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Commentary: Mayor Misses Opportunity on Call to Action on Critical Issues

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 07, 2020
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Commentary: Mayor Misses Opportunity on Call to Action on Critical Issues

We can debate over whether the city is headed in the right or wrong direction, I suppose. The mayor pres ...

We can debate over whether the city is headed in the right or wrong direction, I suppose. The mayor presented what I would consider an overly rosy view of the city. He did offer the caveat that “it’ ...

February 07, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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My View: But Was It Legal?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 11, 2020
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My View: But Was It Legal?

As we reported earlier this week, the so-called “Freedom to Park” initiative fell short of the required 3 ...

As we reported earlier this week, the so-called “Freedom to Park” initiative fell short of the required 3938 signatures needed to qualify. A statement from the organizers indicated “we are going to r ...

January 11, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Freedom to Park Initiative Fails to Qualify

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 09, 2020
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Freedom to Park Initiative Fails to Qualify

An initiative led by Dan Urazandi of Bizarro World that would have prohibited paid parking and mandated a ...

An initiative led by Dan Urazandi of Bizarro World that would have prohibited paid parking and mandated an increase of 120 auto spaces failed to qualify for the ballot by the December 27 deadline. In ...

January 09, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Freedom to Park Initiative Doesn’t Make a Lot of Sense

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 27, 2019
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Commentary: Freedom to Park Initiative Doesn’t Make a Lot of Sense

Last spring, several years after the Davis Downtown Parking Advisory Task Force recommended we go to paid ...

Last spring, several years after the Davis Downtown Parking Advisory Task Force recommended we go to paid parking, the Davis City Council finally took up the issue. After pushback from downtown busin ...

December 27, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Freedom to Park Initiative

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 23, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Freedom to Park Initiative

by Diane Swann In a commentary in the Davis Enterprise regarding the Freedom to Park (FTP) Initiative, su ...

by Diane Swann In a commentary in the Davis Enterprise regarding the Freedom to Park (FTP) Initiative, supporters claimed that upon hearing all the facts many opponents were at least willing to put it ...

December 23, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Freedom to Park Might Be an Ironic Title

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 25, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Freedom to Park Might Be an Ironic Title

It kind of reminds me of the euphemistic title the “right to work,” but “freedom to park” is the title of ...

It kind of reminds me of the euphemistic title the “right to work,” but “freedom to park” is the title of the campaign opposing paid parking in the downtown – ironic because prohibiting the charging o ...

November 25, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Housing Issue Figures to Be Tricky to Thread the Needle

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 13, 2019
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Commentary: Housing Issue Figures to Be Tricky to Thread the Needle

A poll released over the summer showed that the top issue among Davis voters was the issue of affordabili ...

A poll released over the summer showed that the top issue among Davis voters was the issue of affordability of housing. We have seen some other polling that internally bears that out as well: afforda ...

November 13, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Members of the DPAC Reflect on the Downtown Plan and Experience

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 22, 2019
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Members of the DPAC Reflect on the Downtown Plan and Experience

Last week, after a multi-year process, the city came out with a Draft Downtown Plan. That of course mark ...

Last week, after a multi-year process, the city came out with a Draft Downtown Plan. That of course marks not the end of the process by which the city will adopt its Core Area Specific Plan, but rath ...

October 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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City Releases Draft of Downtown Plan and Code

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 17, 2019
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City Releases Draft of Downtown Plan and Code

This week the city released a draft of the Downtown Davis Specific Plan and a Draft Downtown Form-based C ...

This week the city released a draft of the Downtown Davis Specific Plan and a Draft Downtown Form-based Code. What follows will be a 90-day public review and comment period which ends on January 14, ...

October 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Can Housing Work in the Downtown?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 26, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Can Housing Work in the Downtown?

People are asking – why are we pushing for housing in the Davis Downtown? That’s a good question. There ...

People are asking – why are we pushing for housing in the Davis Downtown? That’s a good question. There are several answers to that. The first is that a lot of people think that housing is a critic ...

