Sallen comment-80069 2013-03-05T05:12:08Z 2013-03-05T05:12:08Z You know I am! GREAT article Aaron! I'd take a Ruhstaller Captain Black over an Anchor Steam any day of the week! Sallen 2013-03-05T05:12:08Z Sallen comment-79998 2013-03-01T21:02:12Z 2013-03-01T21:02:12Z Another reason to love living in Oak Park! Patris' studio is always an excellent place to spend a Second Saturday within the historic Oak Park core! Sallen 2013-03-01T21:02:12Z Sallen comment-79707 2013-02-19T18:15:41Z 2013-02-19T18:15:41Z One of the coolest hats ever! Sallen 2013-02-19T18:15:41Z Sallen comment-74332 2012-10-06T18:02:40Z 2012-10-06T18:02:40Z It was a really great ceremony. It was great to see a formerly vacant lot filled with a beautiful new energy efficient home and a beautiful energetic family! Welcome to Oak Park Fabio family! Sallen 2012-10-06T18:02:40Z Sallen comment-74121 2012-10-02T06:00:50Z 2012-10-02T06:00:50Z What a great comment NewGal! You've really done your homework on what's happening in our neighborhood! Sallen 2012-10-02T06:00:50Z Sallen comment-74034 2012-09-28T17:47:01Z 2012-09-28T17:47:01Z This will be a great addition to a beautiful park! This will bring more positive users to the park and really help create a more inviting atmosphere at McClatchy. I can't wait to play some disc! Sallen 2012-09-28T17:47:01Z Sallen comment-71873 2012-08-02T23:19:33Z 2012-08-02T23:19:33Z Awesome! I'll have to miss the first class on August 4th, but hopefully I can join in on the remaining classes through August 25th! It's amazing to see just how far McClatchy Park has come along! Thanks to the instructor for donating her time! Just another reason to love living in Oak Park! Sallen 2012-08-02T23:19:33Z Sallen comment-71281 2012-07-23T16:55:29Z 2012-07-23T16:55:29Z Great list! Thanks for sharing! Sallen 2012-07-23T16:55:29Z Sallen comment-70831 2012-07-12T19:07:28Z 2012-07-12T19:07:28Z Man, This sport sure has changed quite a bit from when I used to skim with my bus at Cameron Park Lake on our homemade plywood boards! Sallen 2012-07-12T19:07:28Z Sallen comment-69729 2012-06-19T18:56:45Z 2012-06-19T18:56:45Z Bring us more art like this! Great addition to the River District! Sallen 2012-06-19T18:56:45Z Sallen comment-67897 2012-05-15T20:37:50Z 2012-05-15T20:37:50Z GREAT NEWS! Sallen 2012-05-15T20:37:50Z Sallen comment-67885 2012-05-15T18:15:05Z 2012-05-15T18:15:05Z What a great day it was! I'll be looking forward to this for years to come! It looks like the secret is getting out about Oak Park! Sallen 2012-05-15T18:15:05Z Sallen comment-67009 2012-04-26T16:54:05Z 2012-04-26T16:54:05Z People would rather have businesses and buildings that conform to the general plan. Are you seriously posing such a ridiculous question? Sallen 2012-04-26T16:54:05Z Sallen comment-66361 2012-04-12T03:35:17Z 2012-04-12T03:35:17Z Can't wait for another great season at the Oak Park Farmer's Market! Really looking forward to "pigging out" on the first day! Sallen 2012-04-12T03:35:17Z Sallen comment-64085 2012-02-23T21:23:50Z 2012-02-23T21:23:50Z yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum... CAN'T WAIT! Sallen 2012-02-23T21:23:50Z Sallen comment-63062 2012-02-01T17:24:37Z 2012-02-01T17:24:37Z Had the Shrimp Po'boy. LOVED IT! I can't believe they bake their own bread. Nailed it! Sallen 2012-02-01T17:24:37Z Sallen comment-62704 2012-01-24T20:20:40Z 2012-01-24T20:20:40Z Looking forward to trying this out at Old Soul on Broadway in Oak Park! The beer line-up constantly changes there, so I'm looking forward to a new great IPA! Hope it's on tap for our next "post Oak Park Neighborhood Association gathering" Feb 3rd! Sallen 2012-01-24T20:20:40Z Sallen comment-61838 2012-01-03T18:40:35Z 2012-01-03T18:40:35Z I bet the poll would get many more votes if it asked "The City Council was at its WORST in 2011..." Here's to new Council members in 2012! Sallen 2012-01-03T18:40:35Z Sallen comment-61523 2011-12-20T19:32:09Z 2011-12-20T19:32:09Z Looking forward to frequenting this place! It's right next to my office at Better Homes and Gardens Realty in Midtown. The improvements look amazing and they've really opened up the interior so it's not as closed in as Celestine's was. Happy about the beer selection! Sallen 2011-12-20T19:32:09Z Sallen comment-60192 2011-11-15T18:58:02Z 2011-11-15T18:58:02Z I love that LANDSCAPE Architects won the design competition that was hosted by AIA (American Institute of Architects)! It would have been interesting to see what could have been proposed if ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects) would have hosted the competition and received more input from landscape architects and planners. This is truly a project that is much more suited to landscape architects than structural architects. Sallen 2011-11-15T18:58:02Z Sallen comment-57924 2011-09-27T16:55:46Z 2011-09-27T16:55:46Z This is such a great and simple idea! In Oak Park, we don't have a library for kids