As you may know, for the past eight years Mogavero Notestine Associates has been actively engaged in Park[ing] Day, which is an annual event which helps to bring attention to the benefit of parks in our community through the creation of short-term parklets, which last for only one day: over the years we’ve been involved it has become a much larger, more energized event – and now the City Council will be considering issuing permits to business owners for longer-term parklets.
A parklet is most commonly a low deck installed in two or three adjacent parking spaces, with seating and decorative elements and often bike parking, too. Not only does this beneficially transform the use of land, but it also creates usable, human space for an environmentally sound, pedestrian friendly community. For the past 25 years, MNA has been trying to activate our neighborhood sidewalks, and we feel that this is a great method to accomplish this.
We hope these parklets will enable business communities to help foster Sacramento’s continuing evolution into a more pedestrian/bicycle friendly place, while benefiting not only the environment, but their bottom lines, by adding not just activated foot traffic, but happier people, more ready to buy services and goods.
– Morgan
