Rhys02 comment-82844 2013-05-21T00:13:36Z 2013-05-21T00:13:36Z The author seems to fail note the city manager said the city could fund these positions IF the police would start contributing to their pensions. Any actuarial will tell you given the lavish pension the police and fire are scheduled to receive, they need to contribute at least 25% of their salary to adequately fund their pensions. If this sounds over the top, recognize the average citizen needs to contribute 22% of his or her income to max their 401k and pay into social security... for a pension far less lavish than the police and fire will enjoy. Rhys02 2013-05-21T00:13:36Z Rhys02 comment-82164 2013-05-01T00:36:11Z 2013-05-01T00:36:11Z and these guys are doing this on the taxpayer's dime??? They still don't get it... Rhys02 2013-05-01T00:36:11Z Rhys02 comment-82163 2013-05-01T00:34:38Z 2013-05-01T00:34:38Z This all might have some credibility if it was not being orchestrated by a lawyer who makes a living shaking down the city and county. The only person to have gained from any of this is the lawyer pocketing his settlements. Rhys02 2013-05-01T00:34:38Z Rhys02 comment-81990 2013-04-26T00:41:48Z 2013-04-26T00:41:48Z What are we paying these politicians for...it is to make decisions on our behalf!! I am so tired of NIMBY's wrapping themselves in the delusion that every decision they disagree with requires a vote by the general public. We just had a city council election. If any voter did not consider how their council person would vote on this issue in that election, then they weren't paying attention and I sincerely doubt their vote would be any better thought out now. Enough is Enough!! Rhys02 2013-04-26T00:41:48Z Rhys02 comment-81950 2013-04-25T04:07:14Z 2013-04-25T04:07:14Z Wonder if the festival is open to Palestinian vendors and exhibits? Rhys02 2013-04-25T04:07:14Z Rhys02 comment-81718 2013-04-17T00:14:11Z 2013-04-17T00:14:11Z I would posit to Ms. Cordell what Oak Park needs is not 'manufactured' street festivals, but market rate housing, which no developer is willing to do as long as the city requires the same level of subsidized housing as it would if the project were built in Land Park. The only thing holding Oak Park back is a lack of balanced housing at all price points. The last three projects built were 100% subsidized below market housing. No neighborhood is going to be healthy with residents of a single income level. Rhys02 2013-04-17T00:14:11Z Rhys02 comment-81685 2013-04-16T00:13:13Z 2013-04-16T00:13:13Z and one can see these same vendors where they have been accessible to all of midtown for years.... under the freeway, every Sunday, year round. Rhys02 2013-04-16T00:13:13Z Rhys02 comment-81299 2013-04-02T23:30:03Z 2013-04-02T23:30:03Z Here is hoping they have better/longer hours in the second location.. Rhys02 2013-04-02T23:30:03Z Rhys02 comment-81151 2013-03-29T18:27:20Z 2013-03-29T18:27:20Z What is the California HIGHWAY Patrol doing routine traffic patrol in the city limits. If they want the job Sacramento should just shut down its own police department and let state taxpayers pay for law enforcement in the city. Just think of what the CHP will do when it gets it hands on some drones... Rhys02 2013-03-29T18:27:20Z Rhys02 comment-81150 2013-03-29T18:24:01Z 2013-03-29T18:24:01Z Mr Burg's no growth bias can be seen in his choice of words. it is NOT a basketball arena!!!!! Kings would be there less than a third of the year. The balance of the year would be booked by the concerts and events that now bypass Sacramento because we don't have an adequate facility. I would suggest Mr Burg check with the Convention Center as to the numbers of conventions we lose because no convention, even if free transportation is thrown will travel to Sleep Train. Those convention dollars are NEW dollars from outside the area that Sacramento and its businesses will capture. This is the reason to support the event center, not the Kings. Mr. Burg obviously has an agenda and if he can keep the conversation about billionaires and basket ball he can kill this project. I suspect Mr Burg gets his coffee at Starbucks rather than a local shop. If Seattle wins they will have folks like Mr. Burg to thank even more than the 'whales' they collected. Rhys02 2013-03-29T18:24:01Z Rhys02 comment-81027 2013-03-27T00:15:13Z 2013-03-27T00:15:13Z I wonder where Mr Burg gets his information... possibly local law firms trolling for an issue to bill? There is nothing in the term sheet that expands metered parking or raises rates. In fact as Steve Cohen noted on KXJZ this am.. the methods used to estimate parking revenue were low balled and very conservative. Given the fact the events center will give a reason for folks to want to park downtown after 4PM.. Mr. Cohen expects revenue to increase. Any minimally informed person can see the city is getting a far better bargain than the railyard project and the impact will be immediate. If Mr. Burg wants to editorialize he should have the integrity to state that is what he is doing. If this is part of an effort to make himself known to the general public for a run on the City Council... Mr Burg should recognize he is leaving a very detailed history of being a NIMBY and anti-growth. Looking at the last election, not sure that is the image I would want to project. Rhys02 2013-03-27T00:15:13Z Rhys02 comment-80773 2013-03-20T00:34:44Z 2013-03-20T00:34:44Z Bigots and similar types used to live on the margins..then Rush Limbaugh came along, made it okay The result are mega-churches in the suburbs who preach hating others who are different is okay as long as one mouths the proper platitudes. What is the difference with that attitude and a Muslim extremist who