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Latest letters from Citrus Heights Sentinel readers include varying opinions regarding city streets, future hotel parking concerns, and feral cats.
State of city streets:
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If you think driving a car on the horrible streets in and around Citrus Heights is bad, try it in the back of an ambulance on the way to Mercy San Juan Hospital. Already in pain, the ride escalated the pain by ten-fold. So do the right thing Citrus Heights and fix our roads, they have been bad for years! Madison, Dewey, San Juan, horrible!
— Kim Davis, Citrus Heights resident
Future hotel parking concerns:
I wanted to comment on the article published today, 5/26/24, on the approval by the city council for a proposed hotel to be built at Sunrise Mall and Commissioner Andrew Van Duker’s concern about parking. I agree with him that the parking will greatly impact the overall feel of the mall unless they build a parking structure that can accommodate 110 spaces and the equivalent of space for the amount of employees hired to staff the hotel. As Community Development Director Casey Kempenaar stated AB 2097 prohibits enforcement of minimum parking standards within 1/2 mile of the site so my question is: When there is an event that draws large crowds how will the venue accommodate parking and what will the impact be on local neighborhoods to absorb the traffic? Punting that issue down the line, as Patrick Ellwood, owner of Ellwood Commercial Properties, suggested is a poor way to plan for future traffic impact, particularly since there is ongoing development within a mile of the mall adding additional traffic to local streets. I would suggest that the traffic impact be included in the initial approvals to mitigate any future conflicts with other development that is planned in the overall Sunrise Tomorrow Specific Plan. I don’t know what the foorprint size is that is proposed but I surmise it will require at least 1/2 acre for a 3-story hotel to accommodate 110 rooms and the associated parking for employees. The area is already impacted during peak hours and is a throughfare to Roseville so unless they plan on widening Sunrise to accommodate the additional traffic, I vote that we bring all these considerations to the table at the onset and not allow developers to impose their good intentions on the community.
— Beth Mergens, Citrus Heights resident
Feral cat concerns:
The city has millions to spend on a hotel near a derelict mall. A hotel that no one would stay in. Not near freeways, airports or decent restaurants. Millions but no money to help starving animals. CH has always been anti animal. Loves concrete pave-over and fast food joints. It is a dump.
— Gena Ensey, Citrus Heights resident
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