Publishing a monthly magazine isn’t optimal when information about the coronavirus changes hourly. So most of what you see this month in Inside Sacramento will ideally serve as a welcome and necessary contrast to media approaches that prize speed over accuracy and are intended to generate extreme emotions.
Here we love our neighborhoods because their scale is small. Our relationships tend to be more intimate than what a big city or rural community might offer.
I first learned about Haven for Hope, a unique homeless facility in San Antonio, Texas, from a close friend, Jill McDonnell. Jill is a professional photographer. Her passion is capturing extraordinary images of homeless people in Sacramento.
For people interested in building barrooms, restaurants, bowling alleys, fraternity houses, hotels, motels, auto dealerships, poolhalls, retail shops, hospitals, nursing homes, batting cages, dog kennels, yoga studios, brewpubs, churches, theaters and cardrooms, Sacramento civic authorities publish a chart about bicycles.
The chart proves how serious Sacramento is about bikes. It leaves nothing to chance. It explains exactly how much bike parking is required for each type of building and business.
People who stay in short-term rentals when they visit Sacramento don’t need to be next to the Capitol, convention center, Golden 1 Center or Old Sac. Short-term rental guests seem to prefer D Street.
Why D Street? It’s impossible to say how that humble byway became the boulevard of choice for the Airbnb crowd, but the numbers don’t lie.
Inside Publications filed a Public Records Act request with the city to examine short-term rental documents. The request produced insight on short-term rental permits—149 issued so far. And there it was: D Street had seen more licensed short-term rentals than any other—six.