anymore and getting one opened is not in the cards. This might be a good way for our community to take matters into our own hands. Sallen 2011-09-27T16:55:46Z Sallen comment-55865 2011-08-25T05:04:01Z 2011-08-25T05:04:01Z @LandParkRes, there are over 1000 voters in North Oak Park (the neighborhood formerly known as "Med Center," and just plain old "Oak Park" before that). Mr. McCarty is lucky that he was not able to steal this neighborhood as well or he would have had 1,000 more votes against him next election. Also, money isn't everything. You must recognize the human element of this situation. The hospital was a huge asset for our community. Our Councilman has been working closely with UCD staff to create educational partnerships with Sacramento High to prepare our youth for good jobs in a high-tech future. The Elmhurst neighborhood only complained of cars parking on their streets. And if, "Money will not be affected. There are less than 500 voters in med center. McCarty usually receives 70-80% of the vote in his council district. 500 voters will not change his reelection."... Then why change it at all? Sallen 2011-08-25T05:04:01Z Sallen comment-55787 2011-08-24T08:48:04Z 2011-08-24T08:48:04Z I'll give you the update of how the meeting ended: The City Council failed the people of Sacramento yet again. The outpouring of public comments and concerns fell on deaf ears and a "compromise" was made by Mr. McCarty and his other 5 cohorts to steal the UCD Med Center from District 5, where it has always been and claim it as a District 6 trophy. We at the OPNA were not too surprised by this. We were told that a deal had been struck before the meeting where McCarty would "give" us North Oak Park and Sac High back, but keep the Med Center. Kinda like someone stealing your car but giving you your stereo back. This was just another example of Sacramento's backdoor politics and complete lack of transparency within the council and throughout the entire redistricting process. Someone should take a serious look into possible Brown Act violations here. Sallen 2011-08-24T08:48:04Z Sallen comment-55321 2011-08-17T20:24:52Z 2011-08-17T20:24:52Z I would like to see your statistics that Oak Park has higher violent crime rates than the rest of the City. Sallen 2011-08-17T20:24:52Z Sallen comment-54366 2011-08-02T22:23:49Z 2011-08-02T22:23:49Z Great article! I love this farmers market! Katy at Upper Crust is always a pleasure to talk to. Dave is also a great guy and provides "Luke Pops" as well (Sugar free pops inspired by his diabetic nephew). I also love the intimate feel of this market and the great music that is always there. McClatchy Park is really nice this time of year and provides us shoppers with much appreciated shade! Another great sign that Oak Park is a neighborhood on the move! Sallen 2011-08-02T22:23:49Z Sallen comment-53224 2011-07-12T17:40:42Z 2011-07-12T17:40:42Z I LOVE SHOKI! Sallen 2011-07-12T17:40:42Z Sallen comment-53221 2011-07-12T17:35:34Z 2011-07-12T17:35:34Z I've never met a friendlier and more knowledgable staff anywhere else in Sacramento. Rob really knows what he's doing over there! Sallen 2011-07-12T17:35:34Z Sallen comment-52705 2011-06-28T17:06:16Z 2011-06-28T17:06:16Z It's sad because I live next to McClatchy Park and these ramps have already collected some graffiti. My son was hanging out there with his friend and they saw kids tagging it in broad daylight. I love seeing the riders on these ramps and I really love the murals that are already painted on them. I hope both last. Sallen 2011-06-28T17:06:16Z Sallen comment-52704 2011-06-28T16:58:21Z 2011-06-28T16:58:21Z That abandoned house in Oak Park is directly across the street from me. I've been interested in buying it and rehabing it for years, but the owners won't sell and they just let it sit and continue to collect fines and notices from the city. It's got about a foot of pigeon poo in there and it'll eventually disintegrate into the ground. Sad. Sallen 2011-06-28T16:58:21Z Sallen comment-52325 2011-06-17T17:54:57Z 2011-06-17T17:54:57Z Ha! When was the last time you were in McClatchy Park? I live next door to McClatchy and it is a great park! I hang out there with my wife and son to throw frisbee all summer long, day and night and have never had a problem. Sure, there are a few old timers hanging out, playing dominoes and drinking a few brews every now and then, but they don't bother anybody. This is going to be a great event, coupled with the Oak Park Farmer's market on Saturday. Bring the kids out, meet your neighbors and be a part of the McClatchy success story! Sallen 2011-06-17T17:54:57Z Sallen comment-48388 2011-03-31T00:28:36Z 2011-03-31T00:28:36Z Terre, this project site is ABSOLUTELY located within the plan area. Please see page 27 (of the document, not the .pdf) of the Broadway/Stockton Urban Design Plan document for reference: