Karen S
Karen S's projects
Recent Activity
Commented on 440 Arden Way
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Meanwhile, Marisol Village just had their first shooting, but it is trying to be hushed up. There is NO denying that large public housing projects have a high rate of crime.
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Dave C
August O!, I suspect D2 Council member's precipitous decline was highly engineered by aligned power brokers sympathetic to this project. Though the Council Member was certainly vulnerable to those attacks, it does not take a genius to trace them back to those who seek power and wealth above all else. You probably think your perspective is from a place of social equity which would be commendable if it were true. You, like most of the YIMBY movement, have been highly manipulated by corporate forces you do not understand. They are a class unto themselves completely, ensconced in a cocoon of corporate social welfare. The people who work for those corporations probably wonder why the economic/class divide is ever worsening when they're company is doing so much good in the world (sarcasm).
August O!, I suspect D2 Council member's precipitous decline was highly engineered by aligned power brokers sympathetic to this project. Though the Council Member was certainly vulnerable to those attacks, it does not take a genius to trace them back to those who seek power and wealth above all else. You probably think your perspective is from a place of social equity which would be commendable if it were true. You, like most of the YIMBY movement, have been highly manipulated by corporate forces you do not understand. They are a class unto themselves completely, ensconced in a cocoon of corporate social welfare. The people who work for those corporations probably wonder why the economic/class divide is ever worsening when they're company is doing so much good in the world (sarcasm).
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Stuart Gow
With the RT parking lot being busy again after covid how does plan on preventing its tenants and guests from using it illegally? Also how do you plan to maintain an uncongested and unrestricted access to the parking lot for the current RT ridership? This station is extremely important to many workers in north sac who use RT for their commute.
With the RT parking lot being busy again after covid how does plan on preventing its tenants and guests from using it illegally? Also how do you plan to maintain an uncongested and unrestricted access to the parking lot for the current RT ridership? This station is extremely important to many workers in north sac who use RT for their commute.
Supported a comment by John f on
440 Arden Way
2 months, 2 weeks ago
John f
We live behind the project and we are concerned about the night time lighting directed towards our house. What does your lighting look like at night.
We live behind the project and we are concerned about the night time lighting directed towards our house. What does your lighting look like at night.
Commented on 440 Arden Way
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Does anyone know the circumstances of the deceased man found a few days ago in front of this address? Also, I see the City still must steam clean the urine from the entrance to the clubhouse on a weekly basis. Gee, what a place to stuff poor families into. Does Bridge have no conscience?
Supported a comment by K.B. Redman on
440 Arden Way
2 months, 3 weeks ago
K.B. Redman
Where is the information about the traffic study that you said you would publish on this page "shortly" - 6 weeks ago?
Where is the information about the traffic study that you said you would publish on this page "shortly" - 6 weeks ago?
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Dave C
Tone deaf is putting it mildly.
Tone deaf is putting it mildly.
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Dave C
I think your response to Karen above is misleading. My understanding is 25% of those 124 units will be reserved for very low to no income and that section 8 vouchers have already been established for those households. Your response above makes it seem like all residents will be at least at 30% of Area Median Income when in fact 37 of those 124 units will be reserved for very low to no income households using Section 8 vouchers. Thanks Bridge Housing for bringing SRO style hotel living to this community. It seems like a forced urbanization of a very suburban area. I do have compassion for those households that will benefit. In fact I think all the public subsidies that will be benefiting Bridge Housing should instead be used to subsidize an ownership stake for the future residents instead of Bridge Housing maintaining an ownership stake in perpetuity. For what its worth, I do not think this project will have a negative impact on area property values. I do think this is a social engineering experiment designed to benefit the developers over the housing recipients and that the fiscal costs of this experiment are completely out of wack with reality. It looks like your closing in on one million dollars per unit not including all the public subsidies that will benefit Bridge Housing. We need fewer landlords and more individual ownership to fix a gerrymandered economy that has artificially restricted housing supply.
I think your response to Karen above is misleading. My understanding is 25% of those 124 units will be reserved for very low to no income and that section 8 vouchers have already been established for those households. Your response above makes it seem like all residents will be at least at 30% of Area Median Income when in fact 37 of those 124 units will be reserved for very low to no income households using Section 8 vouchers. Thanks Bridge Housing for bringing SRO style hotel living to this community. It seems like a forced urbanization of a very suburban area. I do have compassion for those households that will benefit. In fact I think all the public subsidies that will be benefiting Bridge Housing should instead be used to subsidize an ownership stake for the future residents instead of Bridge Housing maintaining an ownership stake in perpetuity. For what its worth, I do not think this project will have a negative impact on area property values. I do think this is a social engineering experiment designed to benefit the developers over the housing recipients and that the fiscal costs of this experiment are completely out of wack with reality. It looks like your closing in on one million dollars per unit not including all the public subsidies that will benefit Bridge Housing. We need fewer landlords and more individual ownership to fix a gerrymandered economy that has artificially restricted housing supply.
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
3 months ago
Stuart Gow
This tiny courtyard is for 500 or 600 people? Bridge you aren’t fooling anyone
This tiny courtyard is for 500 or 600 people? Bridge you aren’t fooling anyone
Supported a comment by tricia talle on
440 Arden Way
3 months ago
tricia talle
I looked at your illustrations on this website and there is way too much cement! Cement raises the temperature and wastes water through water run off. Where is the green space you describe?
Why not have community garden space, where residents can grow their own food?
Also this design is not Art Deco, nor does it blend in to the neighborhood. I have seen better looking prisons.
How about some innovative architecture that pulls pollution from air( it exists) a green roof top for fruit trees. No cement or black top, there are great alternatives both these. Bring something good to the neighborhood instead something that be trash in a decade.
I looked at your illustrations on this website and there is way too much cement! Cement raises the temperature and wastes water through water run off. Where is the green space you describe?
Why not have community garden space, where residents can grow their own food?
Also this design is not Art Deco, nor does it blend in to the neighborhood. I have seen better looking prisons.
How about some innovative architecture that pulls pollution from air( it exists) a green roof top for fruit trees. No cement or black top, there are great alternatives both these. Bring something good to the neighborhood instead something that be trash in a decade.
Supported a comment by Kristen Perry on
440 Arden Way
3 months ago
Kristen Perry
You do realize, Bridge housing that most of the people who live in north Sacramento are low income right? We are not San Francisco and we are not east sac, land park, midtown etc. so please stop the build affordable housing l! When most of the houses here are actually still affordable- a lot less than what each unit will cost taxpayers and for our welcome new peeps- without the million dollar price tag per unit in a crappy looking building you have come up with. I wish you could just buy the families and people a house up here- would be much more sensible:
You do realize, Bridge housing that most of the people who live in north Sacramento are low income right? We are not San Francisco and we are not east sac, land park, midtown etc. so please stop the build affordable housing l! When most of the houses here are actually still affordable- a lot less than what each unit will cost taxpayers and for our welcome new peeps- without the million dollar price tag per unit in a crappy looking building you have come up with. I wish you could just buy the families and people a house up here- would be much more sensible:
Supported a comment by John f on
440 Arden Way
3 months ago
John f
The park closes at sunset. How will that issue be handled by the building security? The park is like their backyard, the only place for the teenagers to get out of their apartment.
The park closes at sunset. How will that issue be handled by the building security? The park is like their backyard, the only place for the teenagers to get out of their apartment.
