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The Sacramento Planning and Design Commission last week voted 10-0 in favor of a new six-story apartment complex planned near Alhambra Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Members of one neighborhood group said Tuesday they will appeal the decision, which would send the project before the Sacramento City Council for additional deliberation.<\/p>\n
The project has seen significant debate as neighbors complain about the size of the project while others say it would alleviate the city\u2019s housing crisis.<\/p>\n
Opponents of a dense apartment project planned in East Sacramento said Tuesday they would take their case to the Sacramento City Council.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s Planning and Design Commission on Thursday voted 10-0 in favor of a new 332-unit apartment complex planned on the long vacant Mary Ann\u2019s Bakery site. Project plans would see demolition and redevelopment of most of the city block bounded by Alhambra Boulevard, 30th Street, C Street and D Street.<\/p>\n
The Casa Loma Terrace \u2013 East Sac Neighborhood Association will file a formal appeal against the planning commission decision, association president Carl Seymour said Tuesday. The move will send the project before the council for an additional public hearing on the project.<\/p>\n
Project plans detail a six-story apartment complex, a six-level parking garage and a new coffeeshop on the ground floor of the apartments. Much of the brick facade from the historic Mary Anne\u2019s Bakery building would be kept on the exterior of the building.<\/p>\n
The group has until next Monday, Feb. 23 at 5 p.m. to file an appeal, according to the city\u2019s appeals form. The appeal also requires payment of a $1,045 filing fee.<\/p>\n
Group says project will \u2018irreparably damage\u2019 neighborhood<\/p>\n
The planned apartment complex continues to elicit strong feelings from residents in the area.<\/p>\n
The Planning and Design Commission hearing included 90 minutes of public comment. Even before the hearing, the city received 40 letters voicing both opposition and support for the project.<\/p>\n
The Casa Loma Terrace \u2013 East Sac Neighborhood Association formed largely in reaction to the planned apartment project.<\/p>\n
In a letter, Seymour cited concerns over traffic and the size of the building.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, this project will not preserve the neighborhood scale and character \u2014 in fact it will egregiously and irreparably damage it,\u201d Seymour wrote.<\/p>\n
City\u2019s discretion limited<\/p>\n
State housing laws have limited the ways cities can vote down proposed housing projects, in an attempt to remedy California\u2019s housing crisis.<\/p>\n
Leslie Walker, with the city attorney\u2019s office, reminded commissioners that housing projects that comply with the city\u2019s general plan and zoning laws can only be denied on the grounds of health and safety concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe commission has little discretion to deny the project unless it can make those health and safety findings,\u201d Walker told the commission at Thursday\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n
Commission Member David Nybo, who lives in East Sacramento, said he\u2019s seen numerous projects proposed near Alhambra Boulevard receive heavy opposition during his long tenure on the commission. Nybo has held stints on the Planning and Design Commission dating back to 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery single time people have come forward and they have said \u2018This is going to ruin East Sacramento,’\u201d Nybo said at last week\u2019s meeting. \u201cSo far it hasn\u2019t, and I don\u2019t think this project is going to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Felicia Alvarez is a reporter at Abridged covering accountability. She\u2019s called Sacramento home since 2015 and has reported on government, health care and breaking news topics for both local and national news outlets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Abridged version: The Sacramento Planning and Design Commission last week voted 10-0 in favor of a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5592,121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-182294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-feature","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}