City Council is expected to vote January 19, 2021 on the Land Use elements of the 2040 General Plan, including neighborhood rezoning directly impacting your home:
- Town homes, row houses, cluster homes and quadplexes would be allowed throughout the neighborhoods, eliminating the single-family designation
- Zoning protection of your Traditional Residential Neighborhood status would go away
- Neighborhood commercial centers would allow 2-4 story mixed-use development
- Community Commercial Corridors could build-out at 5-6 stories
These growth strategies are in response to California’s housing and affordability crisis. We need your concerns to be represented.
In response to the City’s 2040 Community Plan engagement program and based on neighborhood discussions and surveys, Land Park Community Association (“LPCA”) has been engaged with City Staff on a proposal that, if implemented, could meet the City’s 2040 Community Plan objectives. Specifically, LPCA shared the following positions on proposed zoning modifications in Greater Land Park intended by the City to help achieve its Housing Infill SmartGrowth objectives:
- LPCA supported the City’s strategy for Broadway intensified growth, while recommending transitional height and mass restrictions to maintain a Traditional Neighborhood Main Street character in the Tower District and our Neighborhood Community Centers.
- LPCA opposed the City proposal to transform ALL existing traditional single-family residential neighborhoods, allowing by entitlement the building of small-lot housing, including rental quadplexes throughout the community. Alternatively, we proposed increasing housing variety by allowing townhouses, row houses and cluster housing on the community corridors around our Neighborhood Centers.
Despite the collaborative efforts, the Planning Design Commission forwarded to City Council a plan for adoption January 09, 2021 “as written”. In short, this would result in the death of the Traditional Single-Family Residential Neighborhood in Sacramento. In addition, to the building of Additional Dwelling Units (ADUs) now allowed by State Law on single-family lots, developers would be allowed to build quadplexes with neither parking provisions nor public review.
Please join the LPCA, City staff and your Council member at the next LPCA Land Use open meeting to provide your input and discuss community action. The LPCA meeting will be held Wednesday 13 January, 2021 @ 6:15 p.m. Zoom Link to Session:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85233155379?pwd=THVpZmJ5ckhZcFJRaDFDYzg3Si9KZz09
If you have a question, please contact the Land Use Committee at: landuse@landpark.org
To review the 2040 General Plan update click on this link; Item_18_-_2040_General_Plan_Update_Attachment_1_of_5_PDF-28347_KB