.S. City/County governance. I know you have wet dreams of creating New Urbanist Trolleycar Man, but it won't happen. It hasn't even happened for most parts of Greater Metro Vancouver.

Let the smug Midtownies discover that without enough visitor parking, or without numerous high-rise apartment complexes packed into the area, there won't be enough customers to support their boutiques and restaurants. At present there aren't enough customers living within walking (mincing?) distance of said shops.

Like hell they didn't, you leftist dupes. The People's Temple was headquartered in San Francisco, and Jones and his followers walked precincts for your "progressive" pals.

Sorry, but no. Pedophilia is not OK just because you happen to like gay sex. Beyond the pedophilia, Harvey Milk was a sleazy and nasty man, and had he not been killed by the tightly wound sore loser Dan White, who actually shot Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone because of political backstabbing, not Milk's homosexuality, Milk would have gone out of office in scandal, above all for his deep involvement with the People's Temple criminal cult. Before the congregants of the Peoples Temple drank Jim Jones’s deadly Kool-Aid, Harvey Milk and much of San Francisco’s ruling class had already figuratively imbibed it. Milk occasionally spoke at Jones’s San Francisco–based headquarters, promoted Jones through his newspaper columns, and defended the Peoples Temple from its growing legion of critics. Jones provided conscripted “volunteers” for Milk’s campaigns to distribute leaflets by the tens of thousands. Milk returned the favor by abusing his position of public trust on behalf of Jones’s criminal endeavors. “Rev. Jones is widely known in the minority communities here and elsewhere as a man of the highest character, who has undertaken constructive remedies for social problems which have been amazing in their scope and effectiveness,” Supervisor Milk wrote President Jimmy Carter seven months before the Jonestown carnage. The purpose of Milk’s letter was to aid and abet his powerful supporter’s abduction of a six-year-old boy. Milk’s missive to the president prophetically continued: “Not only is the life of a child at stake, who currently has loving and protective parents in the Rev. and Mrs. Jones, but our official relations with Guyana could stand to be jeopardized, to the potentially great embarrassment of our State Department.” John Stoen, the boy whose actual parents Milk libeled to the president as purveyors of “bold-faced lies” and blackmail attempts, perished at Jonestown. This, the only remarkable episode in Milk’s brief tenure on the San Francisco board of supervisors, is swept under the rug by his hagiographers. Reports of abuse of Temple members, and stalking of those with the sense to leave the Temple, were reported years before Jonestown. But Jones and his followers walked precincts and voted en masse for Harvey Milk, so he looked the other way at the abuses. Sorry if the truth hurts. There are better role models to give kids, to say the least. In an age when kids don't even have the basics down, to push this sort of "education" on minors in K-12 is yet another example of exactly what is wrong with California.

Williams, however, appears to poop less often on the monument.

If the development owner wanted to "avoid toxic cleanup" he wouldn't be ripping out the toxic trees. Can someone beat on naga, please?

What are you talking about? I know of no other major city, or unincorporated urban area for that matter, of any size in Multnomah County, Oregon (735,334 as of 2010), besides Portland (583,776). Do you? Not so for Sacramento County (1,418,788) of which fewer than one-third live in Sac City proper (470,956). The facts remain: almost always, for a US city to have the clout for a stadium like goodie, it must dominate its own county, and ideally the counties around it. As for San Jose, had it not thrown its boundaries out to annex all the growth, it would have been a hemmed in little old city in an Orange County North, without even the Disneyland or Knott's Berry Farm that gives Anaheim the entertainment clout it has to support a stadium. In such a hypothetical situation, San Jose would be a nothing. In fact, it would be politically even more pathetic than Sacramento City proper is within Sacramento County. Vancouver? Is it hemmed in by more thriving cities? Really? To say nothing of the apples-and-oranges comparison of US City/County governance with Canadian provinical governnance.

His Uber-Liberal (political) stances are anti (economic) growth, as opposed to being uber liberal about (economic) growth. Yah, I'm quibbling....

