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Sunday Commentary: It Appears Some People Will Object to Any Project

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 17, 2019
| (60) Comments

Sunday Commentary: It Appears Some People Will Object to Any Project

I didn’t know much about the Olive Drive Mixed-Use project when it was placed on the consent calendar to ...

I didn’t know much about the Olive Drive Mixed-Use project when it was placed on the consent calendar to approve the contract for its environmental review. But as I read it, I was impressed with the ...

November 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (60) Comments

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Council to Approve Environmental Analysis for Olive Drive Mixed-Use Project

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 16, 2019
| (35) Comments

Council to Approve Environmental Analysis for Olive Drive Mixed-Use Project

Mixed-Use Project Features 76 Small Single-Bedroom Apartments and Low Automobile Users In a consent item ...

Mixed-Use Project Features 76 Small Single-Bedroom Apartments and Low Automobile Users In a consent item for this week, council is asked to approve a resolution that would authorize Raney Planning to ...

November 16, 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
| (33) Comments

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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Council Approves Supplemental EIR to Study ARC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 08, 2019
| (18) Comments

Council Approves Supplemental EIR to Study ARC

On Tuesday, council pulled a consent item that authorized the city to spend around a quarter million doll ...

On Tuesday, council pulled a consent item that authorized the city to spend around a quarter million dollars on a Supplemental EIR (SEIR), with the costs reimbursed by the project applicant for the Ag ...

November 08, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (18) Comments

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City Puts Out Draft EIR of University Commons Project

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 07, 2019
| (16) Comments

City Puts Out Draft EIR of University Commons Project

This week the city announced the comment period for the Draft EIR of the University Commons Redevelopment ...

This week the city announced the comment period for the Draft EIR of the University Commons Redevelopment Project. The public has until December 20 to comment on the Draft EIR of the proposed project ...

November 07, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (16) Comments

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Monday Morning Thoughts: What’s Appropriate for Consent

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 04, 2019
| (12) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: What’s Appropriate for Consent

Last month some community members complained that an item which authorized the council to hire EPS to do ...

Last month some community members complained that an item which authorized the council to hire EPS to do a fiscal analysis was inappropriately placed on the consent calendar. Now I am seeing on a Fac ...

November 04, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (12) Comments

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City Recommends Issuing Supplemental EIR Contract for ARC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 02, 2019
| (1) Comment

City Recommends Issuing Supplemental EIR Contract for ARC

Sunflowers over Aggie Research Campus (ARC) site When the council approved certification of the EIR for t ...

Sunflowers over Aggie Research Campus (ARC) site When the council approved certification of the EIR for the Mace Ranch Innovation Center (MRIC) in the fall of 2017, all sides understood that if the pr ...

November 02, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Council Gets a Presentation on RHNA and Local Housing Needs

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 24, 2019
| (6) Comments

Council Gets a Presentation on RHNA and Local Housing Needs

Greg Chew and Dov Kadin from SACOG (Sacramento Area Council of Governments) gave a presentation to counci ...

Greg Chew and Dov Kadin from SACOG (Sacramento Area Council of Governments) gave a presentation to council about the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) process that will be coming up for the new ...

October 24, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (6) Comments

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Commentary: What We Learned about District Elections Last Night

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 24, 2019
| (34) Comments

Commentary: What We Learned about District Elections Last Night

It was a 3-2 vote that turned out not to be a vote at all because, once it became clear there were three ...

It was a 3-2 vote that turned out not to be a vote at all because, once it became clear there were three votes for five districts, the council fell in line behind the Map 5-4 option. The key vote tur ...

October 24, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (34) Comments

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Sunday Commentary: Has the Issue of Student Housing Finally Been Addressed?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 20, 2019
| (29) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Has the Issue of Student Housing Finally Been Addressed?

If you look at polling this year, you will see really for the first time in recent memory the top issue i ...

If you look at polling this year, you will see really for the first time in recent memory the top issue is the affordability of housing. It seems that Davis, long known in the state and region for it ...

October 20, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (29) Comments

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My View: Reality Hits Home with the Impending Loss of Schilling Robotics

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 19, 2019
| (72) Comments

My View: Reality Hits Home with the Impending Loss of Schilling Robotics

The reality is that Tyler Schilling warned us – he warned us back in 2014 that they were going to need mo ...

The reality is that Tyler Schilling warned us – he warned us back in 2014 that they were going to need more space. He warned the council, “We’re going to need a sizable parcel to build a new facility ...

