There was a time when Davis was the environmental leader, the innovator.  But those days are long over.  Davis finds itself fighting some remarkably rear-end fights on issues like plastic bags where m ...

It was Councilmember Brett Lee who seemed to derail some of the discussion on the Single Use Carry-Out Bag ordinance, when he argued that the plastic bag ban was "misnamed." "It's a plastic bag ban if ...

A few years ago one of the more controversial proposals was a green waste containerization plan.  While the city implemented a brief pilot plan at the time, ultimately, community dissent led to the ci ...

Back in February, the Davis City Council directed staff to hold off on CEQA documentation to see what would happen at the state level with regard to the implementation of single use plastic bag legisl ...

Across the state, counties and cities have passed various ordinances against the provision of single-use plastic bags.  Those ordinances have also faced a series of legal challenges. Recently the Seco ...

Friday, January 25, 2013 marked the beginning of a one-month public review of the city's proposed ordinance for a plastic bag ban.  The city has prepared an Initial Study/Negative Declaration for the ...

It did not take long for a certain columnist to begin gloating over the demise of Zipcar.  Certainly it is somewhat understandable that not everyone would support the concept of car-sharing, but at th ...

Despite some early missteps by the city with regard to the Zipcar contract, and heavy criticism in particular by a prominent columnist of the local newspaper, Zipcar has been a heavily successful car ...

By Dan Oney A year after San Jose approved its Bring Your Own Bag ordinance; the City has released its initial findings on the plastic bag ban's effectiveness. And the city is trumpeting the program a ...

By Catherine Portman and Pam Nieberg Guest Comentary - As many local environmentalists recall, nesting burrowing owls at Mace Ranch were illegally disked into the ground in 2000. As part of the mitiga ...

"Before you light a wood fire at home this winter, you need to determine whether it is legal to do so," a city press release warns. Last week the council, by a 5-0 vote, implemented new mandatory wood ...

COMMENTARY: Council Ordinance Strikes the Right Balance Between Public Health and Privacy - The first time the issue of a wood burning ban came up back in January 2009, it became a tremendous point of ...

It took a while and council had to sort out competing views from the public - one group of whom expressed concern about the intrusion into their private lives, the other concerned about personal or pu ...

by Alan Pryor GUEST COMMENTARY - While many Davis residents are aware that the Davis City Council is considering a Staff recommendation on wood burning restrictions this Tuesday, few probably realize ...

It did not take long for Davis Enterprise columnist Bob Dunning to overreact to the proposed wood burning restrictions by the Davis City Council.  One would think the council was doing something radic ...

In a marked shift in policy, staff is moving away from past voluntary wood burning bans which largely failed and is now recommending that council adopt an urgency ordinance and introduce a regular ord ...

Dr. Tom Cahill has been working with the city since October on establishing guidelines for wood burning that will be based on solid scientific foundations that enable people's health issues to be addr ...

This morning residents in Davis wake up to more coverage of the Target issue. However, in marked contrast to the article two weeks ago in the Davis Enterprise, the Sacramento Bee and California Aggie ...

The headline reads:"Smoke Police Begin Crackdown on Newly Illegal Chimney Fires"The article goes on to say:Burn a log, go to jail.Not quite. But at noon Wednesday, it became illegal for residents of t ...

By Alan KandelNote: Alan Kandel did this article originally for the California Progress Report. Since this issue is coming on the city council's agenda for next week, it seemed like a good article to ...