May 26, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Joint Commission Hears Fiscal Analysis of Davis Downtown Development

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 23, 2019
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Joint Commission Hears Fiscal Analysis of Davis Downtown Development

Matt Kowta presented his fiscal analysis of whether development in the downtown is viable to a joint comm ...

Matt Kowta presented his fiscal analysis of whether development in the downtown is viable to a joint commission with the Planning Commission, joined by members of the Finance and Budget Commission as ...

May 23, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: How Our Downtown Plan Measures Up

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 14, 2019
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Commentary: How Our Downtown Plan Measures Up

Davis has been moving closer to a draft Downtown Plan that figures to transform the downtown – just how m ...

Davis has been moving closer to a draft Downtown Plan that figures to transform the downtown – just how much is open to debate and some believe that the plan we are developing is pretty radical while ...

May 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Can the Community Support Dense Residential and Mixed-Use in the Downtown?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 08, 2019
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Commentary: Can the Community Support Dense Residential and Mixed-Use in the Downtown?

Last week the Davis Downtown Plan Advisory Committee (DPAC) met to consider a number of recommendations t ...

Last week the Davis Downtown Plan Advisory Committee (DPAC) met to consider a number of recommendations that could form the basis for a draft Downtown Plan. Among their recommendations in general was ...

May 08, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Downtown Committee Meets to Consider Options for New Downtown Specific Plan

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 01, 2019
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Downtown Committee Meets to Consider Options for New Downtown Specific Plan

One of the big questions facing the community as we draw to the end of the current RHNA (Regional Housing ...

One of the big questions facing the community as we draw to the end of the current RHNA (Regional Housing Needs Allocation) cycle is where housing will go in the future, given limitations on developin ...

May 01, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Parking, Fluoridation, Green Waste – What Davis Can’t Seem to Get Right

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 27, 2019
| (37) Comments

Commentary: Parking, Fluoridation, Green Waste – What Davis Can’t Seem to Get Right

When I started the Vanguard – 13 years ago this coming July – I had the premise of the “dark underbelly” ...

When I started the Vanguard – 13 years ago this coming July – I had the premise of the “dark underbelly” of Davis. The idea was that beneath the veneer of progressive enlightenment was this darker co ...

March 27, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Council Finds Middle Ground Adding Paid Parking in Lots, but Not on Surface Streets

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 26, 2019
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Council Finds Middle Ground Adding Paid Parking in Lots, but Not on Surface Streets

It turned out that none of the four members of the Davis City Council were ready to add paid parking on t ...

It turned out that none of the four members of the Davis City Council were ready to add paid parking on the streets, and so they created a compromise on Monday that added paid parking for four surface ...

March 26, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Does Davis Believe in Science?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 25, 2019
| (51) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Does Davis Believe in Science?

As we move toward a decision on paid parking, it is disconcerting the extent to which Davis, home of a wo ...

As we move toward a decision on paid parking, it is disconcerting the extent to which Davis, home of a world class university, ignores science and scientific methods when it serves its purpose. We ma ...

March 25, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Davis Ace Sale Not about Parking Policies

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 25, 2019
| (2) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Davis Ace Sale Not about Parking Policies

This past week, the owners of Davis Ace announced that they would be selling their longtime store. This ...

This past week, the owners of Davis Ace announced that they would be selling their longtime store. This is of course a big deal in Davis. In the article in the Enterprise, local Jennifer Anderson sa ...

March 25, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Is Now the Time to Implement Paid Parking?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 24, 2019
| (13) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Is Now the Time to Implement Paid Parking?

One of the big questions we asked back during the Trackside debate was – even if you believe that Tracksi ...

One of the big questions we asked back during the Trackside debate was – even if you believe that Trackside should go to four stories – should it have been approved at that time or was it better to wa ...

March 24, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Downtown Entreats Council to Reject Parking Meters

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 21, 2019
| (15) Comments

Guest Commentary: Downtown Entreats Council to Reject Parking Meters

by Dan Urazandi The history of paid parking in Davis has unfolded outside my store window. From here, the ...

by Dan Urazandi The history of paid parking in Davis has unfolded outside my store window. From here, the center of downtown and the maelstrom of the debate on paid parking, I can see the cause of par ...

March 21, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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