5PM City Council [Updated 04/25/2022 @ 11:28 a.m.]
Meeting Time: 04-26-22 17:00
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8. Ordinance Amending Section 12.72.060 and Adding Chapter 12.104 of the Sacramento City Code, Relating to the Old Sacramento Docks (Passed for Publication 04/19/2022; Published 04/22/2022) [Two-Thirds Vote Required] File ID: 2022-00845
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19. Quarterly Climate Update File ID: 2022-00813 7 3 0 4 Public Comments-Matters Not on the Agenda 1 0 0 1
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Agenda Item: eComments for 8. Ordinance Amending Section 12.72.060 and Adding Chapter 12.104 of the Sacramento City Code, Relating to the Old Sacramento Docks (Passed for Publication 04/19/2022; Published 04/22/2022) [Two-Thirds Vote Required] File ID: 2022-00845
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Davi Rodrigues
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Submitted At: 10:43am 04-23-22
Davi Rodrigues
PO Box 160965
Sacramento, CA 95816
[email protected]
It came to my attention the city would like to pass an ordinance relating to the city docks. While most of that ordinance seems worthy, a section of it states that it will prohibit fishing from the public docks. The state constitution, article I, section 25 expressly forbids passing laws prohibiting fishing from, and on the public lands of the state, and grants only the state legislature the power to set conditions and seasons for fishing. A later amendment to the state's constitution gave the latter authority to the Fish and Game Commission. Since then, the commission has formulated a process for opening and closing areas to fishing, and that involves public meetings where the whole of the state is notified and can participate. Fishing is a statewide resource, and the state legislators framed that amendment so that the state would occupy the management of it.
Please remove that portion of the ordinance
Agenda Item: eComments for 19. Quarterly Climate Update File ID: 2022-00813 Overall Sentiment
Anne Stausboll
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Submitted At: 11:26am 04-26-22
In June 2020 the Mayors' Commission on Climate issued a clear roadmap for addressing the impacts of climate in our city. Almost two years have gone by and the city still has not demonstrated that addressing climate change is a priority. The city has not developed its climate action plan, and the proposed budget released yesterday makes it clear that addressing the impacts of climate is not a priority. The transition to a clean, healthy, and equitable city should be front and center in the city's planning and budgeting. The stakes couldn't be any higher and soon we will be out of time. The council must provide staff with the resources urgently needed to get the climate action plan in place, and must start prioritizing climate in its planning and budgeting.
Anne Stausboll, Chair, Mayors' Commission on Climate Change Muriel Strand
Location: 95820, Sacramento
Submitted At: 9:26am 04-26-22
I expect that the city's CAP assumes that we can graft our fossil fuel lifestyles onto PVs, windmills, and batteries.
However, it's my engineering opinion that this won't work. Fossil fuel energy is several hundred times cheaper than humanpower. Thus, price signals mislead people into making inaccurate choices about what's actually needed for real decarbonization. Electrification will not be enough; social engineering is needed. (Also, electronic controls have a habit of failing and replacements are often very pricey.) Since the city cannot even figure out how to permanently house the homeless, we will be completely unprepared when climate refugees really start coming.
More info:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256048802_Sustainable_Investment_Means_Energy_Independence_F rom_Fossil_Fuels
and
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333581837_Is_it_true_that_'Small_Is_Beautiful' Chris Brown
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Submitted At: 9:09am 04-26-22
By melding the timeline for the CAP and Genral Plan updates the urgency to deal with the Climate Emergency is being diluted. We will undoubtedly see temperature extremes and wildfires in California this year with impacts on our air quality as well as potentially more catastrophic impacts depending on the location of these. Sacramento is the capital city of California and showed some leadership role we should play in the 2019 decisions to declare climate emergency and set a goal of GHG neutrality by 2030 with cooperation of others. But we are now behind both SMUD and the County in addressing the climate emergency. They are the help the City's declaration was looking for, and we need to accelerate the City's actions on climate. Tonight's report indicates that the next workshop on accelerating climate action will not be till summer at the earliest, and that the plan resulting from February's transportation workshop will not be complete until 2023. Please demand better.
Susan Herre, President of ECOS
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Submitted At: 7:42am 04-26-22
ECOS urges the City in its CAAP to portray the entire path of greenhouse gas reductions from the present 3.4M MTCO2e to carbon neutrality in an estimated year. If future projects are to be relieved of evaluating their GHG emissions impacts because the projects are deemed consistent with a CEQA-qualified plan, then the CAAP must show how the path to carbon neutrality will be achieved. Sacramento can be a leader in sustainable and equitable growth and reducing of GHG emissions. The concept of integrating land use and transportation is still right today.
The key is to implement it. Therefore, ECOS urges the City to use SacRT’s transit system as the backbone for a whole network of development and active transportation. This approach offers much potential for building community and transit ridership, increasing housing and equity, reducing GHG emissions and VMT, preserving open space, and attracting federal grants.