Supported a comment by Kristen Perry on
440 Arden Way
3 months ago
Kristen Perry
Bridge is taking a lot of our city’s (peoples) money from funding that should be used otherwise.
Bridge is taking a lot of our city’s (peoples) money from funding that should be used otherwise.
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
3 months ago
Stuart Gow
The new design has strong vertical lines and high up heavy horizontal details which enhance the verticality of the building. This goes exactly against community feedback you have received. The design should do the opposite and have strong horizontals that lower the visual weight of the facade. if Bridge moves forward with the new designs the critical reception will be that it is tone deaf.
The new design has strong vertical lines and high up heavy horizontal details which enhance the verticality of the building. This goes exactly against community feedback you have received. The design should do the opposite and have strong horizontals that lower the visual weight of the facade. if Bridge moves forward with the new designs the critical reception will be that it is tone deaf.
Supported a comment by J Heller on
440 Arden Way
3 months, 1 week ago
J Heller
I would like the child care center to be placed in the low income housing that you are building, run by your organization. I do not want a for profit company that is headquartered in the city of Citrus Heights to place a daycare in the Woodlake community center.
I would like the child care center to be placed in the low income housing that you are building, run by your organization. I do not want a for profit company that is headquartered in the city of Citrus Heights to place a daycare in the Woodlake community center.
Supported a comment by Miriam Pulsipher on
440 Arden Way
3 months, 1 week ago
Miriam Pulsipher
Build more housing so people don't have to leave their neighborhood. Preserving and restoring old buildings. Development that matches character of the neighborhood. Invest in schools.
Build more housing so people don't have to leave their neighborhood. Preserving and restoring old buildings. Development that matches character of the neighborhood. Invest in schools.
Supported a comment by Pat SH on
440 Arden Way
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Pat SH
Woodlake was established over 100 years ago with an old English architecture. To make the project more better and more attractive as you agreed with Council, the architects need to revise the plan to fit in the neighborhood old English style.
Woodlake was established over 100 years ago with an old English architecture. To make the project more better and more attractive as you agreed with Council, the architects need to revise the plan to fit in the neighborhood old English style.
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Dave C
I just love how BRIDGE Housing Corporation hides behind these nameless faceless canned corporate responses to the communities concerns. Your endless appetite to absorb public resources will only make homelessness and housing affordability worse in the long run. Corporations like yours, especially developers, have gamed the system for so long you don't even know you are doing it. The public is getting sick of your economic gerrymandering to benefit the few over the needs of the many.
I just love how BRIDGE Housing Corporation hides behind these nameless faceless canned corporate responses to the communities concerns. Your endless appetite to absorb public resources will only make homelessness and housing affordability worse in the long run. Corporations like yours, especially developers, have gamed the system for so long you don't even know you are doing it. The public is getting sick of your economic gerrymandering to benefit the few over the needs of the many.
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Dave C
Since you won the bid for this project it seems like your projected cost have more than doubled. Far exceeding inflation. You appear to be closing in on costs in excess of a million dollars per unit when factoring in all the public resources that will be extracted from this community for your private venture. Can you publish cost projections that will either refute or confirm this? Are any public or government regulators monitoring your escalating cost projections? If so, who?
Since you won the bid for this project it seems like your projected cost have more than doubled. Far exceeding inflation. You appear to be closing in on costs in excess of a million dollars per unit when factoring in all the public resources that will be extracted from this community for your private venture. Can you publish cost projections that will either refute or confirm this? Are any public or government regulators monitoring your escalating cost projections? If so, who?
Supported a comment by Jane Macaulay on
440 Arden Way
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Jane Macaulay
Oh please -
Oh please -
Commented on 440 Arden Way
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Did you see the article in today’s Bee highlighting the fact that Twin Rivers is the lowest ranked school district in the entire area? Shoving so many families into this poor district is not only immoral and unethical but contrary to Federal housing policy that specifically prohibits this. This is a civil rights case, clearly. You should look for your density goals to be satisfied in the area, 30 acres, in Folsom, where the schools are great and transit is near. But the rich white people of Folsom would probably not hear of it. This makes you complicit in their racism. You should be ashamed of yourselves!
Supported a comment by John f on
440 Arden Way
3 months, 2 weeks ago
John f
Construction hasn’t even started and the only sidewalk is already blocked by the “temporary “ fence which looks crappy.
Construction hasn’t even started and the only sidewalk is already blocked by the “temporary “ fence which looks crappy.
Supported a comment by Kristen Perry on
440 Arden Way
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Kristen Perry
I’m not surprised you are Bridge since each unit will cost close to a million dollars of tax payer money to build and in the end- You will profit- and it still looks bad with your Feb 6 new architecture plan- looks like a prison sadly- so disappointing.
I’m not surprised you are Bridge since each unit will cost close to a million dollars of tax payer money to build and in the end- You will profit- and it still looks bad with your Feb 6 new architecture plan- looks like a prison sadly- so disappointing.
Supported a comment by Kristen Perry on
440 Arden Way
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Kristen Perry
I also want to reiterate that north Sacramento is overall low income and vulnerable- and worse- neglected and thrown away by the city. This project so far is daunting ugly- imprisoning- I absolutely welcome new neighbors but want us to have a nice place to live- together- this so far With the cost at million $ a unit this should be amazing for us and the planned outcome is hellish. Where is the LEED building and the rooftop waterwise garden? Where is the retail space at the floor level? Solar? Where is the vision for us? Not with 440 Arden so far- there gonna have to compete with Arden Way apts (vista Del chandos) just down the street- disaster above the gas station. So very disappointed in you.
I also want to reiterate that north Sacramento is overall low income and vulnerable- and worse- neglected and thrown away by the city. This project so far is daunting ugly- imprisoning- I absolutely welcome new neighbors but want us to have a nice place to live- together- this so far With the cost at million $ a unit this should be amazing for us and the planned outcome is hellish. Where is the LEED building and the rooftop waterwise garden? Where is the retail space at the floor level? Solar? Where is the vision for us? Not with 440 Arden so far- there gonna have to compete with Arden Way apts (vista Del chandos) just down the street- disaster above the gas station. So very disappointed in you.
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Dave C
All three of those plans have one thing in common that your plan does not. They have limited the height and density to common sense levels. They have embraced architectural aesthetics that you just can't match because your maximalist ethos and brutal architecture. Read the room, your design doesn't fit in this location culturally, socially, or aesthetically. I guess it pencils out for you though.
All three of those plans have one thing in common that your plan does not. They have limited the height and density to common sense levels. They have embraced architectural aesthetics that you just can't match because your maximalist ethos and brutal architecture. Read the room, your design doesn't fit in this location culturally, socially, or aesthetically. I guess it pencils out for you though.
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Dave C
Here is a plan for 440 Arden way that you should've been aware of for a Type IV LEED Gold development on this same plot of land:
https://www.dcrp2020.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Armory-Gardens_narrative_final.pdf
Looks like a design to maximize benefit to the community and future residents. Your plans fall far short of these by all metrics except for maximizing the extraction of value from the existing community, the State, and local government.
Or perhaps Jane was referring to this design coincident with yours but for only a 3 story building:
https://www.dcrp2020.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Armory-Gardens_narrative_final.pdf
or Maybe Jane was talking about this design/study/plan from 2007:
https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/CDD/Planning/Long-Range/Transit-Oriented-Development/Northeast-Line-Implementation-Plan/Northeast-Line-Light-Rail-Stations-Plan.pdf?la=en
I would encourage you to look at page 75 of that .pdf to see what was part of this now abandoned expensive study/development plan for this location.
