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

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 19, 2021
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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
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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: The City of Davis Housing Element Update & Developer Web

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 17, 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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Commentary: Is the Elimination of Single-Family Zoning in the Cards?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 26, 2021
| (22) Comments

Commentary: Is the Elimination of Single-Family Zoning in the Cards?

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - While the city of Davis has thus far avoided a debate that has increasi ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - While the city of Davis has thus far avoided a debate that has increasingly been waged across the country on single-family zoning, that could be ending shortly. Last ...

May 26, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Fairness Builds Trust

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 25, 2021
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Commentary: Fairness Builds Trust

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Reasonable people can disagree on policy goals. That is the very found ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Reasonable people can disagree on policy goals. That is the very foundation of our system of governance. It is why we need to have free and open elections to elect ...

May 25, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Housing Element Probably Gets Out in Front of Public Opinion, but Has Some Very Good Proposals

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 23, 2021
| (37) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Housing Element Probably Gets Out in Front of Public Opinion, but Has Some Very Good Proposals

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – The Housing Element Committee last week voted in favor of ten largely p ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – The Housing Element Committee last week voted in favor of ten largely pro-housing comments in the draft housing element proposal. Ultimately the council and the broa ...

May 23, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Sustainable Growth Yolo Gets a Number of Changes to the Housing Element

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 22, 2021
| (6) Comments

Sustainable Growth Yolo Gets a Number of Changes to the Housing Element

Davis, CA - In a release on Friday put out by Sustainable Growth Yolo, they lauded the fact that the Davi ...

Davis, CA - In a release on Friday put out by Sustainable Growth Yolo, they lauded the fact that the Davis Housing Element Committee voted in favor of 10 pro-housing comments in the draft housing elem ...

May 22, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Sustainable Growth Yolo Pushes to Expedite Housing Approval

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 21, 2021
| (17) Comments

Commentary: Sustainable Growth Yolo Pushes to Expedite Housing Approval

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - One of the key questions facing communities like Davis will be how it c ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - One of the key questions facing communities like Davis will be how it can meet the housing demands that are expected grow over the next ten years—even as population g ...

May 21, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Sustainable Growth Yolo Hosts Webinar and Issues Statement on the City of Davis Draft Housing Element Update (+Video)

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 19, 2021
| (2) Comments

Sustainable Growth Yolo Hosts Webinar and Issues Statement on the City of Davis Draft Housing Element Update (+Video)

Statement by Sustainable Growth Yolo The City of Davis Housing Element update is a key opportunity to add ...

Statement by Sustainable Growth Yolo The City of Davis Housing Element update is a key opportunity to address our region’s housing affordability crisis by facilitating critically needed housing develo ...

May 19, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sustainable Growth Yolo to Host Housing Element Webinar

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 15, 2021
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Sustainable Growth Yolo to Host Housing Element Webinar

The Housing Element process is a little known, but potentially very impactful, required set of policies f ...

The Housing Element process is a little known, but potentially very impactful, required set of policies for Davis and other cities to meet the housing production required by the state. In the next mon ...

May 15, 2021
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Commentary: The City Could Do More to Make Redevelopment and Infill Viable

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 13, 2021
| (26) Comments

Commentary: The City Could Do More to Make Redevelopment and Infill Viable

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - My columns this week have taken a rather dim view on the Housing Elemen ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - My columns this week have taken a rather dim view on the Housing Element and the future prospect for infill development in Davis, given that the difficulty of develop ...

May 13, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Should Davis Pursue More Greenfield Development in the Current Housing Element Cycle?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 11, 2021
| (10) Comments

Commentary: Should Davis Pursue More Greenfield Development in the Current Housing Element Cycle?

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - Yesterday’s column focused on the thoughts of law professor Chris Elmen ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - Yesterday’s column focused on the thoughts of law professor Chris Elmendorf and his critique of the Davis Housing Element Draft. He charges that the Davis draft prov ...

May 11, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Is Davis Abusing the State’s Housing Element Law? One Law Professor Thinks So

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 10, 2021
| (30) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Is Davis Abusing the State’s Housing Element Law? One Law Professor Thinks So

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - Chris Elmendorf is a Professor of Law at UC Davis, and yesterday he mad ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - Chris Elmendorf is a Professor of Law at UC Davis, and yesterday he made a rather provocative tweet that generated a huge and very interesting discussion: “Want (anot ...

May 10, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Davis Should Plan to Build More Housing

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 08, 2021
| (41) Comments

Guest Commentary: Davis Should Plan to Build More Housing

By Jake Berman When I moved to Davis in 1994, housing was cheap and plentiful enough that my parents, a s ...

By Jake Berman When I moved to Davis in 1994, housing was cheap and plentiful enough that my parents, a state worker and a therapist, could afford to buy a house and raise children here. This is no l ...

May 08, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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City Releases Draft Housing Element

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 05, 2021
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City Releases Draft Housing Element

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - The city this week released its 2021-2029 Draft Housing Element for rev ...

By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA - The city this week released its 2021-2029 Draft Housing Element for review by both the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and interested ...

May 05, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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