There's been a lot of controversy about this project recently. The mayor and two council members are suddenly having issues with the height and massing of the tower because it will block their views from their city hall offices of the historic capitol and cathedral buildings. They claim the concern is for the people of Sacramento, but all you have to do is walk the street yourself to realize these three are full of crap.
This, and other leadership blunders has even prompted one of the Sacramento forumers to pull papers to run for city council in his district. Go Brandon12!
Anyway, here's an article on it.
High Rise Builder Told To Scale Down Plans
Reporting
Steve Large
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ― The new big building designed for 10th and J Street in Sacramento is supposed to soar 400 feet into the sky, but the city council wants these plans to go back to the drawing board. They say the designs are too big, and as Mayor Heather Fargo says, too sleek.
One of the reasons that the site is so important to a lot of these city council members is because of the view that you can see out of the windows.
City councilman Steve Cohn says it isn't his view he's worried about, but the public's.
"In addition to city hall, you have a park right in front of city hall with a great view of our oldest cathedral at 11th and K," he says.
Mayor Fargo wants the design to look more like the Citizen Hotel across the street and the Elks Lodge down the block.
"Sacramento has a great mixture of old and new," Fargo says.
But Linda Whitney, president of the Sacramento Old City Association says, look around. It could fit right in with some of the high rises that have earned some unique nicknames.
"We have the Darth Vader building in the background, it was given that name because it came out about the same time as Star Wars," Whitney says.
Another one is named the lego building, another, the ban roll building. But for now, this new tower will have to be called "Banned By City Hall."
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There have also been many e-mails between a few forumers and the council pointing out their invalid concerns. One response even came back with the arrogant remark of "you just don't get it".
Maybe one of the Sacramento guys would like to post one of those e-mails?