700-800 K Street Action Alert July 2010
SOCA Action Alert: This item 700-800 K Street will be heard at Council on Tuesday, July 13th at 6:00 PM. It is item 32 on the agenda but items 1-30 are consent items and should go very quickly. If you cannot attend see below for the link to the Council’s e-comment page so you can provide feedback electronically.
At the June 2010 SOCA Board meeting, City staff presented the ’selection committees’ recommendations for the the 700 and 800 K Street proposals. The Selection Committee was created by the city staff and was composed of staff and external experts. They recommended two project teams, D & S Development, Inc., and CFY Development, Inc. for the the 700 block and the group 700-800 K Street, LLC, led by developer David Taylor and Z Gallerie owner Joe Zeiden — for the 800 block. The Taylor proposal does suggest the Bel Vue will be retained and restored. The Bel-Vue is a listed city Landmark and was designed by George Sellon, the first State Architect and designer of the Cal-Western Insurance Building now known as the Citizen Hotel.
On the 700 block, D&S Development wants to reduce the size of 160-foot-deep retail spaces and use the 66-foot-deep leftover space to create alley-fronting housing and a garage. Both proposals include a mix of housing in varying price ranges as well as street fronting retail spaces.
The Sacramento Old City Association supports the recommendations of the selection committee and will remain actively engaged as these proposals move forward to ensure existing landmarks are not demolished in this process.
In early July, 2010 SOCA learned that the Council Ad-hoc committee is recommending the full Council REJECT the selection committee suggestions and award an Exclusive Right to Negotiate to Rubicon Partners. The Rubicon “Authenti-City” plan as the concept drawing depicts today would destroy many of the historic structures on the 700 & 800 blocks of K Street.
This item will be heard at the City Council Meeting on Tuesday, July 13th at 6:00 PM. This is item 32 on the Agenda. Items 1-30 are on consent and should go very quickly. Therefore this item could be heard as early as 6:15 to 6:30 PM. Members of the SOCA Board will be there and we also strongly encourage our members to come and support the selection committee recommendations for the following reasons:
If you cannot attend, you can use the e-comment feature on the city council’s website:
link to Council Agenda main page : http://sacramento.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=8
look for link to the e-comment; again it’s item 32 on the July 13th Agenda
Staff Report on 700 & 800 K Project here: July 13th Staff Report it’s large file and might take a little while to download/ view. You can also accesss it on the council agenda web page.
Thank you for your continued support.
