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Public commenter urges Sacramento Council to pursue public cemetery district on Meadowview land
Summary
A member of the public proposed establishing a public cemetery district on 50 acres of a 102-acre Meadowview site and asked the council to support a LAFCO application to create the district to provide lower-cost burials for city residents.
Mark Velasquez, a frequent public commenter who said some know him as “the cemetery guy,” urged the council to support a plan for a public cemetery district to provide lower-cost burials for Sacramento residents.
Velasquez told the council Sacramento has about 529,000 residents and said the city currently has “one non cemetery remaining,” which he identified as Odd Fellows, claiming that cemetery has about five years of sales remaining. He described the typical cost of a private burial and said: “$10,020.30, 40,000.” He said that kind of cost places private burial out of reach for many residents and that a public cemetery district would provide “cost effective burials.”
Velasquez proposed that 50 acres of a 102-acre parcel near Meadowview be used for a public cemetery district, with the remaining acreage used for affordable housing or parks. He said he has taken the proposal to LAFCO and is seeking the council’s support to file a formal application: “In the end, I will need this council to put an application at LAFCO.”
The comments were made during the public comment portion of the meeting; no council action on the proposal was recorded in the transcript. Council members did not take up the request for formal referral during the meeting.
