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Monday Morning Thoughts: Is UC Davis the Cause and Thus the Solution to Housing Woes in Davis?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 21, 2021
| (33) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Is UC Davis the Cause and Thus the Solution to Housing Woes in Davis?

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – This may well be THE dividing line between those who are more slow grow ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – This may well be THE dividing line between those who are more slow growth and those who are more pro-housing. In fact, I think both sides have some of this right. Wh ...

June 21, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Time to End These Smear Attacks on a Housing Advocate

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 20, 2021
| (27) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Time to End These Smear Attacks on a Housing Advocate

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - A series of articles have been published over the course of the past tw ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - A series of articles have been published over the course of the past two weeks—several of which the Vanguard has declined to publish because of factual errors, missta ...

June 20, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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My View: We Should Not Fear the End of R1 Zoning

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 19, 2021
| (37) Comments

My View: We Should Not Fear the End of R1 Zoning

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - As we search for creative ways to expand housing given land use restric ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - As we search for creative ways to expand housing given land use restrictions in Davis, one of the more valuable tools may be to end R1 zoning restrictions that limit ...

June 19, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Sometimes the Simplest Explanation Is the Best with Respect to Housing Views

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 18, 2021
| (31) Comments

Commentary: Sometimes the Simplest Explanation Is the Best with Respect to Housing Views

Lincoln40-5 By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – There is a tendency for people to violate the maxim that th ...

Lincoln40-5 By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – There is a tendency for people to violate the maxim that the simplest reasonable explanation is usually the correct one and that, while alluring, fallback ...

June 18, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Dan Carson’s Comments on the Housing Element Review

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 17, 2021
| (19) Comments

Guest Commentary: Dan Carson’s Comments on the Housing Element Review

(Editor's Note: The following are comments from Councilmember Dan Carson delivered on Tuesday during the ...

(Editor's Note: The following are comments from Councilmember Dan Carson delivered on Tuesday during the discussion of the Davis Housing Element Draft Report). by Dan Carson My Comments on Housing Ele ...

June 17, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Guest Commentary: The City of Davis Housing Element Update & Developer Web

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 17, 2021
| (35) Comments

Guest Commentary: The City of Davis Housing Element Update & Developer Web

What is fueling the push to radically rewrite Davis’s laws on development? by Colin Walsh “Pro-developmen ...

What is fueling the push to radically rewrite Davis’s laws on development? by Colin Walsh “Pro-development activists try to trick you into thinking it helps the poor to destroy neighborhoods to make w ...

June 17, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Council Listens to Battle of the Talking Points; Council Leans Toward More Middle Course

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 16, 2021
| (21) Comments

Council Listens to Battle of the Talking Points; Council Leans Toward More Middle Course

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - There were no motions made, no direction taken yet, but the course of t ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - There were no motions made, no direction taken yet, but the course of the council was laid out during this workshop pretty clearly. Several dozen public commenters l ...

June 16, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: What the HEC Is Going On?

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 15, 2021
| (17) Comments

Guest Commentary: What the HEC Is Going On?

The City’s Denial of Brown Act Violations by the Housing Element Committee and Certain of Its Members I ...

The City’s Denial of Brown Act Violations by the Housing Element Committee and Certain of Its Members Is Not Credible nor Factually-Based by Alan Pryor and Rik Keller (Editor’s comment: The Vanguard ...

June 15, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: Council Will Focus Heavily on Three Key Proposals for Housing Element

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 13, 2021
| (11) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Council Will Focus Heavily on Three Key Proposals for Housing Element

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - If one good thing came out of the controversial recommendations from th ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - If one good thing came out of the controversial recommendations from the Housing Element Commission it was that it awoke segments of the community to the fact that ke ...

June 13, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Council to Hold Housing Element Workshop on Tuesday

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 12, 2021
| 0 comments

Council to Hold Housing Element Workshop on Tuesday

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - The city of Davis announced on Friday that it would be re-opening City ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - The city of Davis announced on Friday that it would be re-opening City Hall starting Tuesday in conjunction with new state orders allowing for the resumption of norma ...

June 12, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: How to Achieve Balance with Growth

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 11, 2021
| (27) Comments

Commentary: How to Achieve Balance with Growth

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - One of the points I have been trying to make over at least the last mon ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - One of the points I have been trying to make over at least the last month is that important voices from our community have been absent the discussions on housing and ...