October 19, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (72) Comments

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Downtown Plan Lays Out Development Strategy – Part Two

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 18, 2019
| (4) Comments

Downtown Plan Lays Out Development Strategy – Part Two

The City of Davis has released the Draft Davis Downtown Plan this week. Yesterday's article (City Releas ...

The City of Davis has released the Draft Davis Downtown Plan this week. Yesterday's article (City Releases Draft of Downtown Plan and Code) looks at the six goals of the plan. This will look at the ...

October 18, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (4) Comments

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City, County, UC Davis Hold First Townhall, Brief Update on Housing

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: October 18, 2019
| (40) Comments

City, County, UC Davis Hold First Townhall, Brief Update on Housing

By Danielle Silva DAVIS — The Annual Public Meeting of the City of Davis, UC Davis and Yolo County focuse ...

By Danielle Silva DAVIS — The Annual Public Meeting of the City of Davis, UC Davis and Yolo County focused on the housing issue, especially in relation to students. This Annual Public Meeting was host ...

October 18, 2019
| by Danielle Silva

| (40) Comments

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Five Early Thoughts on the Aggie Research Campus

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 14, 2019
| (14) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Five Early Thoughts on the Aggie Research Campus

We have been talking about Aggie Research Campus (ARC) for months already, but until this past week we ha ...

We have been talking about Aggie Research Campus (ARC) for months already, but until this past week we had not had an official application to look at. There remains a lot to look at in the next sever ...

October 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (14) Comments

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Sunday Commentary: If We Lose Schilling or Other Major Companies, This Time We Were Warned

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 13, 2019
| (42) Comments

Sunday Commentary: If We Lose Schilling or Other Major Companies, This Time We Were Warned

In 2013, as Davis was dealt a blow from losing Bayer Crop Science, formerly AgraQuest, Commercial Real Es ...

In 2013, as Davis was dealt a blow from losing Bayer Crop Science, formerly AgraQuest, Commercial Real Estate Broker Jim Gray wrote an op-ed telling Davis not to beat itself up over the loss. “Large e ...

October 13, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (42) Comments

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Accusations Fly in Precursor to ARC Discussion

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 09, 2019
| (95) Comments

Accusations Fly in Precursor to ARC Discussion

They were supposed to be two basic items which were rightly placed on the consent calendar – one which cr ...

They were supposed to be two basic items which were rightly placed on the consent calendar – one which created a council subcommittee to help expedite the processing of the application for the Aggie R ...

October 09, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (95) Comments

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Judge Hears Arguments on Nishi Suit, Inclined to Stick with Previous Ruling

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 09, 2019
| 0 comments

Judge Hears Arguments on Nishi Suit, Inclined to Stick with Previous Ruling

Judge Peter Williams listened to approximately 90 minutes of arguments by both the petitioners represente ...

Judge Peter Williams listened to approximately 90 minutes of arguments by both the petitioners represented by Patrick Soluri and defendants represented by former Davis City Attorney Harriet Steiner an ...

October 09, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| 0 comments

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Judge Denies Nishi Suit in Tentative Ruling

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 08, 2019
| (14) Comments

Judge Denies Nishi Suit in Tentative Ruling

Barring a hearing today, it appears that Judge Peter Williams has denied the petitioner’s attempt to stop ...

Barring a hearing today, it appears that Judge Peter Williams has denied the petitioner’s attempt to stop the Nishi student housing project. If the decision by Judge Williams holds, this would be the ...

October 08, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (14) Comments

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Guest Commentary: What Kind of Development Would Actually Improve Davis?

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 08, 2019
| (3) Comments

Guest Commentary: What Kind of Development Would Actually Improve Davis?

by Mark Dempsey The Davis Vanguard recently published Davis Teeters with an Unsustainable Economic and Fi ...

by Mark Dempsey The Davis Vanguard recently published Davis Teeters with an Unsustainable Economic and Fiscal Situation, describing the difficulty in getting sustainable, good development, and the goo ...

October 08, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (3) Comments

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Breeding Bad Process, Lack of Outreach, Lack of Engagement

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 07, 2019
| (29) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Breeding Bad Process, Lack of Outreach, Lack of Engagement

The slow growth side of the fence in Davis has become the little boys that cry wolf. I actually believe ...

The slow growth side of the fence in Davis has become the little boys that cry wolf. I actually believe that the parable is widely misunderstood. You see, in fable, the shepherd is charged with watch ...

October 07, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (29) Comments

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