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Parks are the gems in our Park City, so it’s important we continue to improve them and ensure they are meeting our needs and expanding to connect us to nature and recreational opportunities to keep us active. The City is launching a Master Plan Update and looking for your input through September. Please take aContinue reading “Park Master Plan”

The best art festival of the year is here with WideOpenWalls already half over! New murals going up around town to add to the treasure hunt of visual delight in our city! With indoor activities curtailed this is a great time to go on a mural hunt – the website has an interactive map forContinue reading “Wide Open Walls”

How do you get people who aren’t very interested in the outdoors involved in the Park City movement? Maybe a bird feeder competition. One of the Park City folks on a recent call shared how he met with a bunch of gamers and IT professionals and they all decided to get bird feeders and areContinue reading “Bird Feeder Fun”

If you are in South Sacramento there is a great new opportunity to improve your urban forest! The Sacramento Tree Foundation has $5,000 grants that can help you get started on a NeighborWoods project that can involve your neighbors, beautify the area, engage youth, and be a lot of fun! The application has ideas forContinue reading “Tree Projects”

It’s the largest gem in our park system by far, so when County Parks asks for input, we better respond (in spite of our last post!) They are working on a Natural Resource Management Plan that will guide new state bond investments through the Lower American River Conservancy. The Lower Parkway sure needs it andContinue reading “Parkway Survey”

One of the core values we want Sacramento Park City to build from is inclusion. The movement needs to transfer power to the areas of our city that have the greatest needs to feel like a park and to the people that live and work there. We are looking for people to lead the effortContinue reading “Where to invest”

Great trees define Sacramento – the City of Trees. Our citizens have been planting and tending the urban forest for over a century and the Sacramento Tree Foundation honored great contributors to our forest this year by telling their stories in a series of videos. Join us in honoring them and hearing their stories! C.K.Continue reading “2020 Tree Heroes”

Most people hardly notice the creeks in Sacramento. They’re mostly hidden in chanelized ditches behind suburban fences and feared for their potential to cause flooding. It makes me sad. Creeks have so much potential – what is better than creekside dining or a pleasant walks along the bank under the big trees that love theContinue reading “Why turn our back on creeks?”

Some spaces don’t seem like they are worth much attention. What good is a chain link fence along a schoolyard? Turns out that instead of spraying Round Up on it, it can become a vibrant attraction. This 2 block section of V Street is now the Skinny Garden and is worth a visit! Check outContinue reading “Skinny Garden”

After being locked in for months we are looking to get out. To connect. Those of us whose income hasn’t changed haven’t spent and we are looking to invest. What if…. we had a list of projects that could put people and resources back to work quickly? Isn’t that what we want to do –Continue reading “What if…. we had projects ready and ripe for when we come out of lockdown?”