Here is a plan for 440 Arden way that you should've been aware of for a Type IV LEED Gold development on this same plot of land:
https://www.dcrp2020.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Armory-Gardens_narrative_final.pdf
Looks like a design to maximize benefit to the community and future residents. Your plans fall far short of these by all metrics except for maximizing the extraction of value from the existing community, the State, and local government.
Or perhaps Jane was referring to this design coincident with yours but for only a 3 story building:
https://www.dcrp2020.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Armory-Gardens_narrative_final.pdf
or Maybe Jane was talking about this design/study/plan from 2007:
https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/CDD/Planning/Long-Range/Transit-Oriented-Development/Northeast-Line-Implementation-Plan/Northeast-Line-Light-Rail-Stations-Plan.pdf?la=en
I would encourage you to look at page 75 of that .pdf to see what was part of this now abandoned expensive study/development plan for this location.
Supported a comment by Elaine J on
440 Arden Way
4 months ago
Elaine J
Woodlake does not have enough park space as it is. You need to provide green space for this project and not use the Park as your backyard. You are not providing any funds for Park Space, instead your taking away from the already small park space for the Community.
Also it is not required to have parking but every area of Sacramento has vehicles even downtown. Your tenants mostly will to and you will be taking everyone in the area’s parking space at the park. Yes your tenants and visitors will take up all parking in the area.
This area has very few sidewalks. Do you realize how dangerous it is for all the tenants too?
Canterbury has no sidewalks. What neighborhood builds so many multi-family projects that endanger the lives of the people that live there. How dangerous will it be with all the increased tenants sharing the roadway-pedestrians, bikes, and vehicles. This does’nt include the lack of lighting. It is wreckless for these projects to be approved with no plan to address the dangerous conditions.
The City is spending millions around Sacramento for Pedestrian Safety and in this neighborhood it is going in the opposite direction. Making it more dangerous to all is shocking and quite frankly a case can be made for all who participate in these projects to be liable for any injuries or death do to the dangerous street conditions here.
This project should be reduced in size and all the for-mentioned should be addressed.
Woodlake does not have enough park space as it is. You need to provide green space for this project and not use the Park as your backyard. You are not providing any funds for Park Space, instead your taking away from the already small park space for the Community.
Also it is not required to have parking but every area of Sacramento has vehicles even downtown. Your tenants mostly will to and you will be taking everyone in the area’s parking space at the park. Yes your tenants and visitors will take up all parking in the area.
This area has very few sidewalks. Do you realize how dangerous it is for all the tenants too?
Canterbury has no sidewalks. What neighborhood builds so many multi-family projects that endanger the lives of the people that live there. How dangerous will it be with all the increased tenants sharing the roadway-pedestrians, bikes, and vehicles. This does’nt include the lack of lighting. It is wreckless for these projects to be approved with no plan to address the dangerous conditions.
The City is spending millions around Sacramento for Pedestrian Safety and in this neighborhood it is going in the opposite direction. Making it more dangerous to all is shocking and quite frankly a case can be made for all who participate in these projects to be liable for any injuries or death do to the dangerous street conditions here.
This project should be reduced in size and all the for-mentioned should be addressed.
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
4 months ago
Dave C
Please share the steps you will be taking to ensure a minimal impact on traffic safety as advised by your traffic consultant. Please identify your traffic consultant. Please publish the results of your "work" with this consultant.
Please share the steps you will be taking to ensure a minimal impact on traffic safety as advised by your traffic consultant. Please identify your traffic consultant. Please publish the results of your "work" with this consultant.
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Dave C
The Creative Crosswalk program is literally just "street art" between the crosswalk lines which everyone knows will greatly increase the safety of poorly located cross walks in dense traffic situations What a joke that you are relying on this to answer community concerns. https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/Public-Works/Transportation/Active-Transportation/CityofSacramentoCriteriaandGuidanceforCreativeCrosswalksCouncil-Approved-20210504.pdf?la=en
The Creative Crosswalk program is literally just "street art" between the crosswalk lines which everyone knows will greatly increase the safety of poorly located cross walks in dense traffic situations What a joke that you are relying on this to answer community concerns. https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/Public-Works/Transportation/Active-Transportation/CityofSacramentoCriteriaandGuidanceforCreativeCrosswalksCouncil-Approved-20210504.pdf?la=en
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
5 months ago
Dave C
"Urbanist" want a conveniently located workforce warehoused in crappy housing so they can pay them less. This project fits that bill perfectly not to mention the publicly subsidized Bridge Housing ownership stake that will exist in perpetuity or until Bridge bails on the project after 10 years throwing the neighborhood and the housing residents to the klepto capitalist wolves.
"Urbanist" want a conveniently located workforce warehoused in crappy housing so they can pay them less. This project fits that bill perfectly not to mention the publicly subsidized Bridge Housing ownership stake that will exist in perpetuity or until Bridge bails on the project after 10 years throwing the neighborhood and the housing residents to the klepto capitalist wolves.
Supported a comment by Diane W on
440 Arden Way
5 months ago
Diane W
Reduce the number of units and provide parking for all plus their guests. Otherwise you will be creating additional problems for the neighborhood . Also, provide green space and barbecues etc for outdoor living and dining. It’s not appropriate to stuff these people in tiny little apartments without providing outdoor space for them. Woodlake park is not your solution.
Reduce the number of units and provide parking for all plus their guests. Otherwise you will be creating additional problems for the neighborhood . Also, provide green space and barbecues etc for outdoor living and dining. It’s not appropriate to stuff these people in tiny little apartments without providing outdoor space for them. Woodlake park is not your solution.
Commented on 440 Arden Way
5 months ago
No one in their right mind supports this. Why don’t you get a clue and move your efforts to the 30 acres in Folsom?
Supported a comment by Jane Macaulay on
440 Arden Way
5 months ago
Jane Macaulay
If this developer had ANY interest in the actual residents nearby they would have taken our feedback at the start of this project. Y’all had zero interest then and less now. Exempt from required park contribution to the area and blind and disinterested in design or size changes. This "vacant" property HAD A PLAN - it was townhouses and a developed area with shopping for nearby residents. This community spent millions of dollars on a plan - and the city and developers ignored it. At this point - good luck - we will start counting the pedestrian fatalities from your parking lot on the very busy Arden Way. Money was and will always be the end game for these folks. Helping people is last on your list just above community participation.
If this developer had ANY interest in the actual residents nearby they would have taken our feedback at the start of this project. Y’all had zero interest then and less now. Exempt from required park contribution to the area and blind and disinterested in design or size changes. This "vacant" property HAD A PLAN - it was townhouses and a developed area with shopping for nearby residents. This community spent millions of dollars on a plan - and the city and developers ignored it. At this point - good luck - we will start counting the pedestrian fatalities from your parking lot on the very busy Arden Way. Money was and will always be the end game for these folks. Helping people is last on your list just above community participation.
Supported a comment by Lauren F on
440 Arden Way
5 months, 1 week ago
Lauren F
This development is too large for the neighborhood. The schools are among the lowest rated in Sacramento. The train tracks are steps away and there are no sidewalks or crosswalks near this site for the hundreds of people and children who would potentially live here. Parking projections are absurd, parking for one car for 1/3 of the units - what? This project would ruin the beloved Woodlake community. This project just doesn’t make sense.
