South Sacramento CP

Sacramento County Community Plans
South Sacramento Community Plan

Adopted December 6, 1978
Adopted by Resolution 1978-1431

The South Sacramento area is a portion of and south of the City of Sacramento. The plan area is about 29 square miles and its boundaries for the purpose of this report are: Fruitridge Road on the north, the Western Pacific Railroad Company tracks on the west, Elk Grove - Florin Road on the east, and Calvine Road, Sheldon Road and the City limits on the south. Additionally, an area called “The Fruitridge Pocket” is included in the study area. “The Pocket” is an unincorporated area north of Fruitridge Road that extends to 14th Avenue. Within the community area is a great diversity of special districts such as fire, water, schools, etc., which may or may not have a direct relationship to the plan area’s boundary. The South Sacramento area is not a completely separate, identifiable community. Rather, it is a loose confederation of small neighborhoods which focus around the major thoroughfares, shopping centers and places of employment within the area.

South Sacramento or portions of it are best described as a suburban city. While some of these areas are not incorporated, they have the appearance of a city. (The best example, of course, is the major shopping area along Florin Road from Franklin Boulevard east to Stockton Boulevard, with its back-up residential areas.)

The South Sacramento community has some 62,700 persons in 1975, and has many features of what might be called a balanced city. For example, major shopping areas including community, regional and super regional centers are located within the area. There are industrial areas with both large and small industries such as Campbell Soup, Sacramento Army Depot and Keyes Fibreboard Plant. There are two major and one minor railroad lines, a freeway, and a largely completed major street network in the developed northerly two thirds of the study area providing access to nearly all areas of the community and the metropolitan Sacramento Area.

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