June 11, 2021
| by David Greenwald

| (27) Comments

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Letter: Future of the Core Transition East

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 09, 2021
| (5) Comments

Letter: Future of the Core Transition East

by Mark Grote Dear decision-makers and community members: On behalf of the Old East Davis Neighborhood As ...

by Mark Grote Dear decision-makers and community members: On behalf of the Old East Davis Neighborhood Association Board, I am writing to ask again for collaboration between the city, property owners ...

June 09, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Davis Really Isn’t a Bedroom Community in the Classic Sense

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 08, 2021
| (46) Comments

Commentary: Davis Really Isn’t a Bedroom Community in the Classic Sense

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - I was struck by a question offered up by Matt Williams yesterday in my ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - I was struck by a question offered up by Matt Williams yesterday in my Monday column. He wrote: “Here is a question for Tim Keller … If the Vision for Davis is to be ...

June 08, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Density or Sprawl Debate

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 07, 2021
| (30) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Density or Sprawl Debate

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - For a long time the growth question has been framed at density versus s ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - For a long time the growth question has been framed at density versus sprawl. With the advent of Measure J, it was argued, the path toward peripheral development has ...

June 07, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Davis Needs a New Perspective On Growth

Posted by Tim Keller
|Date: June 05, 2021
| (57) Comments

Guest Commentary: Davis Needs a New Perspective On Growth

by Tim Keller In Davis, we seem to be always having the same debate: “Should we approve this one project? ...

by Tim Keller In Davis, we seem to be always having the same debate: “Should we approve this one project? - Or should we not grow at all? “ This is a rut that we are stuck in, and we need to break fre ...

June 05, 2021
| by Tim Keller

| (57) Comments

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Commentary: City Pulls Noise Ordinance Issue, but Bypassing Commissions in Davis Is a Recipe for Trouble

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 03, 2021
| (24) Comments

Commentary: City Pulls Noise Ordinance Issue, but Bypassing Commissions in Davis Is a Recipe for Trouble

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - It’s rarely a good idea in Davis to attempt to push through changes wit ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - It’s rarely a good idea in Davis to attempt to push through changes without going through the commission process. For another example of that look at the proposed ch ...

June 03, 2021
| by David Greenwald

| (24) Comments

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Sound Professional Weighs In on Proposed Noise Ordinance

Posted by David L Johnson
|Date: June 01, 2021
| (6) Comments

Sound Professional Weighs In on Proposed Noise Ordinance

Because the City of Davis is considering a revised sound ordinance, I thought it would be helpful to hear ...

Because the City of Davis is considering a revised sound ordinance, I thought it would be helpful to hear from Robert Lawson, a sound professional, who recently posted the following informative piece ...

June 01, 2021
| by David L Johnson

| (6) Comments

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Monday Morning Thoughts: UCD As the Behemoth, but Can It Viably Solve Our Housing Problems?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 31, 2021
| (30) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: UCD As the Behemoth, but Can It Viably Solve Our Housing Problems?

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Sometimes I feel like we are living in the land of the Lilliputians att ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Sometimes I feel like we are living in the land of the Lilliputians attempting to overcome the behemoth when we are dealing with UC Davis. Under the leadership of Ga ...

May 31, 2021
| by David Greenwald

| (30) Comments

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Sunday Commentary: We Need to Be Talking about the Big Housing Issue in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 30, 2021
| (40) Comments

Sunday Commentary: We Need to Be Talking about the Big Housing Issue in Davis

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – I was sitting down this week over coffee with a community member, when ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – I was sitting down this week over coffee with a community member, when the conversation turned to housing and they asked me about the Housing Element and my take on i ...

May 30, 2021
| by David Greenwald

| (40) Comments

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Commentary: New Sound Ordinance – This Sounds Fishy!

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 30, 2021
| (18) Comments

Commentary: New Sound Ordinance – This Sounds Fishy!

by Robert Canning At next week’s city council meeting, council will be asked to change the city’s sound o ...

by Robert Canning At next week’s city council meeting, council will be asked to change the city’s sound ordnance. With little discussion or notice, city staff have added an item to the agenda that cou ...

May 30, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (18) Comments

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