In an age when kids don't even have the basics down, to push this sort of "education" on minors in K-12 is yet another example of exactly what is wrong with California.

So Sacramento expanded its city limits? Not well or fast enough! "Un-City" land still, I think, exceeds Sac City proper in population, although recent incorporations have substantially reduced it. The model for clout is San Jose, which annexed almost everything urbanized in Santa Clara County that Sunnyvale and Santa Clara didn't take. In general, Un-City land has the worst of both worlds, an unresponsive and unwieldy local government without the rural rustic lack of need for same. What should happen? Sac City proper should annex, as they have already studied: --Freeport --that "spike" of Fruitridge / Florin that sticks like a dagger into Sac City proper as it is, and everything suburbanized to the south / southeast that isn't Elk Grove --an odd "spike" of land that also sticks like a dagger between North Natomas and Robla --Rosemont --Arden Arcade (they had their chance to be a city in their own right and they blew it)

And in time, San Jose has begun to do just that. But first, the clout of a large city must come. If San Jose had not thrown out its city limits, it would be just another little California suburb. Sometimes little burbs manage to do mighty stadium things like Anaheim, but they are at the mercy of a big mucky muck like we are with the Maloofs. Their mucky mucks just happen to be benevolent.

What makes Sacramento unusual among California counties is the amount of unincorporated urbanized area in it, something that only began to change with the incorporation of Citrus Heights (1997), Elk Grove (2001) and Rancho Cordova (2003). But those are still separate cities, not "Sacramento". A distinct unwillingness of the people running Sacramento to accept the growth that was clearly on the way in the 1950's, led to Sacramento being hemmed in on all sides, save North Natomas, by other communities. Had Sacramento City proper thrown out its boundaries and annexed all the growth that occurred, like San Jose in Santa Clara County, Sacramento City proper would have the clout it needs for its bigger city ambitions. Whoever was running Sacramento proper in the 1950's and 1960's refused to throw the city boundaries out and annex the growth that the county government and surrounding counties like Placer were approving anyway. Very foolish of them. Rather than becoming the "Colossus of the Region" that could have had the power and clout to have goodies like stadiums with ease, Sacramento proper can now only hope for "first among equals" in this region at best. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if Elk Grove and Rancho Cordova, which have the LAFCO in their favor, could even overtake Sac proper in population one day.

I had my doubts about the arena, but jeffeff's succinct analysis makes me a harcore booster, if only to make the Commiecrat "left-liberal progressives" cry. Ah, the delightful double edged sword of public funding. Squeal, Demunists, squeal.

One would think the best way for brick and mortar eateries to compete against food trucks is to have (1) night life with a bar attached or (2) food a cut above that. Food trucks are also known as "industrial catering" or "roach wagons", right?

Frankly, Sacramento itself was (and to a large extent still *is*) a place where people priced out of the Bay Area landed. To this day it is a conversation starter among Roseville (Rocklin, Folsom) dwellers to ask the new neighbors, "What part of San Jose (Peninsula, East Bay) did you come from?"

Oh good lord--property taxes are the ONLY low taxes in California. In terms of aggregate taxation levels, California is right at the top. Be honest..... As for "sprawl", some of us call that "affordable single family starter homes". Many people don’t like living in dense urban cores, hipster fashion notwithstanding. It seems they like to have a yard for their kids to play in. And that’s why they are willing to endure endless traffic delays to provide that room for their kids. We can either recognize that and accommodate their needs, or refuse to recognize it and ruin of our standard of living and our quality of life.

Those of you who are tenants who voted for anti-development types, brought this upon yourselves. "California is second only to Washington, DC." in lack of affordable housing? It is second only to the District of Columbia territory in taxation, bureaucracy, and obstructions to developers, too.

"there is a chance the Maloofs say, "Well, the bird in hand is getting away, maybe we can still work this out!"." That raises an interesting question: Suppose the Maloofs, after chastisement from the NBA and after watching their dream deals implode elsewhere, decide to come back, hat in hand. What then?

Without actual power, how can one be a strong leader?