dreams about 21 virgins...none that I can see. Rhys02 2013-03-20T00:34:44Z Rhys02 comment-80404 2013-03-12T01:37:52Z 2013-03-12T01:37:52Z Cash only when the target customer group pays for coffee with a card...do the math. Rhys02 2013-03-12T01:37:52Z Rhys02 comment-80238 2013-03-08T01:34:17Z 2013-03-08T01:34:17Z Who are these people that would be disturbed.. the bar is on a commercial street. I guess these folks in the Marshall Neighborhood group must be able to hear crickets rubbing their back legs in Elk Grove. When are the residents of downtown and midtown ever going to realize they do not live in a subruban gated community. Would love to see these NIMBYs survive in New York City Rhys02 2013-03-08T01:34:17Z Rhys02 comment-79965 2013-02-28T05:34:21Z 2013-02-28T05:34:21Z It is not fear that is driving this conversation, but pandering and opportunism by certain city council members. Need to remember what drove the original argument to make it illegal was a fear by suburban parents their white children were mixing with inner city Puerto Ricans. Had nothing to do with any real harm. Rhys02 2013-02-28T05:34:21Z Rhys02 comment-79930 2013-02-27T03:50:42Z 2013-02-27T03:50:42Z I would love to know exactly what crimes Mr. Fong is aware of that can be directly sourced to one of the dispensaries. Quite frankly the police get more calls for service at a Safeway that they do these clinics. Would Mr. Fong propose that no grocer could locate within a 1000 ft of a school or church? Rhys02 2013-02-27T03:50:42Z Rhys02 comment-79923 2013-02-27T01:21:00Z 2013-02-27T01:21:00Z What Downtown needs is stop searching for a magic commercial bullet and focus on the real problem, lack of an organic, local customer base. The Council's policy which make it virtually impossible to pencil out market rate housing, is actually making what little market rate housing there is artificially expensive. The best thing the Council could do is rescind its pay to play policies and allow a glut of market rate housing. This would have the perverse outcome of making all housing in the central city more affordable, while at the same time providing the local customer base downtown and midtown merchants need to thrive. Rhys02 2013-02-27T01:21:00Z Rhys02 comment-79917 2013-02-27T01:13:59Z 2013-02-27T01:13:59Z This isn't the first artist of note Old Soul has hosted in Oak Park, but one of several which are both significant and interesting.. Rhys02 2013-02-27T01:13:59Z Rhys02 comment-79674 2013-02-18T03:39:54Z 2013-02-18T03:39:54Z A state agency that is moving hundreds of jobs out of downtown to Elk Grove, noted that many of its employees already live in Elk Grove. The reason they live there, is this city council likes its predecessors, focuses only on subsidized housing. I suspect this is the first of a number of agencies who will relocate closer to their workers. This trend will result in the Sac Metro area becoming an economic doughnut. The surrounding communities will be thriving, while Sacramento an empty center, focusing on the homeless and subsidized housing. Sacramento has actually builds more subsidized housing than market rate...despite what politicians like William Burg say. Rhys02 2013-02-18T03:39:54Z Rhys02 comment-79373 2013-02-09T01:41:11Z 2013-02-09T01:41:11Z Here we go again...without a formal plan, neighborhood NIMBY's are criticizing the project. I wonder if these folks ever get the connection that a major factor in Sacramento's deteriorating, filthy air, is that only place any developer can build more than a single car garage is in the suburbs.. because city residents will complain and complain until either they bankrupt the developer or the developers just throw up their hands in disgust and walk away. Long-live Heather Fargo... she has mentored many acolytes and the city still is being held back for it.. Rhys02 2013-02-09T01:41:11Z Rhys02 comment-79328 2013-02-07T04:34:42Z 2013-02-07T04:34:42Z Perhaps if the city had not entered into a disastrous contract to dump its refuse it wouldn't need this program. Perhaps if the city had been prudently setting aside a portion of utility income to replace its ancient pipe systems (instead of skimming the money to cover other departments, this subsidy program would not be needed. As the Bee has noted Sacramento city residents now pay the highest utility payments in the area. There was a time when they paid the lowest. The obvious solution is to outsource most of these services, which if nothing else would stem the huge future unfunded pension costs it is hoisting on future city ratepayers. Rhys02 2013-02-07T04:34:42Z Rhys02 comment-79231 2013-02-05T01:13:26Z 2013-02-05T01:13:26Z What is new about this? An annual membership to the center is about $15..something even folks on a limited budget can afford. Rhys02 2013-02-05T01:13:26Z Rhys02 comment-79026 2013-01-31T03:57:31Z 2013-01-31T03:57:31Z Well at least in the end the author was hosting.,... he is trolling for speaking gigs. Rhys02 2013-01-31T03:57:31Z Rhys02 comment-78958 2013-01-29T05:16:29Z 2013-01-29T05:16:29Z My entire home is furnished with finds from the Antique Company. Rhys02 2013-01-29T05:16:29Z Rhys02 comment-78956 2013-01-29T01:15:46Z 2013-01-29T01:15:46Z Here is a suggestion for REAL budgeting...deduct the cost of sending fire engines to medical calls and you will have enough money to increase the police and restore most of the other city departments that were decimated by the fire department's intransigence. Any City Councilperson who approves ANY money for the fire department needs to be voted out of office. It is time this Council start addressing the problems it swept under the carpet all these years and have resulted in the fiscal mess we now find