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Discarded shoes hang from a electrical line at the end of the court on 43rd Ave after crossing the walkway over highway 99 on Thursday afternoon in south Sacramento. The shoes signal a location where illegal drugs can be found. One of Sacramento County's most notoriously crime ridden neighborhoods is poised to become home to 50 new residents: federal parolees. Homeowners and other concerned residents are fighting the proposed "residential re-entry center," in which 50 parolees who served prison sentences for crimes including drug trafficking and burglary will live and learn "life skills" before being released into the community. The center, poised for approval from the county Planning Commission on Monday, would be located at Martin Luther King Boulevard and 43rd Avenue, in a neighborhood that The Bee featured as having the most gun crimes of any similarly sized area in the county. -
Janell Schindler (cq-age 33) and Jesus Molina (cq-age 33) of the Lemon Hill neighborhood collect signatures for a petition at Pacific Elementary school to stop Sacramento County's proposed halfway house at Martin Luther King Boulevard and 43rd Avenue. Sacramento County's most notoriously crime ridden neighborhoods is poised to become home to 50 new residents: federal parolees. Homeowners and other concerned residents are fighting the proposed "residential re-entry center," in which 50 parolees who served prison sentences for crimes including drug trafficking and burglary will live and learn "life skills" before being released into the community. The center, poised for approval from the county Planning Commission on Monday, in a neighborhood that The Bee featured as having the most gun crimes of any similarly sized area in the county. -
Janell Schindler of the Lemon Hill neighborhood collects a signature from Ken Fontes (cq-age 48) a resident of six months on 43rd Avenue. -
Lemon Hill resident Paula Woodward points out areas of concern on Martin Luther Kings Blvd near 43rd Ave on Thursday afternoon. -
Janell Schindler of the Lemon Hill neighborhood collects a signature from Ken Fontes a resident at the proposed halfway house at Martin Luther King Boulevard and 43rd Avenue. -
Janell Schindler (rt) and Debbie Webb Bunker of the Lemon Hill neighborhood are turned away as they solicit signatures for a petition against a proposed halfway house at the apartment complex of the proposed location at Martin Luther King Boulevard and 43rd Avenue. -
Janell Schindler of the Lemon Hill neighborhood looks over the complex of the proposed halfway house at Martin Luther King Boulevard and 43rd Avenue as she gathered signatures for a petition against the proposal. -
(l-r) Janell Schindler, Cindy Robinson, Paula Woodward, and Debbie Webb Bunker of the Lemon Hill neighborhood walk past the apartment complex (rt), of the proposed halfway house at Martin Luther King Boulevard and 43rd Avenue after collecting petition signatures on Thursday afternoon. -
Janell Schindler, Cindy Robinson, Paula Woodward, and Debbie Webb Bunker of the Lemon Hill neighborhood wait for motorcycles to pass as they cross the walkway that crosses highway 99 onto 43rd Ave after school on Thursday afternoon in south Sacramento, after collecting signatures for a petition to stop Sacramento County of the proposed halfway house at Martin Luther King Boulevard and 43rd Avenue.
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