As much as I feel the SPOA is as big a part of the problem as the Council... it is nice to see someone can play in the mud with the Council and throw some back.

Doesn't anyone see the humor in all; this? McCarthy tosses out the citizen maps and germands a district to his liking. Looks like he should have looked at who owned property in his new district. This is sweet justice if there ever is any!!!

As SHRA was/is the biggest slum lord in Oak Park... couldn't hear better news for O.P. Maybe now Oak Park can become the vibrant hip neighborhood it is capable of being now it is free of the yoke of SHRA and the Oak Park PAC!!!

The main problem is the location of the garage.. as long as the surface parking is directly across from County Welfare...it will simply traded Caltrans workers parking in Co-Op space with county workers. They will never walk further to a garage when they can just park their cars in the surface lot. Quite frankly there is light rail and several bus lines that serve the county office. The county should be encouraging mass transit. I don't understand why so much is devoted to parking. The whole project really has a disappointingly suburban design and layout..

So Oak Park will have another St Hope school which will not attract Oak Park residents anymore than Sacramento High does...

Maybe taxpayers won't be duped into paying $354,000 to construct each studio apartment anymore. Not sure why that is a bad thing when the average price of detached single family home is half that amount.

FINALLY!!! The place looked ready to open a month ago... If they did the tenant improvements then the owner leaving construction will be a loss to the local construction industry as they did a first rate, classy as all get out job!!

One wonders how much more damage she is planning to the city's future before she steps down.

Why doesn't the Sacramento Press follow journalistic standards and clearly identify editorials as such and stop the practice of presenting them as news articles. Regardless of the merit of any the the arguments... the writer clearly has an ax to grind...and that is what the editorial page and/or letters to the editor are for.

The author simply proved the point - the entire region has suffered due to the antiquated, dysfunctional form of city manager/weak mayor and weak council government in the largest urban center in the region..

So Mr. Burg has moved from just being a reader contributor expressing his small town views to now pretending to be a journalist apparently to attract a wider audience for his small town views. The thrust of his article is exactly why we need a strong mayor who can get beyond soothing the egos of every person who deems himself to be a neighborhood activists.

I can only pray Sacramentans will realize the charter proposal and re-electing the mayor are two entire different and separate issues. I intend to vote for the charter and against KJ's re-election.

Might recognize the harm words can cause. I live down the street and I think this is the first business in this location that has a real chance of making it. For one thing their customers are as diverse as the neighborhood(could never be said for anything Kevin Johnson did in O.P.). They put out a hell of good product at a price point the neighborhood can afford. I suspect you haven't been in the actual neighborhood for 20 years or maybe you sage advice is based on what you see on TV. The area is a safe as any other neighborhood, I walk around at 10:30PM without any problem. All that said.. while one should go there for great barbeque it is their sides that rock!! They don't brag about having the best tater tots for nothing!!

Would feel a lot better if the picture of his supporters more accurately represented District 2. In all honesty the central problem with the City Council has been it is made up of neighborhood activists with narrow interests, who despite their honorable intentions never grow beyond them Just as neighborhoods benefit from diversity so would the City Council.

I suspect the author would never be considered a 'risk taker'.. Simple economics is the arena and surrounding development will generate increased property. sales and hotel tax revenue for the city far more than the parking ever will. Forgetting the Kings (most arenas pack in more folks for concerts than they do for basketball) it will bring new dollars from outside of Sacramento with the new ability to host large conventions. And if anyone can get past their Sactown is a Cowtown mind set, the proposed operators will bring Sacramento parking into the 21st century. i would like to be able to find available street or covered parking with an app instead of circling blocks forever spewing toxic gases into the air.. but I guess smog is a better alternative than a smart business decision.

This should have been done years ago!!! Less than 150 students at Sac High are from Oak Park.. Sac High has not been part of Oak Park since Kevin Johnson engineered stealing it from the neighborhood. If you look at their proposal to the county, St Hope is all about creating race based schools. They have never understood that EVERY child who come from a home with a single parent with little education is at risk and deserves the kind of support program at St Hope. Instead they would rather their student develop and learn in an insular environment that guarantees Sac high students are being cheated and will fail when they enter the real world... all to benefit the agenda of St Hope founders. St Hope talks about how many of their students get into college... but enough time has past to look at the numbers that have actually graduated college.

Anyone who still drives to the Bay Area is crazy. It is both cheaper (when considering gas and parking) to take the train and BART into SF and now considerably more comfortable. One potential benefit is maybe the passengers that feel the need for everyone else to hear their phone conversations will now be too engrossed in surfing the web or IM their friends to be on their phones.

If KJ cannot deal with basic issues like this he does not deserve re-election. The long term solution is to privatize garbage pickup, which will negate the contract as the city will no longer be the entity collecting and disposing of the garbage. I hope every city employee in this department understands the Council has just cast the dye which will out source their jobs,

Hate to say it...but if the city didn't require first level retail in almost every new building, there might have fewer tenants that aren't able to pay their rent.. One wonders if the city planners every walk the city core...everything other space is either a parking garage or empty retail... or do they just drive their Beamers back to their gated suburban enclaves? Some day city planners and the Council will realize these businesses need more than a lunch crowd and start seriously working on market rate housing downtown

Found it interesting the stores had no problem with folks abandoning their kids at home to 'camp' out for some 'loss leader' 'bottom of the line' TV or other 'bargain'...but had issues with the Occupiers.