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May 7, 2008 3:36 pm US/Pacific
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New Guidelines For Sacramento's Future Renovations
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ―
The real estate market may be stuck in a rut, but Sacramento planners are actively putting together a detailed plan for future development that purposes bringing back carts to the blighted K Street Mall.
Take a look at Downtown Sacramento from the CBS13 tower camera and you can see there's still a lot of room for more buildings. Now Sacramento city planners are creating new rules for whenever the next wave of development hits.
"The guidelines call for creating more space between buildings that go up, and also three separate height zones in Sacramento with unlimited height requirements in the central business development," explains Bill Crouch.
Bill Crouch is the City's Urban Design Manager; he's trying to create a skyline that people here can be proud of.
The rules would create a kind of a pyramid effect for the skyline with 65 foot limits on the edge of downtown and 300 foot limits approaching the business district.
The city closed K Street back in the 1960's hoping a vibrant pedestrian promenade would emerge, which never happened.
"It really killed the life in the street and I think what we're trying to do is bring traffic back," says Crouch.
But with K Street's blight, and the recent high profile towers and aura projects scrapped, will these guidelines really make a difference?
"I think what we're trying to do is to get ready for when this market does turn, so we don't have to stand around scratching our head, and we're ready to move with the market," concludes Crouch.
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