New permits have been filed seeking the approval of a housing project proposed at 3311 Broadway in Oak Park, Sacramento. The project proposal includes the construction of a new four-story building offering housing.
A project applicant was not named on the permit. Information on the design team has not been revealed yet.
3311 Broadway, image via Google Satellite
The scope of work includes the construction of a four-story building offering 147 residential units. The unit capacity has increased from 130 units since our previous reporting. The structure height is not specified.
An SB330 preliminary application has been filed and is under review. Senate Bill 330, or SB 330, has been an important law to make it more difficult for city and town governments to stonewall the construction of new housing if it meets a certain level of affordable housing. As written in the law, SB 330, “prohibits a local agency from disapproving, or conditioning approval in a manner that renders infeasible, a housing development project for very low, low-, or moderate-income households or an emergency shelter unless the local agency makes specified written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record.”
The project site is a vacant parcel in the Fruitridge Broadway planning area within walking distance of Midtown. The estimated construction timeline has not been announced yet. The site is located near several bus stops. Residents will be twenty minutes from the regional light rail Gold Line.
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There isn’t a more perfect site (except perhaps the Railyards or the empty lot down Broadway at the old Tower Records site) for infill development in Sacramento. If the City doesn’t do everything in their power to get this applicant through the approval process in a timely manner I’ll be dumbfounded. This will be a great anchor for Oak Park and the Broadway corridor and I truly hope this developer has good intentions. And by the way, unrelated to this post, but what’s happening with the old Tower Records empty lot across from the Tower Theatre down at Land Park Dr.? How is that land owner allowed to demo the buildings on that corner and simply sit on it with ragged looking fencing and no action taking place at such a critical and important lot for the City across the street from the Tower Theatre? My goodness Sacramento get it together!
Little to no retail on the ground floor? For a small commercial district like the Broadway Triangle, omitting retail on the ground floor along Broadway hurts the tiny Triangle District’s small businesses and nearby residents. This large plot of land was the last hope for a grocery store in this notorious “food desert”. If this development lacks a retail small grocer or a produce market and deli on the ground floor, it will kill what is likely the last opportunity to extend the district by one more block, and to provide healthy food within walking distance for existing residents and all these new tenants. If 3311 is strictly residential, then not only will it have an uninviting wall of residential apartments looming over Broadway in what is a commercial district… but it will force tenants to drive to the grocery store (outside the district) every time they run out of basic foods like milk, oranges, etc. And because the development only allows for one parking place per unit, the extra 100-300ish residents will be parking on neighborhood streets. Where? All those extra cars and no walkable grocery store will add congestion and pollution on Broadway and neighboring streets. The pollution and traffic will stay be added to the district, but the revenue won’t. Scaling back back the residential units to allow for more parking for tenants and shop owners, and putting retail on the ground floor with a small to medium local grocer as the anchor would go a long way toward mitigating the high density proposed for this last large parcel of open land in the Triangle District.