http://www.cityofsacramento.org/dsd/forms/design-guidelines/documents/broadway-and-stockton-blvd-design-guidelines.pdf You will notice that the study address the intersection of Stockton and 2nd avenue in its entirety and in fact extends north all the way to Y Street. I would say that reducing the plan's overlay is disregarding its intent. Sallen 2011-03-31T00:28:36Z Sallen comment-48271 2011-03-30T17:14:41Z 2011-03-30T17:14:41Z "Boom-box cars and gunfire?" First off, you're really prejudging our neighborhood and the people in it. Loud cars are everywhere and I fail to see how a 24-hour drive-thru is better than this problem, especially in the middle of the night. You only prove my point here. This project would increase such nuisances at all hours, especially for adjacent residences. “I have driven through it, and my wife works at UCD Med. That is all we need to know. We would not live there if they paid us to do so.” Again, you’re speaking about something you know nothing about. You are basing your opinions on hearsay and your own insecurities/prejudices. Oak Park is a historic neighborhood with a genuine past and a bright future and great neighbors who care deeply about, and are deeply connected with their community. There is much more to Oak Park than Stockton Blvd. I’m curious; what paradise do you live in? Where is this magical 24-hour fast food restaurant that is built right next door to your house that you love so much and that contributes so greatly to the success of your community? "We are the largest, most highly organized neighborhood in the entire Sacramento Region." And it shows...not in a good way either. I’m curious how this shows in a bad way? Or are you just basing your prejudice on hearsay and a general lack of knowledge again? “Wow, and given the track record of the City and SHRA, this is supposed to encourage you?” No, the vast input of community members, planning professionals and stakeholders (including the UC Davis Med Center, adjacent neighborhood associations, PACS, RACS and the Oak Park Business Association) is encouraging to me. Race Studio (www.racestudio.com), a national, award winning planning and urban design firm with an established track record of producing high-quality urban design plans produced the document and facilitated the numerous community design workshops, not SHRA; they merely provided the funding. The track record of the City’s and SHRA’s ability to carry out these community plans is the issue here. We spend countless thousands of dollars on these plans, with an opportunity for as much input from as many groups and interests as possible, then totally disregard them and build whatever anyone with a pocketful of cash wants. And I’ll take your bet. By 2016, the growth of the hospitals and related clinics in the district will create enough demand for a medical-serving business there, IF the City decides to follow their own planning documents and rules. Sallen 2011-03-30T17:14:41Z Sallen comment-48236 2011-03-29T17:06:43Z 2011-03-29T17:06:43Z "Oh woes me! I'm just a poor, lo-life Oak Park resident. I should be lucky enough to have any old developer come in and keep the image of my neighborhood looking like crap. I feel soooo lucky to have a 24-hour squawking drive-thru speaker taking orders next to my house at 3 a.m. That grease smell in the morning is soooo nice to wake up to!" Are you kidding me!? I don't know if you've read a news paper in the last 10 years, but Oak Park is not a group of "castaways" that the rest of the city can forget about or point to as an example of a downtrodden people who should be happy with whatever scraps of development are thrown our way. We are the largest, most highly organized neighborhood in the entire Sacramento Region. I can’t believe that you would even write such garbage! If I were going to build a 24-hour drive through next door to your house would you still be on your high-horse about free commerce and jobs for teenyboppers? I am a proponent of infill development in Oak Park and throughout Sacramento. Unfortunately Curmudgeon, you must not understand what good infill development is. Good infill isn’t the idea of taking whatever someone proposes for a site, even if it doesn’t fit the context, and building it just to get an empty lot off of our hands. Good infill development is done thoughtfully and fits within the existing conditions and context of the site and neighborhood. Good infill development also complies with local planning documents and master plans that have previously been produced by the community. This project does neither. The Stockton Broadway Urban Design Plan is a document that was put together by the City and SHRA at a cost of nearly $100k. It involved many workshops and input from the community and various stakeholders to plan Stockton and Broadway as a whole and discusses this site specifically. This area is meant to be part of the “Medical Center District” and is intended to promote a hospital