ourselves in. If anyone thinks Measure U is going to return the city to fiscal soundness...watch how this Council blows all the new money pandering to special interests and incurs massive future unfunded costs to boot. Rhys02 2013-01-29T01:15:46Z Rhys02 comment-78870 2013-01-25T03:16:36Z 2013-01-25T03:16:36Z Couldn't agree with you more... actually shop local in a mall.. wow!!!! Rhys02 2013-01-25T03:16:36Z Rhys02 comment-78869 2013-01-25T03:13:57Z 2013-01-25T03:13:57Z Another healthy choice for midtowners... walk the two miles max to the market under the freeway. Rhys02 2013-01-25T03:13:57Z Rhys02 comment-78707 2013-01-22T03:21:35Z 2013-01-22T03:21:35Z Unbelievable that an article could be written on community radio supporting local artists and not once mention the granddaddy of the them all -- KVMR Nevada City (89.5 in Sacramento). Capitol Public Radio is 'public' radio... KVMR is community radio. Rhys02 2013-01-22T03:21:35Z Rhys02 comment-78620 2013-01-18T03:18:46Z 2013-01-18T03:18:46Z Do some these folks writing to support gun rights think whoever did this walked into KMart or WalMart to get their guns... No, they steal them from card caring NRA members.. safe in the knowledge the gun owners will never report the crime and face the 'embarrassment'. One solution is to hold the last registered owner of a gun at least civilly liable for any crimes committed with the gun. That is the case if you sell your car and don't ensure the sale is recorded through DMV, no reason why the theory should not also apply to something whose only purpose is to kill things. Rhys02 2013-01-18T03:18:46Z Rhys02 comment-78478 2013-01-16T02:48:38Z 2013-01-16T02:48:38Z This is amazing... the reason we needed Measure U was the intransigence of both the police and fire in paying for their own pensions (like the rest of society) and changing their artificial work practices (i.e. rolling fire engines out to pure medical call, where there is not so much as a cigarette burning) and city staff is recommending they get the lion share of the new money? The money should be used to restore all the parks and other city employees who were laid off as a result of law enforcement lobby protecting their turf. Newark, New Jersey is disbanding their police department because the department is bankrupting the city. Sac Police and Fire ought to get a reality check. If the City Council gives these departments more money they can join the city workers they laid off while they pandered to the police and fire lobby. Really... enough is enough!! Rhys02 2013-01-16T02:48:38Z Rhys02 comment-78153 2013-01-11T06:10:00Z 2013-01-11T06:10:00Z If the city had not been spending all of its money on K Street bottom feeding landowners...it could have provided a bridge loan to Mr. Saca and the Towers would have been built. Think of how much in property taxes would have been streaming in to the city coffers if they had supported Mr. Saca instead of buying eye sores on K Street (which to this day also sit empty). . Someday the city council will understand it is more important to build a customer base for businesses than all the subsidies SHRA can throw away after one retail rabbit hole after another. Rhys02 2013-01-11T06:10:00Z Rhys02 comment-77980 2013-01-08T03:24:57Z 2013-01-08T03:24:57Z Why is a playground costing more than a McMansion in Placer County? How much of the costs are fees charged by city departments which see a neighborhood with a few coins in its collective pockets to pick clean? I know on the several McClatchy Park redesigns...city departments took the lion's share of the funds under the ruse of 'fees'. Idle observation... it will be built with noncombustible materials, but the city wants what ... $100K to put in a sprinkler system? Rhys02 2013-01-08T03:24:57Z Rhys02 comment-77384 2012-12-20T00:34:03Z 2012-12-20T00:34:03Z Not sure why this has been such a surprise.. Her conduct expresses a view of honesty and integrity which is pretty typical of the 'entitled' class. Rhys02 2012-12-20T00:34:03Z Rhys02 comment-77265 2012-12-18T05:03:09Z 2012-12-18T05:03:09Z Have these guys no shame???? Rhys02 2012-12-18T05:03:09Z Rhys02 comment-77255 2012-12-18T01:15:09Z 2012-12-18T01:15:09Z While it won't get the phone back phone carriers (or there are apps) will shut a phone down.. Rhys02 2012-12-18T01:15:09Z Rhys02 comment-77201 2012-12-15T00:11:29Z 2012-12-15T00:11:29Z Why would they site this on such a busy street... sadly it already looks institutional.. Rhys02 2012-12-15T00:11:29Z Rhys02 comment-76941 2012-12-11T00:12:59Z 2012-12-11T00:12:59Z I wonder if the city council gets the connection between tired buildings being replaced by parking lots instead of housing? Up the street at 29th & J Street there was a restaurant that was old, torn down and to this day is still a parking lot... in spite of being in the same block as Sutter hospital. The Clarion is in the center of a loft housing street and I suspect for years it will also be a parking lot. The Council can't sit back after relaxing the suburban parking requirements it for years imposed on the central city and call it a day. It needs to look at all the 'pay to play' schemes it supports whether from exorbitant building fees to onerous requirements to include subsidized low income housing. One thing that might get the City Council's attention is when the property owner get the site re-assessed as a parking lot. I suspect we are the only municipality in the area which continues to lose both property and sales taxes. Rhys02 2012-12-11T00:12:59Z Rhys02 comment-76842 2012-12-07T21:52:00Z 2012-12-07T21:52:00Z and the hours???? Rhys02 2012-12-07T21:52:00Z Rhys02 comment-76785 2012-12-06T00:15:20Z 2012-12-06T00:15:20Z Politicians putting