On Wednesday evening, about 60 people attended a two-hour presentation and at times vigorous discussion of the Mace Ranch Innovation Center. In part one, Dan Ramos and two of the members of his development team, Prakash Pinto and Josiah Cain, gave their presentation on Wednesday night. They would then be joined by Councilmember Rochelle Swanson and City Community Development Director Mike Webb.
The video was done by Civenergy and Bob Fung.
This is the introduction by Bob Fung and Vanguard Editor/ Founder David Greenwald.
Prakash Pinto presented the project description and walked everyone through the basics.Josiah Cain went into the details on the sustainability aspect
Greenwald is the founder, editor, and executive director of the Davis Vanguard. He founded the Vanguard in 2006. David Greenwald moved to Davis in 1996 to attend Graduate School at UC Davis in Political Science. He lives in South Davis with his wife Cecilia Escamilla Greenwald and three children.
I was in attendance and I can say that there were a number of us commenting who made clear our opposition to any housing at the MRIP for a number of reasons. Furthermore, there would be organized opposition against any housing at MRIP if the City Council made that terrible mistake.
This project was promised to be a “commercial only” project and to focus on bringing revenue to the City and housing would basically bring more costs, so it negates the reason for considering the innovation park. If they want to density it, well than they can fit in even more revenue producing commercial.
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I’m waiting to see the public comment section…
Me too, but I’m always skeptical of the people in attendance because it’s very easy for a developer to stack the audience.
I was in attendance and I can say that there were a number of us commenting who made clear our opposition to any housing at the MRIP for a number of reasons. Furthermore, there would be organized opposition against any housing at MRIP if the City Council made that terrible mistake.
This project was promised to be a “commercial only” project and to focus on bringing revenue to the City and housing would basically bring more costs, so it negates the reason for considering the innovation park. If they want to density it, well than they can fit in even more revenue producing commercial.