On Tuesday, Paul Navazio, the City Finance Directory presented the Mid-Year Budget Update. One area of serious short fall is in the area of parking citations and moving violations. The current revenue ...

It was originally my intention to do a profile on each of the members of the steering committee individually. What I've discovered is that there is too much going on and things are occurring too quick ...

The Housing Element Steering Committee convened for the first time the other night to a discussion, ironically enough, on the issue of Conflict of Interests. It is ironic that they have this discussio ...

In proceedings that quickly turned contentious and then went from contentious to downright ludicrous the council put the Cannery Park project on hold.The subplots of this discussion were perhaps more ...

While the proposals in the County Supervisors General Plan update have rightly gotten much of the attention this week, there is in addition to the very important County Supervisor's meeting this after ...

We continue with our on-going profile of members of the Davis General Plan Steering Committee by looking at Stephen Souza's choice, Brenda Little. Little is the director of property management for Tan ...

Continuing our periodic series profiling some of the members of the General Plan Housing Element, we look at Jay Gerber.Jay Gerber owns the Cable Car Wash in Davis. He was appointed to the General Pla ...

A few weeks ago we had a critical article on the Senior Affordable Housing project, Eleanor Roosevelt Circle. The developers of that project--Luke Watkins and David Thompson requested a chance to addr ...

The critical resource that the homeless of Davis is housing. It is a commonly known fact that there is a long term and emergency shelter program operating in the city of Davis, operated by Davis Commu ...

I wanted to get this up here as well, following up on the profile we did earlier this week on the Rev. Kristin Stoneking who named to the Housing Element Steering Committee for the General Plan by Cou ...

With the composition of a 15 member steering committee who will work on the General Plan Housing Element now having been named, we will over the course of the next few weeks profile a few of the membe ...

Earlier this week there was a dispute as to who should fill the vacant LAFCO seat now that Frank Sieferman who had occupied the second Yolo County Supervisor seat lost reelection to Matt Rexroad. Mr. ...

The parliamentary maneuvering on the park's consultant request for proposal are almost as interesting as the actually item. However, the item itself deserves some scrutiny.A request for proposal (RFP) ...

Early on Wednesday morning, the City Council moved forward on their plan to update the general plan. Each member nominated three regulars and one alternate to a 15 member steering committee that would ...

According to a report released by the National Low Income Housing Coalition on Friday, December 17, 2006, in order for a Yolo County Family to afford a two-bedroom apartment, they must earn $17.50 per ...

In the debate over the General Plan last Tuesday night at the Davis City Council meeting, as we reported on Wednesday, there was a complaint by Mayor Pro Tem Ruth Asmundson who, somewhat inexplicably, ...

Two weeks ago we reported that the Davis City Council had voted to take no action on a proposal that would authorize city staff to solicit bids for the purpose of hiring a consultant who would then wo ...

Last night's Davis City Council meeting saw a number of issues that were raised that we will be discussing over the course of the next few days.I begin with a procedural fight over what will likely be ...

Some interesting notes from the Vacaville Reporter on Fairfield and Wal-Mart.Apparently Wal Mart has a store that they are closing down at one location and want to buy a new store--a SUPER store--at a ...

Everybody likes parks. We all want good parks for our children to play in. We want good parks for ourselves to have good recreation in (as opposed to bad recreation?). Politically speaking, everyone h ...