Protecting Our Neighborhood

Ensuring Transparency and Truth in City Decisions

Dear Mayor McCarty,

As Sacramento residents, we share your commitment to compassion and creative housing solutions for those in need. We also believe that compassion must be paired with clarity, transparency, and respect for the communities you serve.

That’s why we are deeply concerned about the proposed 40-bed tiny home project planned for the vacant parcel off Arena Blvd near El Centro. What troubles us most isn’t the idea of helping people — it’s the way this project is being handled.

When truth is bent, trust breaks.

Recent public statements — including the claim that this location is not within a flood zone — have proven inaccurate. Inaccurate information, presented as fact, erodes the public’s confidence and violates the very principle of good governance.

This area is home to quiet, well-kept neighborhoods and an elementary school. Families here have invested their lives, their safety, and their hope in this community. We deserve a process that honors that.

Sacramento has abundant vacant land far better suited for transitional housing projects. Why choose one of the few parcels surrounded by established family neighborhoods and a 55+ senior community — both of which were never consulted?

The artist renderings depict lush greenery and a serene gated landscape. Yet anyone familiar with the site knows that, beyond that fence, lies not an open park but a living, breathing neighborhood. People — not props in a political illustration.

This isn’t about opposing support for the unhoused. It’s about insisting on integrity — ensuring that decisions are made with the community, not to it.

Mr. Mayor, leadership requires the courage to face the people you serve — before, not after, decisions are made. We are asking for:

• A full public hearing with verified environmental and zoning data.
• A transparent disclosure of all proposed uses for this site, present and future.
• A moratorium on development until meaningful consultation with residents has occurred.

We invite you to partner with us — not by decree, but by dialogue.

Because real compassion never hides behind closed doors.