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Commentary: Student Housing and Commercial Space Post-COVID

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 17, 2020
| (18) Comments

Commentary: Student Housing and Commercial Space Post-COVID

By David M. Greenwald I keep seeing people projecting that COVID will have a permanent impact on things l ...

By David M. Greenwald I keep seeing people projecting that COVID will have a permanent impact on things like student housing and UC Davis enrollment. All of this of course is subject to change, but ri ...

September 17, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (18) Comments

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Webinar: Economic Development and Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 14, 2020
| (1) Comment

Webinar: Economic Development and Davis

Join us on September 29 at noon for a free discussion on the future of Davis Davis has been talking about ...

Join us on September 29 at noon for a free discussion on the future of Davis Davis has been talking about building an innovation center for over a decade. How does a center benefit the community? Will ...

September 14, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (1) Comment

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Guest Commentary: DISC Opportunity to Reduce Impacts on Region

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 09, 2020
| (14) Comments

Guest Commentary: DISC Opportunity to Reduce Impacts on Region

by Kevin Wolf Proposed housing and business projects should be measured by their bioregional and global i ...

by Kevin Wolf Proposed housing and business projects should be measured by their bioregional and global impacts, not just over parochial concerns such as traffic, views, and parking. The DISC business ...

September 09, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Measure B Kicks Off with Rally Featuring Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry, Mayor Partida and Others

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 03, 2020
| (33) Comments

Measure B Kicks Off with Rally Featuring Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry, Mayor Partida and Others

By David M. Greenwald In years past when campaigns have kicked off it was the time for rallies, festiviti ...

By David M. Greenwald In years past when campaigns have kicked off it was the time for rallies, festivities and speeches, but during times of COVID, the Measure B team pushing for the passage of the D ...

September 03, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Yes on Measure B Campaign Kickoff this Wednesday Featuring Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry & Mayor Gloria Partida

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 31, 2020
| (10) Comments

Yes on Measure B Campaign Kickoff this Wednesday Featuring Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry & Mayor Gloria Partida

Special to the Vanguard The campaign to approve the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus (DISC), Ye ...

Special to the Vanguard The campaign to approve the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus (DISC), Yes on Measure B, is hosting their virtual campaign kickoff this Wednesday, September 2nd at 6 PM ...

August 31, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (10) Comments

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Analysis: Looking at the Case against DISC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 28, 2020
| (21) Comments

Analysis: Looking at the Case against DISC

By David M. Greenwald With the election coming up in just over two months, and ballots dropping in early ...

By David M. Greenwald With the election coming up in just over two months, and ballots dropping in early October, about five weeks away, it is good to start an in-depth look at the issue of the Davis ...

August 28, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (21) Comments

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Game-Changing Agtech Innovation Company Myfloradna Opens in Davis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 29, 2020
| (2) Comments

Game-Changing Agtech Innovation Company Myfloradna Opens in Davis

Cutting-edge technology will save breeders time, money and risk to crops Davis’ push for high tech econom ...

Cutting-edge technology will save breeders time, money and risk to crops Davis’ push for high tech economic development got a big boost this week from a company already located in Davis which helped d ...

July 29, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Unanimous Council Puts DISC on the Ballot for November

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 08, 2020
| (43) Comments

Unanimous Council Puts DISC on the Ballot for November

There are no guarantees in Davis politics — Nishi learned that in 2016 when a unanimous vote by the Counc ...

There are no guarantees in Davis politics — Nishi learned that in 2016 when a unanimous vote by the Council still ended up with a project rejection. But the Council and developers lifted the Davis In ...

July 08, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (43) Comments

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Commentary: The Innovation Center Moves into a Stronger Position

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 02, 2020
| (26) Comments

Commentary: The Innovation Center Moves into a Stronger Position

Last week it seemed that DISC (Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus) would probably face a lot st ...

Last week it seemed that DISC (Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus) would probably face a lot stronger opposition than other recent projects. Now that’s not at all clear. Of the 67 people who ...

July 02, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (26) Comments

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Opposition to the Innovation Campus Dries Up, Council to Vote Next Week

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 01, 2020
| (4) Comments

Opposition to the Innovation Campus Dries Up, Council to Vote Next Week

If public comment were a match between two prized fighters, they would have stopped it long before we got ...

If public comment were a match between two prized fighters, they would have stopped it long before we got to the end of it. In the end, 67 people spoke about the Davis Innovation & Sustainability ...

