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Originally Posted by creamcityleo79
I think the Sacramento PD will do a better job policing and preventing crime SE along the Stockton Blvd corridor. It's amazing it's not already part of the city!
As for Arden-Arcade, why are they NOT already part of Sacramento!? Their mailing address does not say Arden-Arcade, it says Sacramento! They should be with the city they identify with...and reap the benefits of being a part of something larger that would have probably prevented the area from going downhill in recent years/decades. What has the county done/invested in Arden-Arcade that has bettered it over the years!? Being a part of the city of Sacramento would be so much more appropriate and, IMO, better for the area!
If Sacramento annexed (as I believe it should) the areas of Arden Arcade, La Riviera, Rosemont, Parkway, Lemon Hill, Florin, and the weird unincorporated/non-CDP along Stockton Blvd (basically everyone who already has a Sacramento mailing address who is not in the city limits currenlty), Sacramento would be at it's rightful population of almost 700,000 (FINALLY bigger than Fresno) and have more influence over regional affairs (as it totally should as the core city).
Just my opinion...
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This has been discussed over on City Forums Sacramento, and for the record you are absolutely right.
Sacramento County is odd relative to other California counties in that it has so much "un-City", namely, so much urban and suburban area that is unincorporated. The only reason the city of Fresno is slightly larger than the city of Sacramento, in spite of Fresno being a much smaller metropolitan area, is that just about everything (sub)urbanized in Fresno County is either (1) the city of Fresno, or (2) the smaller city of Clovis next to Fresno.
For the record, I was part of a sadly doomed campaign to incorporate Arden-Arcade (2010 attempted), just as Citrus Heights (1997), Elk Grove (2000) and Rancho Cordova (2003) incorporated themselves.
Since Arden Arcade rejected cityhood in their own right, it certainly would be fine with me for Sacramento to annex them, especially as the city of Sacramento proper surrounds Arden Arcade on three sides, just about.