campus-like feeling along Stockton north of Broadway. The plan calls for larger massing of buildings (not one story, squat buildings with a floor area ratio of only about 25%), encourages mixed-use development that is hospital serving, and specifically calls out discouraged uses within this district: fast food and anything with a drive-thru. This doesn’t fit the plan for the district and it doesn’t fit the context of the adjacent residential uses. If we’re not going to follow our own plans, then we just spent $100k to make the neighborhood feel warm and fuzzy inside and nothing else. I know you’re just keeping up with appearances; that picture of you as Oscar the Grouch fits well with the trash that’s coming out of your mouth, but believe me there IS such a thing as bad development and Oak Park has already had its’ fair share. Sallen 2011-03-29T17:06:43Z Sallen comment-45899 2011-02-17T20:43:39Z 2011-02-17T20:43:39Z I LOVE the Old Sugar Mill! My friends are always so suprised that something like that exists just minutes from Sacramento when I take them there! There are plans (if the economy ever ramps back up) to construct a bed and breakfast, shops, a boat dock on the river and other amenities on the site. I believe there are also plans to open a Beer and Art wing in one of the vacant portions of the building. Bogle winery is also just a quick jaunt from there. I have to give a plug for Todd Taylor. While all of the wineries in the OSM are pretty good, some more than others, Todd Taylor's wines are a definite stand out. A must-try for any wine lover in Sacramento! Sallen 2011-02-17T20:43:39Z Sallen comment-45896 2011-02-17T20:31:10Z 2011-02-17T20:31:10Z I believe the new law will require chickens to be kept 30 ft from neighboring RESIDENCES, not lots, right? This would mean that if you owned one of the standard city lots (140'-150' deep?) and you and your neighbors had your homes on the front 1/3rd of your lot (typical) then that would leave almost the entire back half of your lot available for chicken keeping. Even if your lot was 40x80 you'd still have at least the back 10' of your lot open for chickens. Sallen 2011-02-17T20:31:10Z Sallen comment-43119 2011-01-04T23:24:57Z 2011-01-04T23:24:57Z Yay! More good press about Oak Park! Hopefully people will head on down and check this out and see how our edgy little corner of town is coming along! I'm definitely seeing this! Sallen 2011-01-04T23:24:57Z Sallen comment-42245 2010-12-14T18:59:17Z 2010-12-14T18:59:17Z Sad that I couldn't make it to this meeting! I hope there will be other chances for community input! Sallen 2010-12-14T18:59:17Z Sallen comment-40041 2010-11-03T23:43:55Z 2010-11-03T23:43:55Z Parrhesiac, you live in Natomas. Your taste levels are highly questionable. Stay in your idealistic land of little stucco boxes, where everyone can drink Starbucks coffee, shop at Wal-Mart, be forced to drive to get anywhere and throw bucket-loads of money at international hegemonies all you want. It seems that you are out of touch with what Sacramento (the real Sacramento, not your suburban sprawl version) has to offer. I’m not sure what the owners of Old Soul did to you, but it’s obvious that you hold a very personal grudge against them. To think that we should listen to your opinion of Old Soul’s coffee based on your tastes is ludicrous. You complain about greased palms and business deals, yet you live in a “neighborhood” (If one could call it that) that was built by some of the largest campaign contributors and cut-throat land cartels in the Sacramento region. I guess Starbucks became an international powerhouse without ever supporting any candidates or legislation along the way? I was there when the petitions were signed to get Old Soul in the Airport. I was at the rallies and saw the support of the community. This was not done by bribes; this was done because the people wanted the airport to showcase a business that they believed in and that they felt represented the local flavor of Sacramento and because they stood up and made their voices heard. I’d also rather see Java City get a spot over Peet’s or Starbucks any day. I think Starbucks sucks and is WAY overpriced. Should we kick them out of the Airport based on my opinion? (No residents of Notomas were injured while writing this reply) Sallen 2010-11-03T23:43:55Z Sallen comment-40018 2010-11-03T22:43:10Z 2010-11-03T22:43:10Z Hopefully Oak Park can have a year-round farmer's market soon. It's only been a few weeks since the end of the season and I already miss my Saturday morning encounters with neighbors at the market! Sallen 2010-11-03T22:43:10Z Sallen comment-33277 2010-07-21T22:03:10Z 2010-07-21T22:03:10Z Where else was John Gurnee a chef in Sacramento? I know I worked with him at some point in my illustrious restaurant career... Sammy Chu's/Icon/R-15?, 33rd st Bistro...? I'm really looking forward to trying this place out! Sallen 2010-07-21T22:03:10Z