This development is too large for the neighborhood. The schools are among the lowest rated in Sacramento. The train tracks are steps away and there are no sidewalks or crosswalks near this site for the hundreds of people and children who would potentially live here. Parking projections are absurd, parking for one car for 1/3 of the units - what? This project would ruin the beloved Woodlake community. This project just doesn’t make sense.
Supported a comment by Stacy Lunetta on
440 Arden Way
5 months, 1 week ago
Stacy Lunetta
What do we need to do to stop this project like East Sac - get an attorney
What do we need to do to stop this project like East Sac - get an attorney
Supported a comment by Elaine J on
440 Arden Way
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Elaine J
Not Paying Park fee's diminish the Park Space in the Community. This is the 3rd proposed project with no Park Fee's in this area. You are diminishing the Quality of Air and Life for the People who already reside here by Building this Project. You are not being a good neighbor to our Community. We need more Park Space. Not a 3rd Project with no Property Taxes Paid or no Park Fee's. Stop this Project Now. Greed is creating poor Quality of Life for our Community. Do a Better Job. Make this Project 2 stories only for Senior's. They need Low Income Housing. We need Facilities for Seniors here.
Not Paying Park fee's diminish the Park Space in the Community. This is the 3rd proposed project with no Park Fee's in this area. You are diminishing the Quality of Air and Life for the People who already reside here by Building this Project. You are not being a good neighbor to our Community. We need more Park Space. Not a 3rd Project with no Property Taxes Paid or no Park Fee's. Stop this Project Now. Greed is creating poor Quality of Life for our Community. Do a Better Job. Make this Project 2 stories only for Senior's. They need Low Income Housing. We need Facilities for Seniors here.
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Dave C
Your building at 1950 Mission St. in San Francisco is operated like a SRO hotel in the SF Tenderloin and it appears to be a model for this project. Entrance and exits monitored by staff, a staff member dedicated to placement of a constant churn of residents falling in and out of residency compliance. In the Case of 1950 Mission St, placement and qualifications are assisted and vetted by a very large city government administration called the Mayors Office of Housing. There is no such organization like that in Sacramento. Are you going to vet and place all residents with your own staff?
Your building at 1950 Mission St. in San Francisco is operated like a SRO hotel in the SF Tenderloin and it appears to be a model for this project. Entrance and exits monitored by staff, a staff member dedicated to placement of a constant churn of residents falling in and out of residency compliance. In the Case of 1950 Mission St, placement and qualifications are assisted and vetted by a very large city government administration called the Mayors Office of Housing. There is no such organization like that in Sacramento. Are you going to vet and place all residents with your own staff?
Commented on 440 Arden Way
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Very few people in public housing work, something like 30 percent. Look it up, plus there are almost no employment opportunities in North Sac. The Federal government through its housing agency has prohibitions against placing these kinds of projects in low opportunity areas, plus factor in the incredibly low performing schools. I don’t know how they get away with placing so many here and plans for more! We must call in the Feds!
Supported a comment by Kristen Perry on
440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Kristen Perry
I was told by the city housing rep pets would not be allowed. Which is sad but might might be a good thing since Woodlake Park is really not that big for about hundred more dogs?
I was told by the city housing rep pets would not be allowed. Which is sad but might might be a good thing since Woodlake Park is really not that big for about hundred more dogs?
Supported a comment by Pat SH on
440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Pat SH
Limit the building size to 2 stories or move someplace else. Not in our park.
Limit the building size to 2 stories or move someplace else. Not in our park.
Commented on 440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Have you factored in the very recent influx of Afghani students in the area? My granddaughter goes to Northwood, 50 new Afghanis, 9 in her class alone!
Supported a comment by Elaine J on
440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Elaine J
Why aren’t you thinking of how this will effect the safety of the existing Community. Putting Sidewalks around the Park will only create more dangerous situations when they try and walk down the sidewalks and cross the streets to no sidewalks. This project will push children into the streets when they walk to school. Are you going to take Responsibility when one of these children get hit.
Why aren’t you thinking of how this will effect the safety of the existing Community. Putting Sidewalks around the Park will only create more dangerous situations when they try and walk down the sidewalks and cross the streets to no sidewalks. This project will push children into the streets when they walk to school. Are you going to take Responsibility when one of these children get hit.
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Dave C
Bridge Housing should be required to pay for sidewalks and traffic mitigation at least between this housing project and the local school. Should also be required to fund two new teachers and two new classrooms at the local elementary school
Bridge Housing should be required to pay for sidewalks and traffic mitigation at least between this housing project and the local school. Should also be required to fund two new teachers and two new classrooms at the local elementary school
Supported a comment by Kristen Perry on
440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Kristen Perry
It’s too big and ugly- a total mistake
It’s too big and ugly- a total mistake
Supported a comment by Kristen Perry on
440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Kristen Perry
This is a good question we’d like to see your use of state and federal taxpayer money which may be about 750,000 dollars a unit - a unit- to build with Bridge profiting. The proposed design does not meet the price tag.
This is a good question we’d like to see your use of state and federal taxpayer money which may be about 750,000 dollars a unit - a unit- to build with Bridge profiting. The proposed design does not meet the price tag.
Supported a comment by Kristen Perry on
440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Kristen Perry
Stop this project that would make it better
Stop this project that would make it better
Supported a comment by Kristen Perry on
440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Kristen Perry
Leave and create more park space
Leave and create more park space
Supported a comment by Colleen Whalen on
440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Colleen Whalen
There needs to be a low priced, full service GROCERY STORE near this apt bldg - Invite TRADER JOES or GROCERY OUTLET - or even Raleys to build a healthy grocery store.
There needs to be a low priced, full service GROCERY STORE near this apt bldg - Invite TRADER JOES or GROCERY OUTLET - or even Raleys to build a healthy grocery store.
Supported a comment by Kristen Perry on
440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Kristen Perry
No - you don’t hear us. Stop the auto replies and leave. You have made a big mistake and the governor will not be proud of this development. #noribboncutting
No - you don’t hear us. Stop the auto replies and leave. You have made a big mistake and the governor will not be proud of this development. #noribboncutting
Commented on 440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
And no mention of the expected 400 students at the school coming in across the street. No answer to the fact that Twin Rivers are the lowest performing schools in entire state. (Will jamming so many low income projects in such an educational disaster area pass Federal muster? We shall see. Seems blatantly racist to me.) How about the streets, narrow as the Crookedest Street in SF, going to accommodate ambulances for our large elderly population and school buses? I have pictures of one stuck between cars. Poorly thought out project that offends the elderly, school children, and the sacred area of the Police Memorial.
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Stuart Gow
This project will physically dominate our community, monopolize our green space and congest our roads. But there are nearby spaces where this project could instead improve the environment. The inflexibility and the lack of imagination and foresight from the State and Bridge is awful. The community knows this project is a huge mistake so why can’t you listen Bridge?
This project will physically dominate our community, monopolize our green space and congest our roads. But there are nearby spaces where this project could instead improve the environment. The inflexibility and the lack of imagination and foresight from the State and Bridge is awful. The community knows this project is a huge mistake so why can’t you listen Bridge?
Supported a comment by Elaine J on
440 Arden Way
7 months ago
Elaine J
Keep the project below 3 stories. If you don’t the streets surrounding this project will become unsafe. The streets will be unsafe as they were not built for this large project on such narrow streets. We have a lack of sidewalks and someone will be injured due to this project.
