SCNA committee seeks input on review guidelines for Curtis Park Village

By Rosanna Herber
Special to the Viewpoint

Plans for review of Curtis Park Village are currently on hold until the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) is complete, now expected sometime in May. The review process connected with the environmental document will provide the best opportunity for input and review of the proposed project itself.

For this reason, SCNA's Neighborhood Concerns Committee is working on developing a set of principles to help guide decisions around the proposed Curtis Park Village, a development proposed to be located in the Curtis Park rail yards that would encompass single and multi-family homes as well as park space and retail uses.

While still in the formative stage, the principles drafted by the committee grew out of suggestions made during discussions held with concerned neighbors. The principles are now being reviewed more fully by the Neighborhood Concerns Committee, but input and suggestions from neighbors is still desired.

SCNA would like your thoughts on these proposed principles:

• Ensure that the benefits of the Curtis Park Village development be maximized and that potential drawbacks be minimized and reasonably distributed.
• Establish a neighborhood-wide focus in evaluating the project, not an individual street-driven agenda.
• Maximize the connectivity between established neighborhoods (Curtis Park, Land Park and the Western Addition) and the new development to improve the overall flow of traffic throughout the neighborhoods and minimize the potential for any single residential street to bear an excessive share of the increased traffic.
• Incorporate traffic calming measures into the Curtis Park Village development to reduce speeds and fairly distribute increased traffic load.

• Constrain the density and commercial mix of the development as to the availability of access points, mitigating the risk of bottlenecks and unsafe traffic congestion, thereby ensuring the commercial success of the development.
• Promote walking and transit in the Curtis Park Village project so the development is pedestrian friendly and enhances its host neighborhoods.

Please let us know your thoughts about which principles should guide decision making around the Curtis Park Village environmental document. E-mail your ideas and suggestions to SCNA or mail them to the SCNA office at 2791 24th Street, Sacramento, 95818.

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