another 'affordable housing' project in Oak Park... When will they ever push for market rate housing in O P has vigorously as they do low income housing? btw another low income housing unit is going up just up the street near the intersection of Broadway and Stockton. ' Rhys02 2012-12-06T00:15:20Z Rhys02 comment-76654 2012-12-04T06:26:46Z 2012-12-04T06:26:46Z Is the author aware...Discovery park is supposed to flood... It real reason for existence is as a relief valve for the rivers. Being a park is secondary. I look forward to the park flooding as a sign we just might have a decent rain year. Rhys02 2012-12-04T06:26:46Z Rhys02 comment-76653 2012-12-04T06:22:22Z 2012-12-04T06:22:22Z I am sorry...but who would want to drive to the hinterlands in Elk Grove. With .no mass transit of any kind it would be the only option and since it is at the edge of the metro area, almost everyone would need to clog the freeways. Rhys02 2012-12-04T06:22:22Z Rhys02 comment-76536 2012-12-01T00:10:33Z 2012-12-01T00:10:33Z The almost even split of votes between Hansen and Yee suggests the district was not structured as a cohesive district. Clearly Land Park and Curtis Park have more in common than Land Park and Downtown. Would be interesting to see a map or table of votes by precincts to either validate or disprove this hypothesis. Rhys02 2012-12-01T00:10:33Z Rhys02 comment-76443 2012-11-29T02:02:18Z 2012-11-29T02:02:18Z What I find amazing is Mr Petrovich wants put in a Safeway. He not only gave Safeway (over local firms) a near monopoly in mid and downtown, he apparently now intends to put Taylor's Market and the Freeport Raleys out of business. It is rather sad these 'local' developers have done so much to mall over the central city and now are moving on to Curtis Park. Rhys02 2012-11-29T02:02:18Z Rhys02 comment-76357 2012-11-27T18:31:18Z 2012-11-27T18:31:18Z Nice to see this happening...for a while it looked like it would be turned into a park one would see in the suburbs... Rhys02 2012-11-27T18:31:18Z Rhys02 comment-76335 2012-11-27T04:20:51Z 2012-11-27T04:20:51Z The city tried this once already...in Old Sac all those businesses lining the rail lines were supposed to be stalls for a permanent farmers market. It failed primarily because hardly any locals go to Old Sac. It is an example, as is also proposed here, of the city forcing what the free market will not support.. Where are the customers on the north bank of the American River? Rather than manufacturing something why not go with what already works and make the market under the freeway by Southside Park a daily market. Rhys02 2012-11-27T04:20:51Z Rhys02 comment-76187 2012-11-21T18:18:44Z 2012-11-21T18:18:44Z What part of there will be time for extensive community input -- once a developer is selected don't these folks understand? So typical of Sacramento, can't even improve a neighborhood without talking the project to death...in this case before it ever gets off the ground. What is really frustrating is the lack of any back bone on the city council. Somewhere in their job descriptions is the requirement to lead.. be nice if just once they would. Rhys02 2012-11-21T18:18:44Z Rhys02 comment-75413 2012-11-02T03:23:08Z 2012-11-02T03:23:08Z Why is the police department involved to begin with? If the neighbors have an issue they can take it to the ABC themselves. If the city does, it is code enforcement who should be providing information to the ABC and not advocating a position much less deciding what it will allow a business to do. City of Sacramento has become a place where one is only allowed to do what the city permits you to do. I suspect living in China or Russia, one would be hard pressed to tell the difference with those locals and Sacramento. Rhys02 2012-11-02T03:23:08Z Rhys02 comment-75258 2012-10-30T02:01:09Z 2012-10-30T02:01:09Z To say the commission is a distraction is being very polite.. It is however the preferred method of talking to death any item the city council doesn't want to deal with. What city the size of Sacramento is still governed like a homeowner's association? We will need council members who can actually lead to get any real change... and that sadly is something every member of the current council lacks. Rhys02 2012-10-30T02:01:09Z Rhys02 comment-74727 2012-10-16T00:05:44Z 2012-10-16T00:05:44Z Where is the rest of the article....all it says so far is the ULI was its third trip to Sacramento.... so???? What did they recommend? Or did the city staffer who authored the article not stay for the presentation? Rhys02 2012-10-16T00:05:44Z Rhys02 comment-74652 2012-10-14T05:45:15Z 2012-10-14T05:45:15Z Who would vote for measure when the main group supporting it (the fire union) is breaking the law by plastering their signs on properties without the owners permission. It is ironic the firefighters union has taken such a public position on Measure U, since it their pensions and refusal to reform work practices that is bankrupting Sacramento and making the measure necessary. Rhys02 2012-10-14T05:45:15Z Rhys02 comment-74551 2012-10-11T03:00:23Z 2012-10-11T03:00:23Z I wonder where the Pacific Legal Foundation is? PLF is always decrying what they see as government encroachment on civil liberties. Well here is a classic case.. Why is the PLF not offering the support of its legal team to take the city on. Certain folks like to raise the alarm over federal regulations, when in fact the regulations, fees and licenses imposed for no fundamental government reason by local governments are the real impediments to economic health. I suspect the city's Revenue Division provided the council with financial projections on how much the city could expect to collect in fines with this ordinance. Rhys02 