July 01, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (4) Comments

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Commentary: Tonight Is the Night for DISC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 30, 2020
| (12) Comments

Commentary: Tonight Is the Night for DISC

Ten days ago, in our Saturday column “My View,” I argued that the council needed to get as many thorny is ...

Ten days ago, in our Saturday column “My View,” I argued that the council needed to get as many thorny issues off the table as possible. Since then, the city staff and developer have moved the projec ...

June 30, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (12) Comments

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Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus Will Go Before the Council on Tuesday

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 27, 2020
| (2) Comments

Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus Will Go Before the Council on Tuesday

Davis: It has been a long and time a contentious process, but on Tuesday, the council will get to weigh i ...

Davis: It has been a long and time a contentious process, but on Tuesday, the council will get to weigh in on the DISC (Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus) project in what figures to be the ...

June 27, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (2) Comments

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My View: Council Needs to Get As Many Thorny Issues Off the Table on DISC As Possible

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 20, 2020
| (33) Comments

My View: Council Needs to Get As Many Thorny Issues Off the Table on DISC As Possible

Davis – In 2016, the Davis City Council put Nishi on the ballot. It was a good project that would add st ...

Davis – In 2016, the Davis City Council put Nishi on the ballot. It was a good project that would add student housing while at the same time add 300,000 square feet of R&D space that the city des ...

June 20, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (33) Comments

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Commissioner Rowe’s Comments on DISC at the Planning Commission Meeting

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 19, 2020
| (23) Comments

Commissioner Rowe’s Comments on DISC at the Planning Commission Meeting

(Editor’s note: these are the comments from Greg Rowe on Wednesday night, speaking about the Davis Innova ...

(Editor’s note: these are the comments from Greg Rowe on Wednesday night, speaking about the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus). This is a really challenging project, it’s not like the others ...

June 19, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (23) Comments

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Planning Commission Unanimously Moves DISC Forward to Council

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 18, 2020
| (2) Comments

Planning Commission Unanimously Moves DISC Forward to Council

Despite concerns about a truncated policy, planning commissioners remarked that they had actually spent s ...

Despite concerns about a truncated policy, planning commissioners remarked that they had actually spent so much time on what is now known as the Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus that they ...

June 18, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (2) Comments

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Guest Commentary: Greater Sacramento Backs DISC As a Key to Regional Growth

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 16, 2020
| (7) Comments

Guest Commentary: Greater Sacramento Backs DISC As a Key to Regional Growth

By Barry Broome Few things help an economy recover faster than construction projects and the creation of ...

By Barry Broome Few things help an economy recover faster than construction projects and the creation of high wage jobs in a tradable industry sector. The residents of Davis can act as leaders in the ...

June 16, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (7) Comments

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Commentary: DISC Remains a Commercial Project with Housing, Not the Other Way Around

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 12, 2020
| (6) Comments

Commentary: DISC Remains a Commercial Project with Housing, Not the Other Way Around

When the city first issued its RFEI (Request for Expressions of Interest) for innovation centers way back ...

When the city first issued its RFEI (Request for Expressions of Interest) for innovation centers way back in 2013, we were living in a very different time. We had just come out of the Great Recessio ...

June 12, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (6) Comments

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Letter: UC Davis on Economic Development and DISC

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 12, 2020
| (6) Comments

Letter: UC Davis on Economic Development and DISC

RE: Regional Economic Recovery and Readiness by Mabel Salon (Editor's note: this was a letter from Mabel ...

RE: Regional Economic Recovery and Readiness by Mabel Salon (Editor's note: this was a letter from Mabel Salon to City Manager Mike Webb.) Throughout Yolo County, UC Davis supports the recent progress ...

June 12, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (6) Comments

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Planning Commission Hears Presentation, Listens to Huge Number of Public Commenters

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 11, 2020
| (12) Comments

Planning Commission Hears Presentation, Listens to Huge Number of Public Commenters

The Planning Commission decided relatively early that they would not attempt to make a decision on Wednes ...

The Planning Commission decided relatively early that they would not attempt to make a decision on Wednesday night. That’s because what turned out to be 100 people spoke (or more to the point, left m ...

June 11, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (12) Comments

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ASUCD Calling for New Housing and Jobs in Davis, Endorses DISC

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 10, 2020
| (5) Comments

ASUCD Calling for New Housing and Jobs in Davis, Endorses DISC

On Thursday, June 4th, the ASUCD Senate passed a resolution in support of the Davis Innovation and Sustai ...

On Thursday, June 4th, the ASUCD Senate passed a resolution in support of the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus (DISC), citing the limited amount of housing and jobs for undergraduates in Dav ...

June 10, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (5) Comments

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