The project will also take over the Park as it will be your projects Backyard. This is not right to take a communities park over as your own. You are not adding any Park space or impact fees. This is not the right thing to do to a community.
Keep the project below 3 stories. If you don’t the streets surrounding this project will become unsafe. The streets will be unsafe as they were not built for this large project on such narrow streets. We have a lack of sidewalks and someone will be injured due to this project.
The project will also take over the Park as it will be your projects Backyard. This is not right to take a communities park over as your own. You are not adding any Park space or impact fees. This is not the right thing to do to a community.
Supported a comment by Kristen Perry on
440 Arden Way
7 months ago
Kristen Perry
When Bridge applied for the federal and state grants maybe you should have considered the neighborhood first. A two maybe three story building with the complimentary architecture and a really nice place to live for our new neighbors should have been required. At almost 100 million dollars to build this should be beautiful and innovating with solar, water wise roof garden and water efficient appliances, etc. what happened?
When Bridge applied for the federal and state grants maybe you should have considered the neighborhood first. A two maybe three story building with the complimentary architecture and a really nice place to live for our new neighbors should have been required. At almost 100 million dollars to build this should be beautiful and innovating with solar, water wise roof garden and water efficient appliances, etc. what happened?
Supported a comment by T Davis on
440 Arden Way
7 months, 2 weeks ago
T Davis
Agree! Too many stories and units. You’re only planning on 60 parking places when there is over 100 units planned? That doesn’t make sense. Where are the other half of the residents suppose to park?
Agree! Too many stories and units. You’re only planning on 60 parking places when there is over 100 units planned? That doesn’t make sense. Where are the other half of the residents suppose to park?
Supported a comment by tricia talle on
440 Arden Way
7 months, 2 weeks ago
tricia talle
When are you going to answer Dave's questions?
When are you going to answer Dave's questions?
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Dave C
At the city council meeting on May 31, 2022 Daniel Foster with Sacramento city claimed there were 10,000 children in need of childcare in our district but she also claimed there were 2500 licensed child care providers in the district as well. That is four children per provider. There is a child care facility currently operating mere steps away from you proposed location. They have the capacity to care for up to 30 children yet they have only been serving a handful of children on a regular basis. How do you justify expanding the size of your proposed development to accommodate child care when it is clear there is not a demonstrated need?
At the city council meeting on May 31, 2022 Daniel Foster with Sacramento city claimed there were 10,000 children in need of childcare in our district but she also claimed there were 2500 licensed child care providers in the district as well. That is four children per provider. There is a child care facility currently operating mere steps away from you proposed location. They have the capacity to care for up to 30 children yet they have only been serving a handful of children on a regular basis. How do you justify expanding the size of your proposed development to accommodate child care when it is clear there is not a demonstrated need?
Commented on 440 Arden Way
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Also consult with Twin Rivers Transportation office. This summer, busses could not get through to pick up at Woodlake school. Do you need pictures because I have them. Also consult with fire department. When cars are parked on both sides, no fire or sanitation trucks can get through. You simply cannot do this to people. Massive letter to Governor on way. You need to put this in the site at Folsom where more than 30 acres are available and schools are great! To do otherwise is pure racism, ageism, (huge presence of elderly here) and anti law enforcement.
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Dave C
"onboarding"? Seriously? So it won't really be an independent traffic study. My understanding is that a "formal traffic study" will only measure Level of Service at major arteries and intersections. Your project will literally be "urbanizing" a quiet suburban neighborhood causing gross impact on parking and traffic on narrow, quiet neighborhood roads. Roads that were never intended to support an apartment complex of this magnitude. Please make sure your onboarded traffic consultant takes into account in a realistic manner the effect your project will have on this community, not just major arteries and intersections. And please publish those results well in advance of furtherance of this project.
"onboarding"? Seriously? So it won't really be an independent traffic study. My understanding is that a "formal traffic study" will only measure Level of Service at major arteries and intersections. Your project will literally be "urbanizing" a quiet suburban neighborhood causing gross impact on parking and traffic on narrow, quiet neighborhood roads. Roads that were never intended to support an apartment complex of this magnitude. Please make sure your onboarded traffic consultant takes into account in a realistic manner the effect your project will have on this community, not just major arteries and intersections. And please publish those results well in advance of furtherance of this project.
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Dave C
My understanding is that traffic studies of this sort depend entirely on "point in time" traffic counts. I bet no consideration will be given to likely increases in traffic volume in the future.
My understanding is that traffic studies of this sort depend entirely on "point in time" traffic counts. I bet no consideration will be given to likely increases in traffic volume in the future.
Supported a comment by Elaine J on
440 Arden Way
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Elaine J
The building is out of scale for the neighborhood. It would be best to have it be 2-3 stories as the streets are extremely narrow and hardly any sidewalks. This is a danger for the whole community.
The building is out of scale for the neighborhood. It would be best to have it be 2-3 stories as the streets are extremely narrow and hardly any sidewalks. This is a danger for the whole community.
Supported a comment by Emily K on
440 Arden Way
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Emily K
invest in other projects for District 2 that bring jobs and services; a farmers market; tenant improvement program, facade improvements, infrastructure upgrades https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/08/10/a-history-of-underfunding-north-sacramento-residents-call-for-investments-in-community/
invest in other projects for District 2 that bring jobs and services; a farmers market; tenant improvement program, facade improvements, infrastructure upgrades https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/08/10/a-history-of-underfunding-north-sacramento-residents-call-for-investments-in-community/
Supported a comment by T Davis on
440 Arden Way
7 months, 3 weeks ago
T Davis
The Woodlake Neighborhood is historic & charming. This project is an elephant in the room. To tall and too many units. It does not need to be seen, towering, over the neighborhood. 2 to 3 floors is sufficient. There is not even enough parking spaces for the units planned. Only 60 parking spaces for over 100 units? Off site parking will be a nightmare to the neighborhood. Less cement and more green space is needed. If Art Deco is the style, then it should be located on Dec Paso Ave. This seems like a project that “got to big for its pants!”
The Woodlake Neighborhood is historic & charming. This project is an elephant in the room. To tall and too many units. It does not need to be seen, towering, over the neighborhood. 2 to 3 floors is sufficient. There is not even enough parking spaces for the units planned. Only 60 parking spaces for over 100 units? Off site parking will be a nightmare to the neighborhood. Less cement and more green space is needed. If Art Deco is the style, then it should be located on Dec Paso Ave. This seems like a project that “got to big for its pants!”
Supported a comment by Pat SH on
440 Arden Way
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Pat SH
Keeping within 2 stories. You can make the decision according to GSD.
Keeping within 2 stories. You can make the decision according to GSD.
Commented on 440 Arden Way
7 months, 3 weeks ago
When doing this traffic study, don’t forget to add in the effects of the new school directly across the street from this project—eventually to serve 400 students!
Supported a comment by Dave C on
440 Arden Way
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Dave C
At five stories tall on a little more than an acre of land this project is to big. With a planned 220 bedrooms that could mean 660 occupants by current maximum occupancy standards. To think that at least half of these occupants won't want to own a car is crazy. Thats 330 new cars to the neighborhood that simply can't handle that influx. You need to rethink the scale of this project to realistically fit in this physical space. It should be no more than two stories in height to fit in with the surrounding neighborhood aesthetics and should cater to elderly and disabled housing recipients with associated services for that demographic. The parking, traffic and safety concerns related to the size of your project are too great to sweep under the rug.
