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Partnership for Active
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c/o WALKSacramento
909 12th St., #122
Sacramento CA 95814

916-446-9255/WALK

Community Design

Development Review

In the past year, the Partnership for Active Communities has reviewed and worked with development teams and City staff to improve 33 new projects in the Natomas area (and also continued work on 64 projects from previous years).

These projects cover over 1,400 acres and will include 6,840 housing units.  The total projects reviewed now reaches over 90 covering 3,626 acres with 19,881 housing units.
 

Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

On a beautiful November 2006 morning, nineteen people took a walk in Oak Park. They came together to assess the pedestrian friendliness of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard (MLK), but the walk ended up being about much more. Oak Park residents and friends developed a vision of a street that truly honors the man for which it is named by creating opportunities for learning and interaction. The group walked MLK from Broadway to 14th Avenue. Another diverse group of residents and friends of Oak Park gathered in January to walk MLK from 14th Avenue to Fruitridge Road.

bullet Recommendations: MLK Jr. Blvd

Rancho Cordova / south Sacramento

In February 2006 two school communities in Rancho Cordova came together with walkability expert Dan Burden to look at ways to make their community a safer place.

Here are the findings: 

bullet Recommendations: Rancho Cordova

Later, the Partnership and Dan Burden reviewed Pacific Elementary School in south Sacramento.

bullet Recommendations: Pacific Elementary

Natomas

From Thursday, October 20 to Monday, October 24, 2005, community members at Natomas Park, Bannon Creek and Jefferson Elementary Schools took part in an engaging and interactive series of workshops to identify opportunities & needs, and create solutions to important community walkability issues. 

Community members, including students, conducted walkability tours with community design advocates, and school district and city staff, to see ways to improve the safety of our neighborhoods. 

The tours were reported by Channel 10 television.

Dan Burden led the reviews.  Many of his recommendations were included in school bond Measure D approved by Natomas (Sacramento) voters at the June 2006 primary election.
 
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Recommendations: Natomas
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In November 2006, the Natomas School Board committed $1,000,000 in Measure D funds to implement the recommendations at three Natomas schools.
 

Events and Activities

Spring Into Fitness!! (2006)

On Friday, May 12, 2006, the Traffic Tamers at  Bannon Creek Elementary School threw a party promoting and celebrating fun and active living!

bulletRead all about it!
 

Sidewalk Symposium (2005)

bulletMore to come