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Commentary: Do We Need an Additional Traffic Study on Mace?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 19, 2019
| (57) Comments

Commentary: Do We Need an Additional Traffic Study on Mace?

Most of Alan Pryor’s guest commentary deals with the current conditions on Mace and the need to study tra ...

Most of Alan Pryor’s guest commentary deals with the current conditions on Mace and the need to study traffic prior to making changes on Mace – but he also points to the 800-pound gorilla as being the ...

July 19, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: New Mace Blvd Traffic Study Needed Before Making any More Changes

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 18, 2019
| (28) Comments

Guest Commentary: New Mace Blvd Traffic Study Needed Before Making any More Changes

by Alan Pryor The City is in the midst of trying to formulate a plan to alleviate traffic congestion alon ...

by Alan Pryor The City is in the midst of trying to formulate a plan to alleviate traffic congestion along the Mace Blvd. corridor. Following are excerpts from the Staff Report presented to the Bicycl ...

July 18, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: New Housing Project Is Unlikely to Be a Major Impact on Mace

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 17, 2019
| (12) Comments

Commentary: New Housing Project Is Unlikely to Be a Major Impact on Mace

There was a letter in the local paper worried about the impact of the new Chiles Road Apartments project ...

There was a letter in the local paper worried about the impact of the new Chiles Road Apartments project on the Mace Boulevard congestion. The writer notes: “So the city recently heard from 150 folks ...

July 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Moving Forward on the Rental Resources Ordinance

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 16, 2019
| (7) Comments

Guest Commentary: Moving Forward on the Rental Resources Ordinance

By Dillan Horton In early June, as the city was finalizing its annual budget I asked the current city cou ...

By Dillan Horton In early June, as the city was finalizing its annual budget I asked the current city council to consider allocating more resources for the Rental Resources Ordinance. I’ve heard so ma ...

July 16, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Housing Pressure on Davis About to Ramp Up

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 15, 2019
| (14) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Housing Pressure on Davis About to Ramp Up

Consider this a trigger warning – if you don’t like speculation, you probably won’t like this column. Th ...

Consider this a trigger warning – if you don’t like speculation, you probably won’t like this column. The state as we know is feeling the pressure of housing shortages. A reader on Sunday noted that ...

July 15, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Progressive Boomers Blocking Housing Fixes – Part of a New Generational Struggle

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 14, 2019
| (78) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Progressive Boomers Blocking Housing Fixes – Part of a New Generational Struggle

A few days ago, the Huffington Post ran a lengthy article that found, “Progressive Boomers Are Making It ...

A few days ago, the Huffington Post ran a lengthy article that found, “Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing Crisis,” and “Residents of wealthy neighborhoods are t ...

July 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: A Look at the City Survey – Part One, Housing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 11, 2019
| (42) Comments

Commentary: A Look at the City Survey – Part One, Housing

The city conducted a survey recently through EMC Research with the broader subject being satisfaction. F ...

The city conducted a survey recently through EMC Research with the broader subject being satisfaction. For the most part the city council should be pleased with the survey results – especially lookin ...

July 11, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Community Survey Shows Overwhelming Need for Affordable Housing, Overall Satisfaction with City

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 10, 2019
| (40) Comments

Community Survey Shows Overwhelming Need for Affordable Housing, Overall Satisfaction with City

The city kept the survey hidden from the public until it was presented on Tuesday night. Once unveiled, ...

The city kept the survey hidden from the public until it was presented on Tuesday night. Once unveiled, the results were stark and somewhat overwhelming. There were three key trends, in addition to o ...

July 10, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: The Expansion of NIMBYISM into Zoning

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 07, 2019
| (40) Comments

Sunday Commentary: The Expansion of NIMBYISM into Zoning

A reader pointed us back to a 2018 commentary from the New York Times, “How ‘Not in My Backyard’ Became ‘ ...

A reader pointed us back to a 2018 commentary from the New York Times, “How ‘Not in My Backyard’ Became ‘Not in My Neighborhood’,” in which Emily Badger notes, “The expectation that homeowners should ...

July 07, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Housing’s Impact on the Economy

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 05, 2019
| (87) Comments

Commentary: Housing’s Impact on the Economy

In recent weeks we have had discussions on whether the proposed ARC (Aggie Research Campus) needs housing ...

In recent weeks we have had discussions on whether the proposed ARC (Aggie Research Campus) needs housing or not. In those discussions, we have cited industry leaders who have pointed out that prospe ...

July 05, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Habitat Restoration Project Coming Soon To North Davis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 03, 2019
| (13) Comments

Habitat Restoration Project Coming Soon To North Davis

(From Press Release) – The City of Davis announced today that three acres of City-owned, vacant land at t ...

