[1] The Pocket-Greenhaven neighborhood is in the Southwest area of Sacramento which is now primarily populated by upper, upper-middle, and middle-class families.

Current Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (politician), a resident of Los Angeles County, maintains a home in the Greenhaven section of the district.

The California Air Pollution Control Officers Association's Executive Director Tung Le lives in the Pocket.

Before settlement, the Pocket-Greenhaven area was a riparian forest with woods of deciduous broad-leaves growing beside the river and streams in the bend.

The center of the bend is a few feet lower than sea level, and drainage was all toward the swampy, tule filled middle.

Before Europeans came, the Maidu Native American Indian tribe most likely inhabited the bend in the summer months when they could fish and hunt.

The majority of the inhabitants found in the area before its development were Portuguese immigrants from a group of islands called the Azores as well as Chinese.

Most were farmers who drained their farmland and produced lettuce, cabbage, grain, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, sugar beets, milo, spinach, and asparagus, and raised chickens, pigs and cows.

They celebrated the Holy Ghost festas annually, attended their community church, St. Mary's, every Sunday, and displayed a communal affection for a landscape that reminded them of their homeland.

The brickyard was strategically placed next to the river so bricks could be transported easily to downtown Sacramento and San Francisco.

After World War I, a sizeable Japanese population came to the bend and established a peaceful co-existence with the Portuguese community.

Before any subdivision could be approved by the city, however, Lincoln & Parker was required to present their proposed plan for the Pocket's entire 4,674 acres.

After this, the land was assessed and zoned urban even though it was still agricultural, causing higher property taxes for the farmers.

An advertisement from the same year recognizes Greenhaven 70 as "the start of tomorrow" and notes that this then-future community will present "a new and better way of living for the entire family."

The establishment of the Greenhaven Homeowners Association was formed to enforce the subdivision's restrictions, underground utility and telephone lines would be installed making it so no overhead wiring to homes or television antennas would be visible.

Streets were added on the west side of Seymore Park and building began on Lakeshore, Shoreline and Spingbrook Circles.

The plan for the area also included pedestrian bridges for the safety of school children and residents on thoroughfare streets such as Riverside Boulevard and the future Gloria Drive extension.

The proposed addition of the first apartment complexes in the late 1960s on the corners of Greenhaven Drive and extending East and West on Riverside Blvd.

was met with some opposition of homeowners even though they were included in original area plans, fearing they would detract from the safety and security that all had moved there to enjoy.

As homes continued to be built towards the south on Greenhaven Drive and Havenhurst Ave. a sub-area was coined called "Green Acres."

During the final stages of the building of the last homes on the subdivision's north side, By that time, the proposed shopping center for the subdivision had been revised, because the city council had decided to nullify this small shopping center in favor of the much larger Florin Mall on Florin Road.

The Greenhaven Marina, which was proposed in the subdivision's original plan, was later rejected by the Army Corps of Engineers, because of the need to cut into the levee, which would create a greater possibility of flooding in the area.

The old brickyard closed on January 3, 1971 due to encroaching suburban development and the selling of surrounding parcels which became Greenhaven Lake.

Because the greenbelt was not going to be enjoyed by all the residents who had planned on it for relaxation and entertainment purposes, the surveyor pegs for designated lots suddenly disappeared late one evening.

But an ongoing disappointment remained in the minds of those original residents who purchased lots in the subdivision and were promised this special place to relax and enjoy.

The Lake Association published a newsletter affectionately titled The Seagull which Dr. Bernard Kitt largely wrote and edited with an air of fun and conviviality and great humor.

In the mid 1970s, the section of I-5 which gave Greenhaven direct freeway access was completed with entrances and exits at Seamas & 43rd Aves.

1980s-1990s "The Pocket" The major building boom came to the neighborhood in the 1980's and early 90's with homes and subdivisions popping up yet further South and West, filling the entire "Pocket" with gated communities of custom built homes, duplexes, condominiums, apartment complexes, the addition of several parks, schools, small business and yet another private lake.

The Pocket-Greenhaven area is a dense suburban community which now completely fills the semi-circular bend of the Sacramento River.