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Home/Yolo/Yolo County to sell controversial West Sacramento property after neighborhood pushback

The house went unused for years after neighbors voiced concerns about how the county used it.

The Abridged version:

Halfway down a quiet residential street in West Sacramento, a single-family home owned by Yolo County sits empty.

Purchased by the Yolo County Housing Authority nearly two decades ago, the property was meant to provide temporary housing with supportive services for mental health clients. It did so for years, serving as one of West Sacramento’s transitional programs funded by the Mental Health Services Act.

But in 2019, a guest of one of the tenants at the property caused enough damage to the home that residents had to move out for repairs.

After that, neighbors, some of whom didn’t know how the property was being used, began expressing opposition to its placement.

Efforts at outreach and engagement failed, and the county eventually conceded.

“They shut it down,” said Paris Clay, who lives across the street.

Now, officials are taking steps to sell the house and use the proceeds to support other behavioral health programs.

“The West Sac facility has not really worked out,” Supervisor Oscar Villegas said during a late June board meeting.

Neighborhood opposition

Clay said the Southport neighborhood, known locally as Pheasant Hollow, is pretty well settled. Many on the block have lived there for years, raising kids who walk to school past tidy gardens on clean sidewalks.

The house across the street from his mostly flew under the radar with his neighbors.

“They wasn’t aware of what that was,” he said.

But some started having negative interactions with residents.

Clay said that one of his kids was followed home by a resident, unsettling both.

“It rattled me a little bit,” he said.

After the residents moved out for repairs, the county held a meeting with neighbors to discuss the property and its ongoing use as a transitional housing facility. Clay and others spoke out against it.

Now that they knew what the property was being used for, neighbors were “not going for it this time around,” he said.

After that, the house mostly sat empty, with someone coming by periodically to mow the lawn and trim the hedges.

It stayed like that for years, Clay said.

Selling the property

Supervisors voted last month to authorize the county’s purchase of the property in West Sacramento from the Yolo County Housing Authority for just over $38,000. Now that the home is officially back in county hands, it can be sold for more.

“The intent is to sell the property and try to find a location that is more suitable for the mental health needs that were described this morning,” said Villegas, referring to a public commenter who spoke of the need for behavioral health resources in Yolo County.

Officials said the county will use the money from the sale for other behavioral health programs in West Sacramento. But not at the property in Pheasant Hollow.

“At this time, the County does not plan to operate another program at the property,” said Will Arnold, spokesperson for Yolo County.

Daniel Hennessy is a reporter covering Yolo County for Abridged by PBS KVIE. He joined Abridged through the California Local News Fellowship.

A cause for the fire is not known and there are no reports on injuries yet. The West Sacramento Fire Department is yet to issue a statement on the situation.

Meanwhile, scary visuals of the fire were shared online.

A bright glow and heavy smoke could be seen from a distance. “Huge fire across from Lowe’s, numerous trucks on location. Heavy smoke throughout West Sac,” the local page noted.

The local page, which reports on West Sacramento events noted that Clarksburg fire is also on scene to help. It further noted the fire had been upgraded to a 2nd alarm fire, adding that it meant ‘west sac fire doesn’t have enough rigs or man power to contain it so they are calling agencies around to help.’

The page added that authorities were beginning to shut down ‘Southport parkway and industrial due to the fire getting close to the roads’ after the fire ‘jumped the road’ and was on the other side of the field, close to the port.

Some locals reacted to the reports of the fire in West Sacramento. One said “I saw this fire close to 6 on my way home and saw fire trucks across from Nugget, I thought maybe it was a control burn.”

Another asked if this meant that the fire had been burning since 6pm. However, there's no confirmation of the same. Yet another person put out a message for the responders, writing “God bless our firefighters.”

One fearfully asked “Should we be getting things ready to evacuate? Over by bridgeway island school,” while another checked if there were any updates. However, given the time of the night, there aren't many updates on the situation.

While it remains unclear if this blaze is the same as the Lake Fire in West Sacramento, a vegetation fire was also reported in the area of Thorp Road & Lake Washington Boulevard, in Yolo County. WatchDuty noted that the fire was at 0.5 acres at the time of writing.

It also reported “Southport Parkway is shut down between Ramco Street and Lake Washington Boulevard,” corresponding with the local page's report on road closures.

“A 2nd alarm vegetation fire response has been requested. Additionally, law enforcement has been requested for traffic control along Southport Parkway,” the site that tracks live fire outages, further reported, also corresponding with what the local page said about the West Sacramento situation.