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Front Street Animal Shelter
Increased euthanasia rates, animals released without spaying/neutering, healthy cats turned away, 1,000-plus service calls awaiting a response.
Articles
- Stand And Deliver*
- Missing In Action
- What’s It Going To Take
- Under Her Watch
- Disturbing Allegations
- Sac Bee Article – She ran the LA animal Shelters. Why couldn’t she fix the problems?
- Sac Bee Article – LA found she bullied Black staff. Now she manages Sacramento’s animal shelter
- Where is Animal Control?
- Too Little, Too Late
- It’s The Law
- Left Behind
- No Excuse
- Advisory Void
- Where’s the Urgency
- Fixing Front Street
- Fight for Ferals
- Where is Spay and Neuter
- Calls for Help
- On Deaf Ears
- Worse Than Imagined
- Tell It to Waffles
- No More Bellas
- Stop the Breeding
* Newest article
Empty Old Sac Waterfront Site
Rio City Cafe closed after landlord—the city—failed to maintain outdoor dining deck. City loses $250,000 annual rent from mothballed restaurant. Eighty jobs lost.
Southside Pool Closure
Public pool serves low income and minority residents. Closed by city for repairs in 2022. As Assembly member, Mayor Kevin McCarty secured $500,000 to offset repairs. Still closed.
Update
Sacramento’s Southside Park Pool has reopened for summer 2025 after being closed for about three years for major repairs and renovations. The city completed extensive work to replace aging infrastructure, and with funding secured in part through then-Assemblymember (now Mayor) Kevin McCarty, the pool welcomed swimmers again in June 2025, restoring the only city-run pool in downtown Sacramento for families and the community to enjoy.
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Pedestrian Deaths
More than 250 people killed by vehicles since 2017, when city adopted “Vision Zero” to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries on city streets by 2027.
Articles
- Road Warrior*
- Sacramento City Express article – City advances Vision Zero plans for two high-injury corridors
- SacBee article – Sacramento pushes a more urgent fix for dangerous road after six deaths
- Vision Zero Transportation
- SacBee article – Crash Kills Cyclist Outside Sacramento Homeless Shelter
- Vision Zero Update Summer 2023
- Great Idea, But
* Newest article
American River Levee
Up to 700 trees and miles of habitat face destruction on American River Army Corps project, threatening wildlife and recreation. Residents want less disruptive approach to flood control.
Articles
- PProtection Without Devastation*
- Victory Pause
- Animal Oust
- ‘Not Giving Up’
- Spot Fix It
- American River Trees
- Sac Bee Article – Hundreds protest razing trees on Sacramento’s American River. ‘This affects all’
- Sac Bee Article – Levee project could remove hundreds of trees along the American River, Sacramento group warns
- Sac Bee Article – Board approves plan to raze 600 trees on American River Parkway in Sacramento
- ABC 10 Article – Concerns grow over tree clearing along American River for flood infrastructure plan
- KCRA Article – Residents concerned flood prevention project along American River Parkway could threaten wildlife
- CBS News Article – Trees along American River are on the chopping block for flood control
- Protection Not Devastation
- Fight or Flight
* Newest article
Tiny Homes for Unhoused
City, county and state officials acquired 100 tiny houses for homeless people in 2022, but the dwellings sit empty due to red tape and location disputes.
Update
Under Mayor Kevin McCarty’s leadership, Sacramento has marked a significant milestone in its homelessness response with the completion of the expansion of the Roseville Road shelter campus, adding roughly 135 tiny homes — including a new cluster of 100 units — to provide safe, interim housing for people experiencing homelessness. These units, fully equipped with electricity, heating and air conditioning and supported by on-site services in partnership with local providers, represent an effort to offer dignified, cost-effective alternatives to traditional shelters and encampments
Bicycle Bridge over I-5
City ordered $12 million bike bridge at I-5 and Riverside demolished because of substandard concrete and rebar. City won’t explain why quality control procedures didn’t work.
Update
The Pocket Bicycle Bridge has finally opened after a long delay caused by construction and engineering issues that kept the newly built bridge closed from the start. With those problems resolved, the long-anticipated crossing now provides a safe, dedicated connection for cyclists and pedestrians, linking the Pocket area to the Sacramento River Parkway and completing a project years in the making.
Articles
* Newest article
Sac River Levee Public Access
Levee parkway and bike trail promised to Pocket-Greenhaven community in 1975, still not completed. City fearful of lawsuits by handful of anti-river access residents.
