SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento City Council may adopt a Stockton Boulevard Plan to promote long-term economic sustainability and housing along the road, which runs through three city districts and the county.
Councilmembers, including Katie Valenzuela, Caity Maple and Eric Guerra, whose districts house the city’s portions of Stockton Boulevard, will consider the plan’s approval during the city’s 5 p.m. meeting Tuesday. The plan, if adopted, would also initiate upgrades to the street’s water systems.
Plan implementation
Land, short-term loans and redevelopment for housing projects along Stockton Boulevard are already part of $15 million council has committed to affordable housing and anti-displacement programs from the city’s General Fund, according to city documents.
In 2023, the city, county and Sacramento Regional Transit District secured $5.2 million from the Sacramento Area Council of Governments to improve the transportation corridor, promoting safer transit, walking and biking options, staff said.
In 2022, the city and county reportedly acquired $2 million from the Green Means Go program, allowing state funds for infill housing and vehicle emission reduction projects, which helped fund infrastructure improvements for affordable housing at the San Juan Motel site, including $350,000 for water system upgrades.
The city’s Neighborhood Development Action Team also dedicated $500,000 of Measure U funds toward a pilot grant program scheduled to launch after the Stockton Boulevard Plan goes to city council for adoption, staff said. An additional $200,000 was allocated for arts and culture initiatives
What does the plan seek to achieve?
The Stockton Boulevard Plan attempts to achieve several items, according to city documents:
- Mixed-use development, reuse and redevelopment
- Infill residential development supporting a mixed-income community
- Neighborhood-serving uses, including a grocery store, afterschool programs and activities for area youth
- Enhancing public recreation
- Supporting and promoting local businesses
- Balancing new investments with proactive protection and healing of the community, especially for residents and business owners that are Black, Indigenous and people of color
- Protecting, celebrating and enhancing cultural and ethnic diversity, art and community-centered character
- Enhancing pedestrian and bicyclist environments with safe routes to schools, parks, businesses and other landmarks
- Enhancing Stockton Boulevard as a bridge connection between the city and Sacramento County to the south of the plan area
ABC10 reached out to the Stockton Boulevard Partnership, a collaborative nonprofit focusing on the security, safety, economic development, advocacy and maintenance of the business corridor along the street, but it did not immediately respond to request for comment. Any response the organization provides will be added to this story.
City staff recommended in public documents that council adopt the plan.
“The Stockton Blvd. Plan streamlines the housing development process and provides a vision for the future of the corridor and neighborhood planning area,” staff wrote when providing their reasoning for the recommendation. “The Stockton Blvd. Plan is consistent with the policies of the 2040 General Plan which anticipates a mix of residential mixed-use and public/quasi-public land uses.”
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