At five stories tall on a little more than an acre of land this project is to big. With a planned 220 bedrooms that could mean 660 occupants by current maximum occupancy standards. To think that at least half of these occupants won't want to own a car is crazy. Thats 330 new cars to the neighborhood that simply can't handle that influx. You need to rethink the scale of this project to realistically fit in this physical space. It should be no more than two stories in height to fit in with the surrounding neighborhood aesthetics and should cater to elderly and disabled housing recipients with associated services for that demographic. The parking, traffic and safety concerns related to the size of your project are too great to sweep under the rug.
Supported a comment by Madeline G on
440 Arden Way
10 months ago
Madeline G
440 Arden Way, Sacramento: Woodlake is an older community and our houses are of an earlier style. A five story building in our neighborhood will look out of place. Please do not go over three stories. One thing is to provide housing but another is to keep the city scape attractive. A five story building will stickout too much. Additionally, it is next to the Sacramento police memorial. A big building towering over the memorial will be unattractive and DISRESPECTFUL to our fallen men and women in blue who have served our people in Sacramento.
440 Arden Way, Sacramento: Woodlake is an older community and our houses are of an earlier style. A five story building in our neighborhood will look out of place. Please do not go over three stories. One thing is to provide housing but another is to keep the city scape attractive. A five story building will stickout too much. Additionally, it is next to the Sacramento police memorial. A big building towering over the memorial will be unattractive and DISRESPECTFUL to our fallen men and women in blue who have served our people in Sacramento.
Supported a comment by John f on
440 Arden Way
11 months, 1 week ago
John f
Adding a public bathroom on the building for the adjacent park which has nothing ?
Adding a public bathroom on the building for the adjacent park which has nothing ?
Supported a comment by Michelle Bevilacqua on
440 Arden Way
11 months, 1 week ago
Michelle Bevilacqua
Stop this terrible apartment complex on Arden and Oxford from being built
Stop this terrible apartment complex on Arden and Oxford from being built
Supported a comment by John f on
440 Arden Way
11 months, 1 week ago
John f
We haven’t had a bathroom in years. The light rail station has no bathrooms. The park used the bushes on the south side of the proposed building and light rail customers used the west side bushes. There should be a public restroom somewhere on the building.
We haven’t had a bathroom in years. The light rail station has no bathrooms. The park used the bushes on the south side of the proposed building and light rail customers used the west side bushes. There should be a public restroom somewhere on the building.
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
11 months, 1 week ago
Stuart Gow
Colleen the average income in Woodlake is 54k so most of our community would qualify to live in these apartments. Home prices are inflated. We are not Beverly Hills or even East Sac. Most people just want these apartments to not be five stories high.
I hope these people reply to you and that you can get in. I have a friend who is 73 and hope he can get in too.
Colleen the average income in Woodlake is 54k so most of our community would qualify to live in these apartments. Home prices are inflated. We are not Beverly Hills or even East Sac. Most people just want these apartments to not be five stories high.
I hope these people reply to you and that you can get in. I have a friend who is 73 and hope he can get in too.
Supported a comment by Arthur D on
440 Arden Way
11 months, 1 week ago
Arthur D
We live on Woodlake Drive directly across from this looming monstrosity. We will see this beast from our beautiful 1960’s bungalow front window every day. It is horrifying that this is being dumped in our neighborhood. Woodlake, which was featured by Preservation Sacramento, is the crown jewel of Old North Sacramento. It is an historic neighborhood and should be protected from reckless development like this. It is crazy this is even being allowed. Woodlake is a quant English village full of historic homes, most of which date between 1910 and the 1960’s. Woodlake home prices range from 600 thousand up to a million or more, this is not a cookie-cutter residential neighborhood. A five-story building in Sacramento’s most beautiful suburban residential park is insane. There is not another five-story residential building anywhere in North Sacramento. There is barely anything over two-stories and yet you are putting one here in the historic Woodlake neighborhood park, that is nuts. Del Paso Boulevard is where low-income development is needed and justified. It has the Art Deco style you are claiming to emulate. But there is nothing Art Deco or appealing about this atrocious structure of concrete, metal siding, and glass. Enormous address numbers in a font that looks vaguely Art Deco-ish "lipstick on a pig" will not transform this blocky institutional looking building into something appealing for Woodlake or North Sacramento!
We live on Woodlake Drive directly across from this looming monstrosity. We will see this beast from our beautiful 1960’s bungalow front window every day. It is horrifying that this is being dumped in our neighborhood. Woodlake, which was featured by Preservation Sacramento, is the crown jewel of Old North Sacramento. It is an historic neighborhood and should be protected from reckless development like this. It is crazy this is even being allowed. Woodlake is a quant English village full of historic homes, most of which date between 1910 and the 1960’s. Woodlake home prices range from 600 thousand up to a million or more, this is not a cookie-cutter residential neighborhood. A five-story building in Sacramento’s most beautiful suburban residential park is insane. There is not another five-story residential building anywhere in North Sacramento. There is barely anything over two-stories and yet you are putting one here in the historic Woodlake neighborhood park, that is nuts. Del Paso Boulevard is where low-income development is needed and justified. It has the Art Deco style you are claiming to emulate. But there is nothing Art Deco or appealing about this atrocious structure of concrete, metal siding, and glass. Enormous address numbers in a font that looks vaguely Art Deco-ish "lipstick on a pig" will not transform this blocky institutional looking building into something appealing for Woodlake or North Sacramento!
Supported a comment by Elaine J on
440 Arden Way
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Elaine J
Telling People that Transit will stop Vehicle use is wrong. I have know many people who live in Mid-town and Downtown Sacramento. They all had vehicles. Some even regularly paid Parking fines. I can think of many. I also have been in many Affordable housing projects and one thing they all had in common was they all had a lot of Vehicles. Please tell the Truth Bridge Housing. I know from experience.
Telling People that Transit will stop Vehicle use is wrong. I have know many people who live in Mid-town and Downtown Sacramento. They all had vehicles. Some even regularly paid Parking fines. I can think of many. I also have been in many Affordable housing projects and one thing they all had in common was they all had a lot of Vehicles. Please tell the Truth Bridge Housing. I know from experience.
Supported a comment by Elaine J on
440 Arden Way
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Elaine J
I think you should find a better location. We need more Park Space as this area already has the worst Air Quality. Could Bridge find a Better Location for this size of Project.
I think you should find a better location. We need more Park Space as this area already has the worst Air Quality. Could Bridge find a Better Location for this size of Project.
Supported a comment by Elaine J on
440 Arden Way
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Elaine J
Dear Bridge Housing. My Sister-in-Law who was from Philadelphia stated to me many times. Sacramento does not have good Public Transportation. It takes to long to get around Sacramento. How do you think this will play out for families Bridge? Taking an hour or 2 for any mother or father to get somewhere is way to long. They will have to have a vehicle, Period. You are not telling the neighborhood the truth, you cannot stop the Nightmare that will happen to this area because of the Narrow Streets, Lack of Side walk, and no Crosswalks. How did you get around CEQA? Maybe the only way to get honesty is Law Suit.
