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Sunday Commentary: Will Dispensaries in the Downtown Lead to Revitalized Business or More Parking Impacts?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 04, 2018
| (45) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Will Dispensaries in the Downtown Lead to Revitalized Business or More Parking Impacts?

My view: This is probably more about the type of business, but the arguments against the businesses are i ...

My view: This is probably more about the type of business, but the arguments against the businesses are indeed weird given the need for a revitalized Davis Downtown and the prospect for more customers ...

March 04, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (45) Comments

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Guest Commentary: Creating a Vibrant Downtown

Posted by Robb Davis
|Date: January 07, 2018
| (54) Comments

Guest Commentary: Creating a Vibrant Downtown

By Robb Davis Public health practitioners have developed “proximate determinants” models for key health o ...

By Robb Davis Public health practitioners have developed “proximate determinants” models for key health outcomes to focus attention on the most critical factors that, together (and often in complex wa ...

January 07, 2018
| by Robb Davis

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My View: Turning Our Attention to the Core Area Specific Plan

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 18, 2017
| (42) Comments

My View: Turning Our Attention to the Core Area Specific Plan

It is with a sense of relief that we can now move on from Trackside. The Trackside issue was divisive an ...

It is with a sense of relief that we can now move on from Trackside. The Trackside issue was divisive and disappointing in a lot of ways, but as a 27-unit project, it is not going to solve the city’s ...

November 18, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (42) Comments

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Council Asked to Implement Paid Parking Plan

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 03, 2017
| (6) Comments

Council Asked to Implement Paid Parking Plan

The council on Tuesday will be asked to address paid parking downtown, as a continuation of the process t ...

The council on Tuesday will be asked to address paid parking downtown, as a continuation of the process that began in 2012 with the Downtown Parking Task Force which issued the Spring 2014 Downtown Pa ...

November 03, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (6) Comments

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Complaints about the Homeless Aired at Chamber Forum

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 25, 2017
| (19) Comments

Complaints about the Homeless Aired at Chamber Forum

The Davis Chamber hosted a 10-person forum on Tuesday at the Vet’s Memorial with a number of business and ...

The Davis Chamber hosted a 10-person forum on Tuesday at the Vet’s Memorial with a number of business and government leaders on the 10-person panel. There were a number of very serious complaints air ...

October 25, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (19) Comments

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Systemic Injustice – The Davis Disconnect

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 15, 2017
| (30) Comments

Systemic Injustice – The Davis Disconnect

by Mark West “Social justice is the concept of fair and just relation between the individual and s ...

by Mark West “Social justice is the concept of fair and just relation between the individual and society. This is measured by the explicit and tacit terms for the distribution of wealth, opport ...

September 15, 2017
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Mayor Pro Tem on the Core Area Specific Plan

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 04, 2017
| (49) Comments

Mayor Pro Tem on the Core Area Specific Plan

“(T)he zoning is the zoning until the city council changes the zoning. Sometimes we feel that there’s ce ...

“(T)he zoning is the zoning until the city council changes the zoning. Sometimes we feel that there’s certainty because of the zoning and because of the design guidelines, essentially three city coun ...

September 04, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: Thoughts on Parking and the Davis Downtown

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 30, 2017
| (12) Comments

Letter: Thoughts on Parking and the Davis Downtown

By Jason Taormino The Davis Vanguard is hosting an important forum this evening on Downtown Davis. I can ...

By Jason Taormino The Davis Vanguard is hosting an important forum this evening on Downtown Davis. I can not attend but wanted to add a few thoughts to the conversation. Where we, as a community, shou ...

August 30, 2017
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: What Do Trackside and Davis Ace Have in Common?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 20, 2017
| (27) Comments

Sunday Commentary: What Do Trackside and Davis Ace Have in Common?

Back in June there was a lengthy discussion over a proposed parking project by Davis Ace Hardware. The d ...

Back in June there was a lengthy discussion over a proposed parking project by Davis Ace Hardware. The discussion over Davis Ace’s parking highlighted the need for more extensive examination of the i ...

August 20, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (27) Comments

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Pathways to Employment Another Possible Solution to the Homeless Problem

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 01, 2017
| (1) Comment

Pathways to Employment Another Possible Solution to the Homeless Problem

Last Wednesday, Bill Pride from Davis Community Meals came to speak at the Vanguard Conclave and talked a ...

Last Wednesday, Bill Pride from Davis Community Meals came to speak at the Vanguard Conclave and talked about the program Pathways to Employment, which began a year ago. The idea was to bring togethe ...

