What are the top four major impacts the citizens of West Sacramento are experiencing and how will you deal with those impacts?
Jim Cahill
Email: jim@jimcahill.org
Website: www.jimcahill.org
Phone: (916) 531-6264
Anyone who has truly walked precincts in this election would know that voters point out two urgent concerns:
The market zoning of the current Council has focused on rapid development of high-density housing. Not only has this abandonment of the General Plan vision put more and more people on the roads, it has placed more people behind levees whose integrity is now questionable until such time as they have been re-certified. Any emergency evacuation of West Sacramento will tragically highlight the validity of residents’ concerns
Some politicians seek to take credit for commercial developments such as:
The reality is that these properties have had the same commercial zoning for many years, and it is through the efforts of private sector entrepreneurs, not politicians, that they’ve been built.
Government can indeed help the private sector. As a Council Member, one of my first acts was to restore 9 acres of commercial zoning in Southport, part of which is now the site for a new retail center. Ironically, that property had been down-zoned to residential by my opponent in both that election and this one. He had promised the owners he would maintain it as commercial, but changed his mind.
I will not take credit for the successes others have achieved, but will take responsibility for insuring we keep the promise of our award-winning planning.