2012-10-11T03:00:23Z Rhys02 comment-74389 2012-10-08T21:54:25Z 2012-10-08T21:54:25Z The reason for the Bee and SN&R endorsing Mr Hansen can be seen in the pages of the Sacramento Press. Mr. Hansen agreed to be interviewed by staff and take questions from readers and Mr Yee chose to write an article. Mr Yee's is first and foremost a city staffer and then professionally an architect. Since current members of the Council allow city staff to set the agenda and direction of city government, when it should be the other way around, the last thing Sacramento needs are city staffers on the Council itself. Rhys02 2012-10-08T21:54:25Z Rhys02 comment-74323 2012-10-05T23:39:59Z 2012-10-05T23:39:59Z There is an adult products store on Broadway, that in 30 years has had fewer police calls than the McDonald's down the street has in a single year. These distance rules from schools and parks is just so much sophomoric pablum, that really just meant as a way to harass a business out of existence. We now have sex offenders and ex-cons homeless and living in the American River Parkway because they cannot find housing that isn't within some ridiculous prohibited distance from schools and parks. Rhys02 2012-10-05T23:39:59Z Rhys02 comment-74119 2012-10-02T02:42:40Z 2012-10-02T02:42:40Z Isn't this a bit premature and arrogant? The voters have yet to weigh in on this and even the Bee is recommending a No vote. Rhys02 2012-10-02T02:42:40Z Rhys02 comment-74065 2012-09-30T04:22:47Z 2012-09-30T04:22:47Z It is interesting... Mr. Boyd says he wants to speak for all of Oak Park, but clearly has a very specific and narrow personal agenda. If folks on EBT want to go to a restaurant, or a coffee shop, there has to be a mix of income in the neighborhood that will support the businesses day to day... That cannot happen when every new development is specifically built to serve only low income. Rhys02 2012-09-30T04:22:47Z Rhys02 comment-74031 2012-09-28T16:46:43Z 2012-09-28T16:46:43Z What gentrification? The first portion of the Triangle Project will be low income housing. Going up Broadway to MLK is a senior's low income housing. Go up to the intersection with Stockton Blvd, turn west and there is more low income housing being constructed. To top all that off the county is reopening its residential mental health facility several blocks away also on Stockton Blvd. NO neighborhood will ever be vibrant and safe when it is used as dumping ground by the rest of the area for housing they don't want in their neighborhoods. One doesn't hear the Curtis Park Neighborhood Association fretting whether there will be enough low income housing going into the new Taylor development by City College. Rhys02 2012-09-28T16:46:43Z Rhys02 comment-73998 2012-09-28T03:47:56Z 2012-09-28T03:47:56Z Locking someone up for life (perhaps we can take away their cable service) is just as effective as sticking a needle in them.. Besides the $130 million California spends every year on death row inmates could be used elsewhere...like schools or parks. Rhys02 2012-09-28T03:47:56Z Rhys02 comment-73995 2012-09-28T03:15:05Z 2012-09-28T03:15:05Z It was less than 20 years ago the city poured over $5,000,000 into McClatchy (half of it from McClatchy) . Why can't they find a couple of thousand to fence in the children's play area in 4th Avenue Park, just down the street. Rhys02 2012-09-28T03:15:05Z Rhys02 comment-73946 2012-09-27T03:43:43Z 2012-09-27T03:43:43Z Didn't Mr Cohn vote to approve the deal with the firefighters where they now pay a whole 2% into their pensions, but in case that might actually be a contribution - at the same time Mr Cohn voted to approve a 3% raise. Interesting not only did Mr Cohn accomplish nothing toward making the pensions solvent, he made it further insolvent as the pay raise will inflate future pension costs. And he wants us to increase the sales tax....right.... Rhys02 2012-09-27T03:43:43Z Rhys02 comment-73879 2012-09-26T00:10:35Z 2012-09-26T00:10:35Z The problem Mr Gonzales, is Ms Jones, like all city staffers only sees thing from their point of view...never consider their customer who are also their employers - the taxpayers of Sacramento. One has only to consider the city is insisting on doing in the curb pickup fo green waste during December and January instead of the spring when most folks are cleaning their yards out... Rhys02 2012-09-26T00:10:35Z Rhys02 comment-73833 2012-09-25T00:30:26Z 2012-09-25T00:30:26Z So this is how KJ moves the city forward... I suspect if it had been a midnight hoops competition, the promoters would have had no problem. Does the city every consider simply requiring the promoters to provide their own security and traffic control. I am sure they could get it a a third of the cost of police and fire who use these events to pad their overtime pay. Rhys02 2012-09-25T00:30:26Z Rhys02 comment-73685 2012-09-19T01:14:15Z 2012-09-19T01:14:15Z KJ should hire Mr. Cabaldon for his staff... Would be nice to have ONE person in the mayor's office that has actually demonstrated he can run a city effectively... Rhys02 2012-09-19T01:14:15Z Rhys02 comment-73573 2012-09-16T03:38:33Z 2012-09-16T03:38:33Z Would have been nice if this had posted a couple of weeks ago so folks could make plans... Rhys02 2012-09-16T03:38:33Z Rhys02 comment-73376 2012-09-11T02:36:14Z 2012-09-11T02:36:14Z I wonder if the City Council has a clue what it sounds like? This is as bad as the time the last Oak Park councilperson voted against an office development because the height of the proposed building would block her view of the Capitol. I suspect the Council is so out of touch the 'phrase 'let them eat cake' holds no irony for them any,more. Rhys02 2012-09-11T02:36:14Z Rhys02 