August 01, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (1) Comment

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Downtown Davis Cleanliness and Pathways to Employment

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 29, 2017
| (6) Comments

Downtown Davis Cleanliness and Pathways to Employment

By Michael Bisch We are seeking downtown locations, on private property, to install “giving meters” that ...

By Michael Bisch We are seeking downtown locations, on private property, to install “giving meters” that will generate on-going funding for the Pathways to Employment program. Please see the photo of ...

July 29, 2017
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Can We Find a Solution to the Homeless Problem in Davis?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 26, 2017
| (5) Comments

Commentary: Can We Find a Solution to the Homeless Problem in Davis?

When we launched the idea of discussing the homeless situation in our Monthly Conclave series, the idea w ...

When we launched the idea of discussing the homeless situation in our Monthly Conclave series, the idea was to provide a space where people could come together, to learn about different approaches to ...

July 26, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (5) Comments

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Sunday Commentary: Trackside Debate Illustrates Need for CASP Update

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 16, 2017
| (67) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Trackside Debate Illustrates Need for CASP Update

I have mixed feelings on the need to do a new General Plan. Or at least a full new one. An update of th ...

I have mixed feelings on the need to do a new General Plan. Or at least a full new one. An update of the Core Area Specific Plan (CASP) with updates on sustainability goals might be sufficient. But ...

July 16, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (67) Comments

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Sunday Commentary: Ways to Solve the Homeless Problem in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 09, 2017
| (77) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Ways to Solve the Homeless Problem in Davis

In a May commentary, Davis Mayor Robb Davis wrote, “We need to talk about our options and make commitment ...

In a May commentary, Davis Mayor Robb Davis wrote, “We need to talk about our options and make commitments. To deal with the visible homelessness that attracts our attention will take a patient and pe ...

July 09, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (77) Comments

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Sunday Commentary: What Should Davis Do about the Downtown?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 25, 2017
| (22) Comments

Sunday Commentary: What Should Davis Do about the Downtown?

This week a discussion and debate over the Davis Ace parking lot proposal became an entry point and at ti ...

This week a discussion and debate over the Davis Ace parking lot proposal became an entry point and at times a proxy for a much broader discussion over the impending Davis Core Area Specific Plan. On ...

June 25, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (22) Comments

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Commentary: What We Have Learned from the Parking Discussion

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 23, 2017
| (1) Comment

Commentary: What We Have Learned from the Parking Discussion

The appeal of the Davis Ace parking project led to one of the more unique occurrences on the Vanguard, wi ...

The appeal of the Davis Ace parking project led to one of the more unique occurrences on the Vanguard, with an organic multi-day discussion of the Davis Downtown and parking issues that occurred throu ...

June 23, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (1) Comment

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Commentary: Paid Parking Is the Gorilla in the Room

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 22, 2017
| (29) Comments

Commentary: Paid Parking Is the Gorilla in the Room

The comments by the Davis City Council regarding the proposed Davis Ace Project were instructive. They w ...

The comments by the Davis City Council regarding the proposed Davis Ace Project were instructive. They were clearly willing to grant the project – three of the four councilmembers at the meeting in t ...

June 22, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (29) Comments

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It’s About Our Downtown, Not 15 Parking Spaces

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 20, 2017
| (7) Comments

It’s About Our Downtown, Not 15 Parking Spaces

By Joshua Chapman The Ace parking lot project on 3rd Street is coming before the Davis City Council this ...

By Joshua Chapman The Ace parking lot project on 3rd Street is coming before the Davis City Council this evening. The project has been appealed by an ad hoc coalition of social justice, environmental, ...

June 20, 2017
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (7) Comments

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Revisiting: What Is Missing in Downtown Davis?

Posted by Rob White
|Date: June 19, 2017
| (13) Comments

Revisiting: What Is Missing in Downtown Davis?

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the Vanguard on October 30, 2014, and written by ...

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the Vanguard on October 30, 2014, and written by then-Chief Innovation Officer Rob White. At the time, the focus was on the innovation center s ...

June 19, 2017
| by Rob White

| (13) Comments

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Staff Recommends Council Deny Appeal of Ace Hardware Decision

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 18, 2017
| (38) Comments

Staff Recommends Council Deny Appeal of Ace Hardware Decision

On May 10, the Davis Planning Commission approved a Conditional Use Permit for a parking lot with solar s ...

On May 10, the Davis Planning Commission approved a Conditional Use Permit for a parking lot with solar shade at 815 Third Street, for Davis Ace Hardware customers. According to the staff report, ther ...

June 18, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (38) Comments

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