Downtown, Old Sacramento and midtown shoppers will be offered free parking to encourage people to shop and dine downtown during the holiday season. The City is offering free parking throughout downtown, midtown and Old Sacramento on weekdays from 4:30 p.m. and all day on weekends as well as two all-day meter holidays on Thursday, November 24, Thanksgiving Day, and Monday, December 26, the day after Christmas. The program will be in effect in these areas at these times: On-street metered parking §  There will be two all-day free weekday metered holidays: Thursday, November 24, Thanksgiving Day, and Monday, December 26, the day after Christmas. §  Weekends will be free all day from Satu

The City of Sacramento Department of Transportation is starting road resurfacing work throughout the City to keep the pavement as close as possible to its newly constructed condition. There may be minor traffic delays and inconvenience, however, when completed the streets will be in nearly new condition. The department aims to resurface every street in the City about once every ten years to maintain the quality of City streets in a cost effective manner with available funds. This month, work is starting in South Natomas. See the first week’s schedule. The schedule is subject to change. Check to see if your street is going to be resurfaced and when, via a tentative schedule that is posted

The City will reduce electricity use by more than 50 percent in its parking garages by replacing the existing lighting with new light-emitting diodes known as LEDs. The lighting retrofit is expected to save the City more than $1.1 million over 11 years. The new fixtures are being installed at five of the eight public parking garages owned by the City. Making use of a federal Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) from the U.S. Department of Energy that acts as a revolving loan program, SMUD incentives totaling $181,000 and a $289,000 rebate from the Energy Technology Assistance Program (ETAP)* allowed the City to afford the $1.3 million up-front cost of converting to the hi

The City Manager’s Office is announcing that Fran Halbakken, a professional engineer who has been leading the planning and policy for the Department of Transportation will begin reporting to the City Manager’s office as the Downtown Railyards Project Manager, effective Monday, June 27. In this role, Fran will act as the City’s lead on this multi-million dollar project. The Railyards and the future transit facility involves multiple City departments and many external public and private sector partners, stakeholders and financiers and remains the region’s number one priority. More than $200 million of public resources already have been amassed for the first phase of infrastructure and the r

Downtown residents, employees and commuters have an opportunity to learn more about Zipcar membership in a downtown car-sharing program, Thursday, April 7, 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cesar Chavez Park at 9th and I streets. Councilmember Steve Cohn, who spearheaded the idea of bringing car-sharing to downtown and midtown will join Zipcar Regional Vice President Dan Grossman along with other Zipcar staff, interested community members and stakeholders at an information booth at the park at 11:15 a.m. The membership day is intended to launch car-sharing in Sacramento – an economical and environmentally friendly alternative to car ownership. Zipcar, Inc., was selected as the City’s car share pro