comment-73127 2012-09-01T02:01:55Z 2012-09-01T02:01:55Z This is pablum!! All the city is doing is providing space for UPS trucks to get out of traffic and residents to put out their refuse cans. Dedicated bike lanes with a PHYSICAL barrier separating them from vehicle lanes are bike lanes... anything less is just a waste of striping paint. The best evidence is the vast majority of bicyclists who still ride on the sidewalks on streets with so-called 'bike lanes'. Rhys02 2012-09-01T02:01:55Z Rhys02 comment-73109 2012-08-31T00:23:27Z 2012-08-31T00:23:27Z Will this be accessible by mass transit??? Rhys02 2012-08-31T00:23:27Z Rhys02 comment-72816 2012-08-24T01:03:47Z 2012-08-24T01:03:47Z Perhaps Virginia Beach is willing to turn over all sources of income to the Maloofs..Sacramento is not. Good riddance to a loser ownership team. Perhaps now we do what we should have been trying to do all along..secure a professional soccer team Oh.. btw leave a cashiers check for the $70 mil you owe us on the nightstand when you leave.. Rhys02 2012-08-24T01:03:47Z Rhys02 comment-72815 2012-08-24T00:57:55Z 2012-08-24T00:57:55Z Don't Android based devices (both smartphone and tablets) outsell Apple. Samsung alone sells more smartphones than Apple. Rhys02 2012-08-24T00:57:55Z Rhys02 comment-72811 2012-08-23T23:53:46Z 2012-08-23T23:53:46Z It should also be noted...the stretch of the bike path is used by tourist from the hotels near Richards Blvd as well as tourist renting bikes in Old Sac and then heading north along the trail. Folks entering the trail on R Street and other points south of Old Sac also use this portion to get to Discovery Park. My understanding is the city is looking to maximize the number of visitors to the Power Museum who will come by something other than a car. This guy could get a job with the city..he thinks just like them... only from the viewpoint of the bureaucrat and never with any consideration of the users of the service or the public paying his salary. The reporter might have provided the address for the bike shop...most Sacramentans don't know there are more than candy and t shirt shops in Old Sac. Rhys02 2012-08-23T23:53:46Z Rhys02 comment-72627 2012-08-21T03:14:51Z 2012-08-21T03:14:51Z Give the city a chance... I am sure they are working very diligently on all the roadblocks they can put in the new owners way... after all KJ is still pining for cars (I guess he really likes the odor of car exhaust fumes)... Rhys02 2012-08-21T03:14:51Z Rhys02 comment-72626 2012-08-21T03:03:01Z 2012-08-21T03:03:01Z This is what passes for democracy in Sacramento... I suspect the Council is very pleased with itself. Wonder if it is too late to recall KJ for just generally being an ineffective jerk... Rhys02 2012-08-21T03:03:01Z Rhys02 comment-72556 2012-08-20T01:30:31Z 2012-08-20T01:30:31Z What I fail to understand is why the city is inserting itself in this issue to begin with. 1. The city is not regulating health and safety...which should be the extent of any public interest. The city is picking winners and losers 2. If Council members would ever patronize the trucks..they would find out food from the trucks is in the same price range as restaurants. The trucks may not have the same costs as brick and mortar restaurants..but they have their own unique costs which eliminate any real price advantage.. Rhys02 2012-08-20T01:30:31Z Rhys02 comment-72379 2012-08-16T02:18:23Z 2012-08-16T02:18:23Z What local citizens? In the last 40 years CADA has built fewer housing units than San Diego and Portland did in a single year. In the last three years every housing development of more than 25 units has been subsidized housing. Perhaps if the City Council and KJ hadn't been wasting tens of millions of dollars trying to acquire land from bottom feeding property owners and focused on mid and high density market rate housing...the Plaza would not be dependent on folks driving in from the suburbs. That is the sole reason why Westfield had no problem spending $250M on the Galleria, but wanted massive subsidies to do anything in the Plaza. Rhys02 2012-08-16T02:18:23Z Rhys02 comment-72110 2012-08-09T00:52:12Z 2012-08-09T00:52:12Z It is always rationalized the money comes from federal or state funds (don't worry no local funds are used). No matter what government source the money comes from it is TAXPAYER money. This needs to be remember as we spend north of what it would cost to build a home complete with a three car garage in the suburbs to build an SRO or efficiency unit. If Romney was paying his fair share in taxes...I might not mind...but it is working folks who are paying taxes not the Romneys' Rhys02 2012-08-09T00:52:12Z Rhys02 comment-72072 2012-08-08T00:28:03Z 2012-08-08T00:28:03Z What is sad is this a a further de-gentrification of Alkali Flats. What the A F and other neighborhoods like Oak Park need is a BALANCED mix of housing. City staffers (many of them former staffers in SHRA) are all too happy to dump more below market rate housing in these struggling neighborhoods. They assume the neighborhoods should be grateful because something is being built. You will never get full service grocers and other retailers to move into a neighborhood when most of its residents are on some sort of subsidy. Get a good balance of market rate and subsidized housing and there will be plenty of places to shop..for everyone, including those for whom a restaurant is a treat only afforded once every couple of months. Rhys02 2012-08-08T00:28:03Z Rhys02 comment-72000 2012-08-07T01:22:51Z 2012-08-07T01:22:51Z Didn't Jerry Brown close SHRA?? Rhys02 2012-08-07T01:22:51Z Rhys02 comment-71978 2012-08-07T00:22:25Z 2012-08-07T00:22:25Z Interesting ... KJ and the Sac City Council