Well, once again the 48 acres of land
North of East Sac between the Capital City Freeway and the Union
Pacific Railroad tracks near Sutter’s Landing Park is being
reviewed for development. The current name for the proposed
development is the Mckinley Village.
Many residents are getting involved in
the conversation and want to know what the impact will be.
Fortunately, there are many ways to find
out. I'm not going to try to recreate the wheel with all the thorough
journalistic (and some less than journalistic) reporting out there,
I'm just going to summarize the facts and point towards the
information.
I'm also not going to weigh in for one
side or the other just yet. As a resident of East Sac and the McKinley Park neighborhood, I'm very cautious of new
development and any increased traffic. As a Realtor, I am always
intrigued by new development (a good sign for the economy) and
homes for sale. I'll read all the information and go to the meeting
and try to slowly form my opinion of this potential development...
According to the Q&A of the developer this would be:
328 single family one and two story
homes on a 48-acre lot. Homes will range in size from approximately
1,250 square feet with three bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms to
approximately 2,500 square feet with five bedrooms and four
bathrooms. Some of the homes will feature an option for second units,
and others will have a master bedroom on the ground floor. This will be a $130
million development and they would expected the homes to sell from
$300,000 to $600,000 plus.
Access to the Mckinley Village development for cars, bike, and pedestrian would be through A and
28th Streets in Midtown, and via an under-crossing of the
UnionPacific Railroad tracks that connects through the Cannery
Business Park to C Street between 40th Street and Tivoli
Way in the McKinley Park neighborhood. There will also be a bike and
pedestrian under-crossing of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks at B
Street and Alhambra Boulevard in the McKinley Park neighborhood
Mckinley Village would also include 2.9
acres of park land, which will require that RCI (the developer) pay
maintenance fees to the Park and Recreation Department. There will be
over 2,000 trees and an additional 3.26 arches of common green space.
Here are the links to the most
informative articles that I have found:
A detailed article in The Sacrament Bee
The developers Q&A document
Brochure
Illustration
Plans
Several articles in the Sacramento
Press
And an article in the East Sac News
There are two upcoming meetings that I
plan on attending to find out more about the development and
participate in the conversation.
A community meeting sponsored by MENA
and ESIA on June 4th at 6:30pm at the Clunie Auditorium. The
presenters will display graphics and answer questions on the proposed
development. Other local development projects will be displaying
materials and answering questions at the meeting as well.
The Sacramento Old City Association is
organizing a public forum on Mckinley Village on June 8 at the
Midtown Village Cafe (1827 I St, Sacramento, CA 95811). The event
begins on at 9:00 AM so you better show up early to get your coffee
and a chair!
This might be an interesting one to
follow like the project at Curtis Park Village that has taken years to get off the ground. Then again it might not even get close to becoming anything and just stay an empty field for the next
several decades with the occasional resident living under a blue
tarp against that chain link fence seen from the highway...
I was just informed of another article on this project that might be of interest.
ReplyDeleteFrom the Sacramento Business Journal:
McKinley Infill Housing Project Revived, Tweaked
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2013/05/01/mckinley-infill-housing-project-revived.html