(From Press Release) – The City of Davis announced today that three acres of City-owned, vacant land at the corner of F Street and Anderson Road will soon be transformed into a new wildlife habitat ar ...

July 03, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Where Do Recent Development Projects Stand?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 28, 2019
| (14) Comments

Where Do Recent Development Projects Stand?

The city council has approved a number of projects in recent years. Recently Lincoln40 was given a green ...

The city council has approved a number of projects in recent years. Recently Lincoln40 was given a green light to go forward by a court, but the city will have decisions to make on Trackside – whethe ...

June 28, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (14) Comments

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Applicant Explains His Thinking on Aggie Research Campus

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

Applicant Explains His Thinking on Aggie Research Campus

Last week, the applicants for a commercial development east of Mace Boulevard submitted a letter to the c ...

Last week, the applicants for a commercial development east of Mace Boulevard submitted a letter to the city signaling that they will be re-engaging in the process of attempting to entitle the 200 or ...

June 20, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Housing Policy as Generational Warfare for Millennials

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 16, 2019
| (132) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Housing Policy as Generational Warfare for Millennials

The Atlantic in the past week wrote an article, “Why Housing Policy Feels Like Generational Warfare (To M ...

The Atlantic in the past week wrote an article, “Why Housing Policy Feels Like Generational Warfare (To Millennials, at least).” The theme captures my thinking on local land use wars – the divide bet ...

June 16, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Housing Insecurity and Homeless Numbers at UCD a Cause for Alarm

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 15, 2019
| (2) Comments

My View: Housing Insecurity and Homeless Numbers at UCD a Cause for Alarm

Lost in the shuffle of the new Aggie Research Campus as well as the Paul’s Place homeless discussion are ...

Lost in the shuffle of the new Aggie Research Campus as well as the Paul’s Place homeless discussion are numbers out of the university that remind us why building more student housing was the priority ...

June 15, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (2) Comments

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Council Looks to Extend Affordable Rental Ordinance until June 2020

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 14, 2019
| (1) Comment

Council Looks to Extend Affordable Rental Ordinance until June 2020

The interim alternative Affordable Rental Housing Ordinance is set to sunset in a few weeks. Council is ...

The interim alternative Affordable Rental Housing Ordinance is set to sunset in a few weeks. Council is being asked to pass an amendment that would extend the sunset date of the current interim affor ...

June 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (1) Comment

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Desarrolladores del MRIC presentan una nueva propuesta: un campus agropecuario “Aggie” de investigación con viviendas

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 14, 2019
| (10) Comments

Desarrolladores del MRIC presentan una nueva propuesta: un campus agropecuario “Aggie” de investigación con viviendas

Los planes de desarrollo económico de la ciudad de Davis se encauzaron repentinamente el martes con una c ...

Los planes de desarrollo económico de la ciudad de Davis se encauzaron repentinamente el martes con una carta de los solicitantes del Centro de Innovación Mace Ranch (MRIC -en sus siglas en inglés) - ...

June 14, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (10) Comments

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Paul’s Place Figures to Be an Innovative Approach to Solving the Homeless Challenges in This Community

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 13, 2019
| (104) Comments

Paul’s Place Figures to Be an Innovative Approach to Solving the Homeless Challenges in This Community

Paul’s Place, which offers opportunities for people suffering from homelessness to find a place to live, ...

Paul’s Place, which offers opportunities for people suffering from homelessness to find a place to live, and gives support to help people get the services they need to rebuild their lives. “Recognizin ...

June 13, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Rebranding MRIC as Aggie Research Campus… with Housing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 13, 2019
| (36) Comments

Commentary: Rebranding MRIC as Aggie Research Campus… with Housing

After five years and a number of false starts, MRIC (Mace Ranch Innovation Center) needed a rebrand, and ...

After five years and a number of false starts, MRIC (Mace Ranch Innovation Center) needed a rebrand, and thus it comes back as Aggie Research Campus which frankly is probably closer to what it really ...

June 13, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (36) Comments

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MRIC Developers Put Forward New Aggie Research Campus Proposal with Housing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 12, 2019
| (95) Comments

MRIC Developers Put Forward New Aggie Research Campus Proposal with Housing

The city of Davis’ economic development plans suddenly came into focus on Tuesday, as a letter from the M ...

The city of Davis’ economic development plans suddenly came into focus on Tuesday, as a letter from the Mace Ranch Innovation Center (MRIC) applicants – Buzz Oates, Reynolds & Brown, and Ramco Ent ...

June 12, 2019
| by David Greenwald

| (95) Comments

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