Dear Bridge Housing. My Sister-in-Law who was from Philadelphia stated to me many times. Sacramento does not have good Public Transportation. It takes to long to get around Sacramento. How do you think this will play out for families Bridge? Taking an hour or 2 for any mother or father to get somewhere is way to long. They will have to have a vehicle, Period. You are not telling the neighborhood the truth, you cannot stop the Nightmare that will happen to this area because of the Narrow Streets, Lack of Side walk, and no Crosswalks. How did you get around CEQA? Maybe the only way to get honesty is Law Suit.
Supported a comment by Elaine J on
440 Arden Way
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Elaine J
Way too big for this lot. Too many occupants for the Area. Your taking space away from a community with limited Space. Did you go through SEQA. I don't know how you got around this. Too many Health and Safety issues for the Community with this Big of a Project.
Way too big for this lot. Too many occupants for the Area. Your taking space away from a community with limited Space. Did you go through SEQA. I don't know how you got around this. Too many Health and Safety issues for the Community with this Big of a Project.
Supported a comment by K.B. Redman on
440 Arden Way
11 months, 2 weeks ago
K.B. Redman
You have not said how you will restrict vehicle ownership or provide adequate parking. Public transit is great if you are going downtown at regular commute hours. How will families shop for groceries on public transit? And the LAST thing we need is ANOTHER convenience-liquor store!
You have not said how you will restrict vehicle ownership or provide adequate parking. Public transit is great if you are going downtown at regular commute hours. How will families shop for groceries on public transit? And the LAST thing we need is ANOTHER convenience-liquor store!
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Stuart Gow
Dave C’s comment is accurate. At this community meeting Bridge needs to be honest about the number of occupants and vehicles. This is not SF and our light rail and bus system is limited here so more occupants will own vehicles than in other Bridges projects. Bridges care-less responses regarding the out of control and dangerous traffic conditions this building will create need to be addressed.
Our community needs housing but this is a for profit scheme to collect 99 years of rent while exploiting public land and draining public funds and resources.
These issues all need to be and will be confronted in the open at this meeting.
Dave C’s comment is accurate. At this community meeting Bridge needs to be honest about the number of occupants and vehicles. This is not SF and our light rail and bus system is limited here so more occupants will own vehicles than in other Bridges projects. Bridges care-less responses regarding the out of control and dangerous traffic conditions this building will create need to be addressed.
Our community needs housing but this is a for profit scheme to collect 99 years of rent while exploiting public land and draining public funds and resources.
These issues all need to be and will be confronted in the open at this meeting.
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
12 months ago
Stuart Gow
I respect your opinion but I’m surprised by it since you live on the park. We do need housing but this will cut off access to the park and playground for many families from the surrounding community. With no contribution from the developer towards more green space or any other consideration towards offsetting their carbon footprint I find this project unimpressive. If it was smaller and a Lead certified building for seniors I could support it.
I respect your opinion but I’m surprised by it since you live on the park. We do need housing but this will cut off access to the park and playground for many families from the surrounding community. With no contribution from the developer towards more green space or any other consideration towards offsetting their carbon footprint I find this project unimpressive. If it was smaller and a Lead certified building for seniors I could support it.
Supported a comment by Kristen Perry on
440 Arden Way
12 months ago
Kristen Perry
If it was 75 units you’d be spot on this is way too big
If it was 75 units you’d be spot on this is way too big
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
12 months ago
Stuart Gow
Mike Claiborne do you realize there could be 400 plus residents living on this one acre?
Mike Claiborne do you realize there could be 400 plus residents living on this one acre?
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Stuart Gow
Bridge your response regarding traffic and parking is inadequate to the extent that it’s unprofessional and insulting. You have zero experience building in Sacramento. Our public transit is dismal compared to SF so the number of car owners will be substantially higher than you are promising. Bicycles will not compensate, that is seriously laughable.
Bridge your response regarding traffic and parking is inadequate to the extent that it’s unprofessional and insulting. You have zero experience building in Sacramento. Our public transit is dismal compared to SF so the number of car owners will be substantially higher than you are promising. Bicycles will not compensate, that is seriously laughable.
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Stuart Gow
This development will monopolize access to the local green space and the childrens playground by filling the current park parking and making Oxford virtually impassable. This is robbing a local community that is already underserved of it’s already minimal resources. Bridge is unable to answer how it will mitigate this issue because there is no solution. Those of us who are familiar with site see the parking fill up and the traffic back on Oxford Street up already. We also see the childrens playground used every day by local families. It’s shameful that a company like Bridge would steal from such a needy community and it’s children.
This development will monopolize access to the local green space and the childrens playground by filling the current park parking and making Oxford virtually impassable. This is robbing a local community that is already underserved of it’s already minimal resources. Bridge is unable to answer how it will mitigate this issue because there is no solution. Those of us who are familiar with site see the parking fill up and the traffic back on Oxford Street up already. We also see the childrens playground used every day by local families. It’s shameful that a company like Bridge would steal from such a needy community and it’s children.
Supported a comment by Lauren F on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Lauren F
More businesses (retail, grocery, bars and restaurants). Sidewalks, lower speed limit and private security. NOT build densely packed apartment housing.
More businesses (retail, grocery, bars and restaurants). Sidewalks, lower speed limit and private security. NOT build densely packed apartment housing.
Supported a comment by Dustin E on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Dustin E
Definitely need to be mindful of traffic in this area, with the train right there.
Definitely need to be mindful of traffic in this area, with the train right there.
Supported a comment by Lana M on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Lana M
I have questions: 1. Your initial proposal had 2 options. One with 102 units if Bridge did not acquire adjacent property and another with 124 units if they did. Am I to assume Bridge now is acquiring the adjacent property as the larger project is the only one described here? 2. This site mentions CEQUA review. Is that happening. I thought the ministerial infill process was being used which does not require CEQUA or any environmental review for that matter? 3. The before & after visuals of this development from the Police Officer Memorial perspective show a large boulevard separating the project from the memorial. Currently there is only a narrow driveway. How is it a boulevard would be constructed?
I have questions: 1. Your initial proposal had 2 options. One with 102 units if Bridge did not acquire adjacent property and another with 124 units if they did. Am I to assume Bridge now is acquiring the adjacent property as the larger project is the only one described here? 2. This site mentions CEQUA review. Is that happening. I thought the ministerial infill process was being used which does not require CEQUA or any environmental review for that matter? 3. The before & after visuals of this development from the Police Officer Memorial perspective show a large boulevard separating the project from the memorial. Currently there is only a narrow driveway. How is it a boulevard would be constructed?
Supported a comment by Tim Smith on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Tim Smith
I would not like to see child care center placed at this location or in any adjacent space until you can demonstrate that children can safely cross the street to access it during the morning and evening rush hour periods.
I would not like to see child care center placed at this location or in any adjacent space until you can demonstrate that children can safely cross the street to access it during the morning and evening rush hour periods.
Supported a comment by B Jimenez on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
B Jimenez
as a board member of the Woodlake neighborhood association I am disappointed in the lack of transparency and inability of myself or neighbors to share their views out of this survey which does not provide open comments & has no email; phone or address to submit additional views.
as a board member of the Woodlake neighborhood association I am disappointed in the lack of transparency and inability of myself or neighbors to share their views out of this survey which does not provide open comments & has no email; phone or address to submit additional views.
Supported a comment by Lauren F on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Lauren F
There isn’t a need for childcare in this community. We are majority retirees and childless residential families.
There isn’t a need for childcare in this community. We are majority retirees and childless residential families.