can't even keep a minor league football team inside the city limits. Rhys02 2012-08-07T00:22:25Z Rhys02 comment-71812 2012-08-02T03:03:35Z 2012-08-02T03:03:35Z I hope they are open Sunday mornings,..would be a terrific pairing with a trip to the Sunday Farmer's Market. Rhys02 2012-08-02T03:03:35Z Rhys02 comment-71811 2012-08-02T02:59:35Z 2012-08-02T02:59:35Z This sounds like they are simply remaking the Java City store into full service coffee shop ala Old Soul in Oak Park or Coffee Works on Folsom Blvd. Something Java City could have done if it had just turned over the operation to franchisee. Rhys02 2012-08-02T02:59:35Z Rhys02 comment-71707 2012-07-31T02:39:16Z 2012-07-31T02:39:16Z And so he is also responsible for the fact the department uses all of the money it charges for salaries and perks instead of setting aside a prudent portion to replace a sewer and water system on the brink of total failure... nothing like rewarding incompetence... Rhys02 2012-07-31T02:39:16Z Rhys02 comment-71584 2012-07-27T23:17:29Z 2012-07-27T23:17:29Z The reporter forgot to mention Ms. Serna-Mayorga was originally KJ's employee at St Hope. Part of theSt Hope crew he en-mass brought with him to city hall. Rhys02 2012-07-27T23:17:29Z Rhys02 comment-71296 2012-07-24T00:50:23Z 2012-07-24T00:50:23Z I thought Mr. Burg's vision of downtown is one that rolls up the sidewalks by 5:30PM... Surely you could have found someone with a more positive vision of what the city could be.. We all know why it has never reached its potential...combination of NIMBY's in every neighborhood in the city limits and a city council full of neighborhood activists who never outgrew that limited role. Rhys02 2012-07-24T00:50:23Z Rhys02 comment-71278 2012-07-23T02:48:00Z 2012-07-23T02:48:00Z Ms Gerber lives within half mile of work, but drives and complains about parking. Works downtown but cannot find a place for lunch without getting in a car... need to keep things in perspective. I suspect Ms Gerber would be more comfortably living near the Galleria. Rhys02 2012-07-23T02:48:00Z Rhys02 comment-71212 2012-07-20T01:45:29Z 2012-07-20T01:45:29Z It is revealing the city's chief negotiator runs the revenue division.. it suggests what has been holding this up is the city doesn't feel it has squeezed enough fees out of the truck operators. Another reason why the Sacramentans need to clear out the city council and the mayor. They obviously are incapable of bringing city staff to heel. Rhys02 2012-07-20T01:45:29Z Rhys02 comment-70977 2012-07-17T01:17:45Z 2012-07-17T01:17:45Z This is what KJ should have been pursuing all along. If Elk Grove ends up with a team instead of downtown Sacramento... KJ will have a lot to answer for and no political future. Rhys02 2012-07-17T01:17:45Z Rhys02 comment-70649 2012-07-10T01:13:02Z 2012-07-10T01:13:02Z Every time the mayor begins to show some vision ala Joe Serna...he reminds us ...no he is just KJ one of those gifted athletes who live in a cocoon separate from the reality the rest of us live in. Does he honestly think West Sacramento is going to settle for folks buying tickets but going across the river to eat and party? West Sacramento has been running rings around Sacramento ever since it incorporated... why would they stop now? And why would anyone want to replace the Rivercats who are both just the right size for the Sacramento market and more importantly are the rare family friendly/priced professional team. Rhys02 2012-07-10T01:13:02Z Rhys02 comment-70597 2012-07-09T02:01:56Z 2012-07-09T02:01:56Z What the county needs to deal with is why so few of their employees use mass transit. Not only is there a light rail stop within a block, but also a number of bus lines on 29th and 30th. If these folks are getting free parking (well free except that taxpayers are picking up the costs) they are getting something few other urban workers get. Rhys02 2012-07-09T02:01:56Z Rhys02 comment-70411 2012-07-04T00:59:15Z 2012-07-04T00:59:15Z You have got to be kidding!!! You honestly think the Kings were a threat to the Lakers.. and thathe media deal was put to bed some time ago. Just once it would be nice to see a comment from you with some VISION instead of carping. The real question is why were we pursuing basketball in the first place. There is a reason it has the smallest venue of any of the major league sports. If anyone bother to look at school sports we should have gone after Major League Soccer. A Canadian city had over 59,000 attend an opening day. It would be a sport we would not be competing with the Bay area for an audience. Rhys02 2012-07-04T00:59:15Z Rhys02 comment-69794 2012-06-20T23:54:19Z 2012-06-20T23:54:19Z I agree with the franchisee, Mr Richey that McDonalds would have brought badly needed jobs to the neighborhood...but they would have been across the street in the Obesity Ctr and other clinics that deal with the aftermath of kids brought up on a McDonald's diet by lazy, uncaring parents. Rhys02 2012-06-20T23:54:19Z Rhys02 comment-69746 2012-06-20T01:55:43Z 2012-06-20T01:55:43Z Hauser has it exactly right. The social sand medical costs to all taxpayers and to the American Society enabled mainly by firms like McDonald and Walmart whose greed is driving the diabetic epidemic in this country. And if you don't believe it read the Bee's article.. the immediate neighborhood has twice the preventable illnesses of Sacramento as a whole. Also consider all the countries who never had a national issue with diabetes and heart disease until McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken entered their market. The issue of private property is bogus for two reasons.. 1, One's responsibility to the community should trump one's narrow personal interests. 