by Steve Tracy - This is a follow-up to the May 5th City Council hearing on 5th Street. Once again an opportunity has been missed to move forward with the redesign that is in the adopted General Plan. ...

As we have been reporting for months, Westlake Plaza has remained without a grocery store anchor that is required by the city's general plan, since May of 2006. Earlier this year it looked like the gr ...

The Vanguard will have an ongoing series on the browning of Davis which will argue that Davis has fallen behind other communities in terms of environmental policies, notably with regards to climate ch ...

Mayor Pro Tem Saylor Talks the Angry Public Down on Water - Don Saylor spoke to the public following a rather heated public session where angry residents weighed in on their complaints about a possibl ...

The Davis City Council last night heard numerous citizens complain about a proposed 10 percent increase in water rates.  Many of the public cited the personal hardships that this would impose on them. ...

by Steve Tracy - Tuesday evening the Davis City Council will take one more step towards a solution to the multiple problems on the 5th Street corridor.  This process has been painfully slow to many of ...

How Davis has Dropped Out of the Race for Environmental Leadership - by Citizens for a Greener DavisDuring the 1970s and 1980s, Davis enjoyed an unparalleled and well-deserved reputation for its envir ...

Instead it Lags Behind Many Other Communities in Terms of Current and Proposed Policies - Last week the city of Davis discussed new policies for reducing GHG emissions on new developments.  This week, ...

The City of Davis has posted the Draft EIR (Environmental Impact Report) for the Wildhorse Ranch Proposal.  The Vanguard to this point in time has taken no position on the project itself.  However, th ...

The goal the city of Davis has set is to bring its greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels.  One mechanism by which to meet this goal is to raise environmental standards on new houses.  These thing ...

by Carolyn Hinshaw - In February the Governor and state water officials declared a drought emergency in California and urged all state residents to cut their water use by 20 percent.   What has Davis, ...