Safe, Equitable, Inclusive, and Just City

Do you support these strategies to make Sacramento a more safe, equitable, inclusive, and just city?
Big & Bold Strategy 1: Establish and maintain ongoing channels of dialogue so that residents of all ages, including youth, have a regular forum for highlighting their priorities.
The City could explore ways to engage residents and civic groups from underserved communities in City processes. This could involve dedicating additional resources to the Community Engagement Division, including new staff with multi-lingual skills. Dialogue would occur through multiple forms of communication, including regular in-person meetings and social media.

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* 1. Would you support this strategy?

Big & Bold Strategy 2: Partner with other government agencies and community-based organizations to increase sales of healthy foods in underserved neighborhoods, and develop and implement new healthy food regulations.
This strategy proposes multiple actions to expand access to healthy food, including:
  • Help set up more community gardens, urban farms, and other urban agriculture facilities in areas with fewer grocery stores and private yards;
  • Promote and reduce barriers for temporary community markets;
  • Find new locations for regular food sales in areas without access to healthy food;
  • Repurpose older buildings throughout the city for food operations and sales;
  • Make City-owned properties such as library parking lots or parks available for vendors to sell fresh produce or homemade foods;
  • Explore incentives to attract grocery stores or assist food co-ops;
  • Work with convenience stores, discount stores, or other neighborhood retailers to sell fresh foods in underserved areas;
  • Encourage the location of healthy food establishments near schools;
  • Make sure that all certified farmer’s markets accept EBT (CalFresh or SNAP program, formerly known as Food Stamps), and the California WIC Card (the California program that provides food assistance to pregnant and nursing women and children age five and under);;
  • Expand urban agriculture programs in private yards, multifamily buildings, and parking spaces.

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* 2. Would you support this strategy?

Big & Bold Strategy 3: Use an equity framework to prioritize and fund infrastructure improvements in historically disinvested and underserved neighborhoods.
This strategy could help bring benefits to underserved neighborhoods, including increased park access, better sidewalks and paths, better bike lanes, safer routes to school, better transit and active transportation supportive investments, improved prospects for private investment, and a safe water supply.

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* 3. Would you support this strategy?

Big & Bold Strategy 4: Strengthen home repair and accessibility assistance to low-income households.
The City could work with the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency (SHRA) and community based organizations, to expand building maintenance and emergency repair assistance programs and ensuring that rents aren’t raised as a result of repair assistance. Additionally, the City could prioritize assistance to low-income residents including seniors, who may need ramps, grab bars, widened doorways, or other modifications to help them stay in their homes.

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* 4. Would you support this strategy?

Big & Bold Strategy 5: Consider annexing the Fruitridge Florin study area to consolidate and provide city services to that community.
Surrounded on three sides by incorporated areas of Sacramento, residents in the Fruitridge Florin study area currently receive many City services, including police and fire department support. However, this area does not have municipal representation or all the City services available. Annexing the Fruitridge Florin study area could help deliver City services to the area more efficiently, and help residents benefit from City programs. Currently, neighborhoods within the Fruitridge Florin study area have some of the highest levels of drinking-water contamination, asthma, low birth-weights, poverty, and unemployment in the state.

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The Fruitridge Florin study area, in the southeast area of Sacramento, has some of the highest concentrations of poverty on Sacramento

map of concentrated areas of poverty by census tract area

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* 5. Would you support this strategy?

Big & Bold Strategy 6: Track levels of health disparities in our underserved communities to measure effectiveness of implemented strategies.
To see how effective all the General Plan’s strategies are at addressing health disparities, the City could track the health of underserved communities over time. These metrics will help the City’s different departments to work together to ensure everyone has access to services, open space, healthy foods, and clean water and air.

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* 6. Would you support this strategy?

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* 7. Here are some other strategies that could make Sacramento a safe, equitable, inclusive, and just city. Which of these strategies would you support?

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* 8. Do you have any other comments about this topic?

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