2. McDonalds doesn't own the property.. John Saca does and it is rather sad this local success story has so little interest in the health of his community. Rhys02 2012-06-20T01:55:43Z Rhys02 comment-69542 2012-06-15T02:32:51Z 2012-06-15T02:32:51Z If these guys had a clue they would open up in the Galleria where their customers live instead of midtown... or perhaps the sheriff has space for rent next to the room where he hands out concealed weapons permits... Rhys02 2012-06-15T02:32:51Z Rhys02 comment-69393 2012-06-13T01:36:38Z 2012-06-13T01:36:38Z The problem is not the city needs to limit the service, but it did so solely for its convenience and with no consideration when residents actually need in street service. Why is the city doing street pick up in December when leave fall is finished and in not in any of the spring months when residents are cleaning up for the upcoming summer. I can fill one of the fool containers is less than 30 minutes...stuffing it to overflowing, this time of the year. Rhys02 2012-06-13T01:36:38Z Rhys02 comment-69392 2012-06-13T01:30:24Z 2012-06-13T01:30:24Z Only RT would think it appropriate to stage a grand opening fete, when it has accomplished less than 10% of a project... Rhys02 2012-06-13T01:30:24Z Rhys02 comment-69310 2012-06-12T03:40:58Z 2012-06-12T03:40:58Z I wonder how IHOP thinks they will ever compete/hold a candle to Mel's Diner down the street. I really think the franchisee got taken for a ride...something that happened to Subway franchisees who saw the HQ sell several other franchises within blocks of where were putting their life savings... Rhys02 2012-06-12T03:40:58Z Rhys02 comment-69208 2012-06-09T04:51:27Z 2012-06-09T04:51:27Z If the Council wants more revenue how about fast tracking instead of micro-managing as much market rate housing as possible. The increase in property taxes could more than match what they expect from this proposal. Makes little sense to be raising the sales tax when the issue is you don't have any customers because the city bends over every time a neighborhood group tries to stop every development. New residents = new customers = more sale taxes. In fact I wonder how many tens of millions the city has lost in property and sales taxes..while they let the nimby's in Curtis Park stall and almost kill the Taylor project. Maybe if they hadn't fought the developer trying to bankrupt him into submission, they city would be realizing additional revenue that could be used to maintain parks.. for example like Curtis Park... Rhys02 2012-06-09T04:51:27Z Rhys02 comment-69207 2012-06-09T04:36:20Z 2012-06-09T04:36:20Z too bad she thought she had to go out of town for the bicycle... they sell them in Old Sac..could have kept the money local.. But in any event a really fresh idea...can't wait to try the goat cheese and cherry... Rhys02 2012-06-09T04:36:20Z Rhys02 comment-69174 2012-06-08T02:26:01Z 2012-06-08T02:26:01Z Good to see the candidate put forward by the fire union came in a distant third... I wonder if they (noting what happened in San Jose and San Diego) realized they milked 9/11 far longer than was ever honorable and maybe the electorate is beginning to understand just how far the fire and police unions are pushing Sacramento toward bankruptcy... But of course they don't notice the unkempt parks and lack of other city services because with their overtime pay they can afford to iive in upscale communities in El Dorado and Placer counties... Rhys02 2012-06-08T02:26:01Z Rhys02 comment-68792 2012-06-01T01:40:45Z 2012-06-01T01:40:45Z 1. Why does the city focus on retail subsidies over market rate residential projects? It is a lack of a solid customer base (residents) that impacts the health of the retail sector. 2. Why does it take on average 2 years for a business to get all of its permits from city staffers? Sacramento was recently rated the worst city in America to try and start a business. Would propose city staff have an absolute deadline to complete their review of any project under $5,000,000 in six months. It is unconscionable that Viriakas is still waiting for permits on the Triangle Project after what...five years? The city is just as much a loser as the developers as it is losing the increased tax revenue from the enhanced value of the properties...apparently so city staffers can collect fees. . Rhys02 2012-06-01T01:40:45Z Rhys02 comment-68297 2012-05-23T03:05:43Z 2012-05-23T03:05:43Z Isn't Ms. Williams discussing the crime rate among youth on Ms. Pannell's watch? Ms. Pannell has never understood all the youth programs and centers in the world aren't worth a hoot if the only kids using them wouldn't be engaged in crime in the first place. What Ms. Pannell (and for that matter Ms. Williams) will not address is where are the parents and why are they not being held accountable. Why are these kids allowed to skip school at will and more to the point why are schools passing kids along to the next grade when they clearly have not mastered the subject matters in the grades they are in? These are issues that address juvenile crime ...not more after school programs. Rhys02 2012-05-23T03:05:43Z Rhys02 comment-68296 2012-05-23T02:57:43Z 2012-05-23T02:57:43Z The reason Parks and Rec is in trouble is solely because the city is spending north of 80% of its budget on cops and fire. Until the city addresses this, no tax increase or other fix is going to solve the problem.... btw every city where more than 80% is spent on fire and cops is facing bankruptcy. Parks & Rec should know the cops and fire would find some way to spend any tax increase on their own salaries and to preserve their inefficiencies... Parks and Rec would never see a dime. Rhys02 2012-05-23T02:57:43Z