Commented on 440 Arden Way
1 year ago
What are you talking about? A better place for this monstrosity would be the 30 acre site in Folsom owned by the state. Lots of room, near transit, and GOOD schools. Go ahead, try putting it there, I dare you.
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Stuart Gow
Bridge is seizing community assets such as the park access and RT access to make a profit.
I’d like to see development of the site by an organization that will build our community instead of stripping it.
Bridge is seizing community assets such as the park access and RT access to make a profit.
I’d like to see development of the site by an organization that will build our community instead of stripping it.
Supported a comment by John Holden on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
John Holden
The parking and congestion is going to be a disaster for the community,
The parking and congestion is going to be a disaster for the community,
Supported a comment by Jane Macaulay on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Jane Macaulay
Has the state bumped its head? Have you been to the site? This is a terrible location for housing. A 5-story building in a park in a single family residential area? We have 5 housing projects within a mile of this park. None of the housing projects are required to provide any park space. Woodlake park would be the go-to and we currently have very little parking for park visitors. A better location for this project would be at the former Colfax Yard. This location was a planned TOD back in the day. We also have a park area dedicated to fallen police officer Tara O’Sullivan plus the police and sheriffs memorial. These landmarks have events throughout the year and parking is already very difficult at those events. Woodlake is a historical asset for this district - it was modeled after an English village and it is a special place. We have to move forward though fully for this park space. Our cal enviro screen score is 96 for air quality and geotracker has this community designated as a severely disadvantaged community. We need park space for healthy living. This area should be an orchard with trees and benches and community tables and parking. We need activities that draw existing community and future residents of the many already approved projects at this location.
Has the state bumped its head? Have you been to the site? This is a terrible location for housing. A 5-story building in a park in a single family residential area? We have 5 housing projects within a mile of this park. None of the housing projects are required to provide any park space. Woodlake park would be the go-to and we currently have very little parking for park visitors. A better location for this project would be at the former Colfax Yard. This location was a planned TOD back in the day. We also have a park area dedicated to fallen police officer Tara O’Sullivan plus the police and sheriffs memorial. These landmarks have events throughout the year and parking is already very difficult at those events. Woodlake is a historical asset for this district - it was modeled after an English village and it is a special place. We have to move forward though fully for this park space. Our cal enviro screen score is 96 for air quality and geotracker has this community designated as a severely disadvantaged community. We need park space for healthy living. This area should be an orchard with trees and benches and community tables and parking. We need activities that draw existing community and future residents of the many already approved projects at this location.
Supported a comment by Kevin Dumler on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Kevin Dumler
Sidewalk improvements on Oxford Way would make walking to the RT Station from Woodlake much more pleasant.
Sidewalk improvements on Oxford Way would make walking to the RT Station from Woodlake much more pleasant.
Supported a comment by Franklin Burris on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Franklin Burris
Still too much massing and not enough articulation in the elevations.
Still too much massing and not enough articulation in the elevations.
Supported a comment by B Jimenez on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
B Jimenez
Find a difference space to build this giant project or limit it in size.
Find a difference space to build this giant project or limit it in size.
Supported a comment by Stacy Lunetta on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Stacy Lunetta
Where are these folks going to park and drive.
Our streets are crazy. I invite you to visit Oxford and Woodlake the traffic is nonstop.
Having a daycare is going to this problem worse. And apartments this is crazy. Say goodbye to our lovely neighborhood.
Where are these folks going to park and drive.
Our streets are crazy. I invite you to visit Oxford and Woodlake the traffic is nonstop.
Having a daycare is going to this problem worse. And apartments this is crazy. Say goodbye to our lovely neighborhood.
Supported a comment by Lauren F on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Lauren F
By not building a giant apartment complex in this extremely small neighborhood. It doesn’t belong here.
By not building a giant apartment complex in this extremely small neighborhood. It doesn’t belong here.
Supported a comment by Lana M on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Lana M
More open space and fewer massive apartment complexes. Nothing is planned to improve the local infrastructure which barely supports current needs.
More open space and fewer massive apartment complexes. Nothing is planned to improve the local infrastructure which barely supports current needs.
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Stuart Gow
Additionally how is the developer going to mitigate the fact that access to the existing childrens playground in the park will be denied to the local community because the armory’s tenants and guests will take all of the already limited parking?
Additionally how is the developer going to mitigate the fact that access to the existing childrens playground in the park will be denied to the local community because the armory’s tenants and guests will take all of the already limited parking?
Supported a comment by J Heller on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
J Heller
Mixed used housing. All low income housing is not conducive to a thriving community as the residents cannot afford to utilize small businesses or restaurants.
Mixed used housing. All low income housing is not conducive to a thriving community as the residents cannot afford to utilize small businesses or restaurants.
Supported a comment by B Jimenez on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
B Jimenez
Not building a five story mega apartment complex in a small neighborhood with extremely limited parking and resources.
Not building a five story mega apartment complex in a small neighborhood with extremely limited parking and resources.
Supported a comment by Franklin Burris on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Franklin Burris
I am concerned how it will affect public access to the Police & Sheriff's Memorial - an asset of regional significance. Certainly the development will obscure any views from Arden way of the memorial.
I am concerned how it will affect public access to the Police & Sheriff's Memorial - an asset of regional significance. Certainly the development will obscure any views from Arden way of the memorial.
Supported a comment by Stuart Gow on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Stuart Gow
Developing the armory as an expansion of the park to maximize access for the surrounding neighborhoods would make the community better. The proposed housing will take from the community not give. How will the Armory restrict vehicle ownership to only 67 vehicles? How many guest parking spots will there be? Otherwise the apartments will take all the park parking away from the community. How will the developers mitigate traffic backing up at the light rail crossing? If traffic backs up and there are guest and tenant cars on both sides of Oxford then the communities main access in and out will be useless and will result in traffic being forced through a neighborhood with inadequate roads to accommodate the increase safely. With other apartments being development all around the community traffic score already threatens to drop to an F rating. I’ve yet to hear a reason that shows any benefit these apartments will bring to North Sacramento.
Developing the armory as an expansion of the park to maximize access for the surrounding neighborhoods would make the community better. The proposed housing will take from the community not give. How will the Armory restrict vehicle ownership to only 67 vehicles? How many guest parking spots will there be? Otherwise the apartments will take all the park parking away from the community. How will the developers mitigate traffic backing up at the light rail crossing? If traffic backs up and there are guest and tenant cars on both sides of Oxford then the communities main access in and out will be useless and will result in traffic being forced through a neighborhood with inadequate roads to accommodate the increase safely. With other apartments being development all around the community traffic score already threatens to drop to an F rating. I’ve yet to hear a reason that shows any benefit these apartments will bring to North Sacramento.
Supported a comment by Pat SH on
440 Arden Way
1 year ago
Pat SH
Five stories is inappropriate for this location. It is in a park. It is adjacent to the Police and Sheriff Memorial. Woodlake has more than its fair share of low income housing with CHW on east, Volunteers of America on Del Paso Blvd, vouchers at Surestay on the South, and low income housing on Lochbrae.
Five stories is inappropriate for this location. It is in a park. It is adjacent to the Police and Sheriff Memorial. Woodlake has more than its fair share of low income housing with CHW on east, Volunteers of America on Del Paso Blvd, vouchers at Surestay on the South, and low income housing on Lochbrae.
Followed 440 Arden Way
1 year ago