Luke Wilson
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Submitted At: 9:37pm 04-25-22
I am very concerned that your CAP is now a year late in arriving. Every time this important business is postponed the targets that you have embraced become harder to realize. Y our staff is doing good work but needs more help. Please add to the budget for this important work.
Y our new budget does not have the funding necessary to finish the CAP and to provide matching funding for potential federal and other grants. Without an adequate budget you will fall another year behind your professed goal to implement actions to back up your approval of the Climate Commission's work of almost two years ago.
Please budget adequately for this important work.
Luke Wilson
Laurie Litman
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Submitted At: 2:46pm 04-25-22
I support a bold, timely, and groundbreaking Climate Action Plan (CAP) but we aren't seeing that, are we? The current CAP update is long overdue and still lacks the political support to do the job right. As you kick the can down the road over and over again, be aware that your constituents are facing existential crises (ones that can kill us), including extreme heat, lack of food and water, diseases, and so many other threats as a result of your inaction. The Council has the opportunity to show what an authentic CAP can be, one that recognizes the sheer scale of these threats and uses all the tools we have to address the climate crisis. We need you to stop acting like business as usual is acceptable, prioritize the climate crisis and its related effects (including homelessness) in your budget, hire more staff, decarbonize across the city, and show other municipalities what is possible. It's in your court. No excuses.
Kathryn Webb
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Submitted At: 2:05pm 04-25-22
My name is Katy Webb with 350 Sacramento and I am writing in today to address how the Climate Action Plan is over a year late. We need transparency about why the CAP is being delayed, and it needs to be made public as soon as possible. The council needs to provide city staff with the resources to complete the CAP . Second, The CAP needs to include the recommendations unanimously supported in the Mayors’ Commission on Climate 202 report. Third, Budget discussions are upcoming. The city needs to set aside dollars this year as a match for federal grants and other potential funding sources. Without allocating these funds, the City will not receive funding for any of the transformative projects that Council supported in February. Next, Hire more city staff to work on climate projects. Finally, Governor Newsom is proposing significant funds toward decarbonization efforts in this year’s budget. Will the City of Sacramento also put money towards our decarbonization priorities? Thank you.
Agenda Item: eComments for Public Comments-Matters Not on the Agenda Overall Sentiment
Matthew Kessing
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Submitted At: 11:45am 04-22-22
This comment is for agenda item 20. Delta shores is a green-field development and the decision to not include off-street, segregated bike paths with connectors to the Sacramento River Bike Trail at the Freeport Regional Water Facility and the light rail station at Morrison Creek is really confusing, especially when viewed in context of the Council's stated commitment to active transportation as part of it's Climate Plan.
The bike infrastructure as provided on Consumes River Blvd is a striped gutter adjacent to three lanes of fast- moving Stroad, and shouldn't be considered acceptable. Without proper bike or pedestrian infrastructure to give these new single family houses access to existing active transportation networks, or new proposed light rail stations, all this development does is further entrench Sacramento's car dependence and all but guarantees that we'll miss our climate goals.
We need to do better.
Davi Rodrigues
PO Box 160965
Sacramento, CA 95816
(916) 761-3419
[email protected]
Office of Sacramento City Attorney
Susana Alcala Wood
915 I Street, 4th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814-2608
RE: Sacramento City Proposed Ordinance To Prohihibit Fishing From the Public Docks Title: (Pass for Publication) Ordinance Amending Section 12.72.060 and Adding Chapter 12.104 of the Sacramento City Code, Relating to the Old Sacramento Docks
Ms.Wood,
It came to my attention the city would like to pass an ordinance relating to the city docks. While most of that ordinance seems worthy, The last portion of it states that it will prohibit fishing from the public docks. The state constitution, article I, section 25 expressly forbids passing laws prohibiting fishing from and on the public lands of the state, and grants only the state legislature the power to set conditions and seasons for fishing. A later amendment to the state's constitution gave the latter authority to the Fish and Game Commission. Since then, the commission has formulated a process for opening and closing areas to fishing, and that involves public meetings where the whole of the state is notified and can participate. Fishing is a statewide resource, and the state legislators framed that amendment so that the state would occupy the management of it. It was signs and prohibitions at the local level that inspired it in the first place. I urge you to counsel the city to remove this part of the ordinance before its' adoption. I have been engaged attempts to block fishing areas for a couple decades, although it's pretty much limited to private owners thus far. I didn't think a municipality would attempt this. The only recent attempt at this happened during the outset of the Covid-19 scare, and several municipalities had asked the Fish and Game Commission to close their popular fishing areas to prevent the spread of the virus.
That attempt was met with outright hostility from many fisherman, and in that, it had at least a semi plausible reason, but many felt that exceeded the commission's power, having been created solely to manage the resource. Sacramento City has not cited a single reason for doing so, not that they have the authority anyway.
I hope you understand, and again urge the city council to omit that portion of the ordinance Sincerely,
Davi Rodrigues