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Commentary: Round and Round We Go on Plaza 2555 – Mega-Dorms Reconstituted or Needed Rental Housing?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 04, 2018
| (21) Comments

Commentary: Round and Round We Go on Plaza 2555 – Mega-Dorms Reconstituted or Needed Rental Housing?

Round and round we went yesterday on the issue of Plaza 2555. I think it’s important to separate fact fr ...

Round and round we went yesterday on the issue of Plaza 2555. I think it’s important to separate fact from opinion. We all have lots of opinions and it is okay to differ on them. However, when we a ...

September 04, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (21) Comments

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Council Unanimously Approves Davis Live Apartments, Students Push Back against Litigation

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 29, 2018
| (52) Comments

Council Unanimously Approves Davis Live Apartments, Students Push Back against Litigation

Given it is a location surrounded by other student housing, even a seven-story proposed project drew no o ...

Given it is a location surrounded by other student housing, even a seven-story proposed project drew no outright opposition at the council meeting on Tuesday – unless of course you are Soluri Meserve, ...

August 29, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Students Live in Housing Insecurity while Litigants Hold Up Projects

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 26, 2018
| (36) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Students Live in Housing Insecurity while Litigants Hold Up Projects

In the next few weeks we are expecting the full report from the UC Davis Affordable Housing Task Force to ...

In the next few weeks we are expecting the full report from the UC Davis Affordable Housing Task Force to be released, with a response from UC Davis’ administration and recommendations for moving forw ...

August 26, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: UCD and City Going to Mediation to Avoid Litigation

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 03, 2018
| (44) Comments

Commentary: UCD and City Going to Mediation to Avoid Litigation

On Tuesday, Mayor Brett Lee announced out of closed session that the city and university have agreed on a ...

On Tuesday, Mayor Brett Lee announced out of closed session that the city and university have agreed on an extension to the deadline over the Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) and the Environmental I ...

August 03, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (44) Comments

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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Fight with UCD Could Delay Housing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 30, 2018
| (3) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: A Fight with UCD Could Delay Housing

The biggest concern that the city of Davis has right now about the university’s housing plan, as laid out ...

The biggest concern that the city of Davis has right now about the university’s housing plan, as laid out in the Long Range Development Plan (LRDP), is their history. They have a history of making co ...

July 30, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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More Legal Threats against Davis Live; Commissioners and Applicants Push Back

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 27, 2018
| (19) Comments

More Legal Threats against Davis Live; Commissioners and Applicants Push Back

The Soluri Meserve Law Firm has already filed two lawsuits against the city, filing California Environmen ...

The Soluri Meserve Law Firm has already filed two lawsuits against the city, filing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) suits against Lincoln40 and Nishi approvals. Now they are threatening p ...

July 27, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (19) Comments

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Commission Unanimously Recommends Approval of Davis Live Housing Second Time Around

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 26, 2018
| (5) Comments

Commission Unanimously Recommends Approval of Davis Live Housing Second Time Around

This time there would be no mistake. In May, the Planning Commission, while supportive of the Davis Live ...

This time there would be no mistake. In May, the Planning Commission, while supportive of the Davis Live student apartments in general, was not able to recommend approval on a variety of grounds incl ...

July 26, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: We Have the Housing We Need Largely in Place, but We Need to Eliminate the Barriers

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 25, 2018
| (3) Comments

Commentary: We Have the Housing We Need Largely in Place, but We Need to Eliminate the Barriers

Lost in the debate, over things like the definition of homelessness, is a simple fact – we don’t have eno ...

Lost in the debate, over things like the definition of homelessness, is a simple fact – we don’t have enough housing to serve the existing student population. And that problem is only going to get wo ...

July 25, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: City and Campus Headed for a Confrontation to the Detriment of Both

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 22, 2018
| (13) Comments

Sunday Commentary: City and Campus Headed for a Confrontation to the Detriment of Both

The handwriting is on the wall. The city in a letter from Attorney Whitney McDonald have pushed back aga ...

The handwriting is on the wall. The city in a letter from Attorney Whitney McDonald have pushed back against the university. While the city is willing at this point to accept the university’s numbers ...

July 22, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (13) Comments

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City Continues to Push Back against Final EIR of LRDP

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 18, 2018
| (25) Comments

City Continues to Push Back against Final EIR of LRDP

In a letter dated Tuesday, July 17, the city of Davis continued to express objection to the CEQA (Califor ...

In a letter dated Tuesday, July 17, the city of Davis continued to express objection to the CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) findings in connection with the 2018 Long Range Development Plan ...

