I thought wine making was all about the Region the grapes were grown, the weather there, the soil condition the varietal that Is best suited for a particular place. Is Sac County an ideal place to grow wine grapes?

"I believe we are the only city in California that consistently hits state goals for affordable housing" MAYBE that's why we're consistently unable to bring a vibrant life into the downtown area. I wonder if there is a connection. I think we're attracting lower income folks from other area's into our city and especially downtown with all the affordable housing projects and SRO's being built. I can't think of a single project that redevelopment has built that would bring middle class singles to the area - WHO SPEND MONEY!!!!! Only rich folks and poor folks can afford it - why would you CHOOSE to encourage very poor people to move downtown? It doesn't make economic sense - it's the EXACT opposite of revitalization. Too bad the Hotel Berry isn't getting the axe. As far as I'm concerned good riddance.

What makes you believe this will be high quality? AND what makes you think this will be for ALL income levels? AND what makes you think this will remove blight??? It will look the same from the outside, it will have the same people inside spilling onto Kst and loitering about the place. After 20million you will have absolutely no idea that anything has changed - unless someone tells you that 20mil was sunk into the place. The only change will be that the City will have locked in the SRO into the heart and center of a supposed revitalization. For the record, NY rebuilds these historic hotels and sells the condos to people of means with money (taxes) to spend in the the area. That is true revitalization. What this is that the city is doing, I'm not sure what to call it - perhaps, Retrenchment - of the status quo. Honesty, there are small minded and narrow minded people who don't want neighborhoods to gentrify and they cry to the council, and the spineless, incapable of grand vision council, folds to their demands. It's incompetent.

This is the BIGGEST WASTE of money I've heard of in a long time. Sacramento is getting SUCKERED and no wonder we are broke. $240k to give a shady character a closet to bunk in???.. Just cut them a check for $40k and give them a bus ticket back to West Sac, where they likely came from as they CLEAN UP THEIR funky areas. We should trade Mayors with W Sac. I bet their mayor would not conduct his business this way. The classy chicks with money to shop and their entourages are NEVER going to come downtown if you keep up this insanity. Let me guess this short sightedness was a DEMOCRATS idea. First violence on Second Saturday and now this. Who's in charge? It's an UGLY Building!!!1 Just bulldozz the thing. REally, you'd rather have this instead of something like The Guggenheim Museum? I'd love to know who makes these decisions and what their major was in college, if they even went to college. I think our City Planners went to Yuba City College or something. Cowtown.

Don't get me wrong I'm ALL FOR getting the homeless off the street, BUT who decided they get to live in brand new cool digs downtown, so near a new supposedly classy development? The worse part of this whole misguided idea is that there's an effort to build out the train station into a cool biz, shop, residential area; and the first thing you do is build a homeless place and health clinic right at the edge of the new development? Make up your mind - do you want to redevelop downtown or just perpetuate the down trodden nature of it? True redevelopment calls for guts, hard decisions, and a determined vision - not cow towing to squeaky advocates and opportunistic developers. There's a level of incompetence here that boggles the mind. These folks are going to be on SSI they are NOT going to be working and therefore have NO NEED to be in the downtown area at all. They can live anywhere, and you can build that clinic anywhere; so why would you park it at the edge of a planned redevelopment? If you want to bring more young professionals and freshly retired people to the downtown area you need to move the SRO's out away from the redevelopment. This land has become too valuable for such a purpose. Lot's of hard working people can't afford to live in new digs downtown - none of whom by the way would pay $500 for a 325 sq ft studio in a bldg half full of formerly homeless people. The point is - living in new digs downtown is NOT a right and should not be deemed as such by the powers that be. I would like to know more about this Portland project like what neighborhood it went into, and how the surrounding area was effected by its presence. Also, How many of these folks are bleeding over from West Sac due to their redevelopment?