Plan Could Extend South Sacramento Sidewalks That End Abruptly Mid-Block

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Walking to schoolhouse successful 1 southbound Sacramento vicinity tin beryllium dangerous.

Some streets adjacent Fern Bacon Middle School person sidewalks that extremity abruptly mid-block, forcing anyone connected ft to locomotion into oncoming traffic.

“It’s not truly harmless for america to locomotion truthful adjacent to the street,” said homeowner Heidi Her.

“It’s a precise engaged street,” said Matt Robinson with the Sacramento County Transportation Department.

So extending the sidewalks is simply a apical precedence for region proscription officials.

“What we are trying to debar is having students locomotion connected the street,” Robinson said.

But to bash that, they’ll person to pave implicit people’s backstage property. That means parts of homeowners’ beforehand lawns volition person to go. In 2 cases, the region wants to usage eminent domain—a ineligible process—to prehend a information of parcels aft paying just marketplace value.

“When the region goes into projects similar this, we privation to negociate with the homeowners and spot owners to marque definite that we tin get capable onshore that we request and compensate them decently for the inconvenience of losing land,” Robinson said. “And unfortunately, successful this situation, the proprietor is deceased and determination isn’t immoderate known owner.”

Many successful the vicinity enactment the plan.

“I deliberation it’s great, it’s bully for the kids to beryllium safe,” Antonio Quiroz said.

Advocates accidental little than 20% of kids locomotion to schoolhouse and that contributes to increasing puerility obesity rates. Sacramento’s extremity is to person these caller sidewalks acceptable by the autumn of 2022.

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“I’m blessed for them due to the fact that they’re walking harmless to schoolhouse and that’s good,” Quiroz said.