July 18, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (25) Comments

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Field & Pond Owner Responds to Ongoing Legal Battle

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 17, 2018
| (21) Comments

Field & Pond Owner Responds to Ongoing Legal Battle

The owners of Field + Pond have been successful both in securing approval from the county as well as the ...

The owners of Field + Pond have been successful both in securing approval from the county as well as the court itself. But the fight is taking a toll on Dahvie James and Philip Watt, both financially ...

July 17, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (21) Comments

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Citizens’ Right to Vote Is Only a One-Way Door

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 16, 2018
| (48) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Citizens’ Right to Vote Is Only a One-Way Door

One of the biggest issues moving forward in 2020 is going to be the renewal of Measure R. Measure R was ...

One of the biggest issues moving forward in 2020 is going to be the renewal of Measure R. Measure R was the renewal of the 2000 ballot measure, Measure J, the "Citizen's Right to Vote on Future Use o ...

July 16, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (48) Comments

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Commentary: Abusing CEQA Is Hurting Us All

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 12, 2018
| (29) Comments

Commentary: Abusing CEQA Is Hurting Us All

Yesterday I was reading through the material on Field + Pond and one of the things that struck me was how ...

Yesterday I was reading through the material on Field + Pond and one of the things that struck me was how neighbors were suing under CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) to stop a development t ...

July 12, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (29) Comments

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County Issues Notice of Preparation for Field & Pond EIR

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 11, 2018
| (19) Comments

County Issues Notice of Preparation for Field & Pond EIR

The Board of Supervisors has twice had to approve an event permit for the Field & Pond event center t ...

The Board of Supervisors has twice had to approve an event permit for the Field & Pond event center to host weddings out in a rural stretch of Yolo County. The approvals came over the strenuous ob ...

July 11, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (19) Comments

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Plaintiffs File Petition in Rainier v. City of Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 17, 2018
| (9) Comments

Plaintiffs File Petition in Rainier v. City of Davis

“In certifying an Environmental Impact Report for the Project, Respondent prejudicially abused its discre ...

“In certifying an Environmental Impact Report for the Project, Respondent prejudicially abused its discretion and failed to proceed in the manner required by law,” attorney Patrick Soluri of the Solur ...

April 17, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (9) Comments

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Didn’t See This Lawsuit Coming

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 16, 2018
| (2) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Didn’t See This Lawsuit Coming

I made the mistake of believing that Lincoln40 was relatively safe from litigation. As we noted about a ...

I made the mistake of believing that Lincoln40 was relatively safe from litigation. As we noted about a month ago, in my view litigation on the Lincoln40 project will be difficult if not impossible, ...

April 16, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (2) Comments

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Rainier Files Another Lawsuit, this One Against Lincoln40

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 13, 2018
| (77) Comments

Rainier Files Another Lawsuit, this One Against Lincoln40

For the second time in a month, Susan Rainier has filed a lawsuit against a development in the city of D ...

For the second time in a month, Susan Rainier has filed a lawsuit against a development in the city of Davis. This time it is filed against Lincoln40. The city received a letter on Thursday, dated ...

April 13, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (77) Comments

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Commentary: The Cost of Lawsuits Is More Than You Think

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 16, 2018
| (49) Comments

Commentary: The Cost of Lawsuits Is More Than You Think

Yesterday the Vanguard reported on yet another lawsuit against a project in Davis. Since 2011, we have s ...

Yesterday the Vanguard reported on yet another lawsuit against a project in Davis. Since 2011, we have seen lawsuits filed against the water project, against a conditional use permit (CUP) for a ther ...

March 16, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (49) Comments

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Air Quality Concerns Motivate CEQA Suit Against Nishi

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 15, 2018
| (12) Comments

Air Quality Concerns Motivate CEQA Suit Against Nishi

The group Davis Coalition for Sensible Planning filed a CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) suit ...

The group Davis Coalition for Sensible Planning filed a CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) suit against the city right at the deadline, hiring the Sacramento based firm, Soluri Meserve, to re ...

March 15, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (12) Comments

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Unknown Group Files CEQA Suit against Nishi at the 11th Hour

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 10, 2018
| (9) Comments

Unknown Group Files CEQA Suit against Nishi at the 11th Hour

Friday was the last day to file a CEQA suit against Nishi, and just after 10 am, the city received notice ...

Friday was the last day to file a CEQA suit against Nishi, and just after 10 am, the city received notice of the commencement of action against it by Sacramento-based law firm, Soluri Meserve, on beha ...

March 10, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (9) Comments

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