A representative from HCD explained that, “We awarded five Enterprise Zones, instead of four, because the City of Sacramento has a current conditionally designated EZ that will be combined into their successful new application.”

The problem with this explanation, is that on January 6, 2009 HCD awarded final designation to the new Northern Sacramento zone, as you can see in this letter. So, we are still in search of a more technical explanation of how this worked.  In any case, at least we know that the Sacramento application became the”fifth” zone.