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Sunday Commentary: Just Can’t Get Cannery Right – And That Hurts Everything Else

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 15, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Just Can’t Get Cannery Right – And That Hurts Everything Else

By David M. Greenwald At some point if the city wants to lay its cards on the table, it might consider ha ...

By David M. Greenwald At some point if the city wants to lay its cards on the table, it might consider having a consultant or perhaps even staff assess what went wrong with the Cannery. Because, as i ...

November 15, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Lots of Questions and Few Answers for Davis’ Future

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 10, 2020
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Commentary: Lots of Questions and Few Answers for Davis’ Future

By David M. Greenwald There is perhaps some chance that Measure B—DISC, the Davis Innovation & Sustai ...

By David M. Greenwald There is perhaps some chance that Measure B—DISC, the Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus—can make a comeback, but at this point those chances are fleeting, as it trails ...

November 10, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: DISC – What Went Wrong? Pretty Much Everything

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 05, 2020
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Commentary: DISC – What Went Wrong? Pretty Much Everything

By David M. Greenwald In Davis, if you look at some of the private polls, most developments start out wit ...

By David M. Greenwald In Davis, if you look at some of the private polls, most developments start out with between 35 and 40 percent of the people automatically opposed to the project and they are pre ...

November 05, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Looking Ahead to the Housing Element Update Process

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 01, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Looking Ahead to the Housing Element Update Process

By Gloria Partida With the number of issues, a City faces, writing a monthly column should be easy. Howev ...

By Gloria Partida With the number of issues, a City faces, writing a monthly column should be easy. However, the abundance of choices and the speed with which one issue rises and wanes makes catching ...

November 01, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: One Alternative Way Forward on Measure J

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 01, 2020
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Commentary: One Alternative Way Forward on Measure J

By David M. Greenwald My expectation is that Measure J is likely to pass the electorate with at least 70 ...

By David M. Greenwald My expectation is that Measure J is likely to pass the electorate with at least 70 percent of the vote next month. I have long supported the renewal of Measure J but I was disap ...

October 01, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Student Opinion: Chronic Housing Insecurity in Davis: How it is now, where to get help, and how to help

Posted by Julietta Bisharyan
|Date: September 24, 2020
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Student Opinion: Chronic Housing Insecurity in Davis: How it is now, where to get help, and how to help

By Grant Schrader With a system that may be leveraged against them, unhomed Davis residents do have oppor ...

By Grant Schrader With a system that may be leveraged against them, unhomed Davis residents do have opportunities for assistance, and each of our readers can help, too. With the cost of living, ren ...

September 24, 2020
| by Julietta Bisharyan

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Commentary: (Measure) D Might Stand for Lack of Good Data

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 23, 2020
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Commentary: (Measure) D Might Stand for Lack of Good Data

By David M. Greenwald Rich Rifkin’s latest column is probably worthy of discussion—he says “Measure D” an ...

By David M. Greenwald Rich Rifkin’s latest column is probably worthy of discussion—he says “Measure D” and the “D is for ‘disaster.’” I would argue that the D might be better characterized as being f ...

September 23, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Student Housing and Commercial Space Post-COVID

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 17, 2020
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Commentary: Student Housing and Commercial Space Post-COVID

By David M. Greenwald I keep seeing people projecting that COVID will have a permanent impact on things l ...

By David M. Greenwald I keep seeing people projecting that COVID will have a permanent impact on things like student housing and UC Davis enrollment. All of this of course is subject to change, but ri ...

September 17, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: These Are Troubled Times and We Need to Get Real about Our Community’s Challenges

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 06, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: These Are Troubled Times and We Need to Get Real about Our Community’s Challenges

This week, former Davis Mayor Mike Corbett submitted a letter to the Editor of the Enterprise that genera ...

This week, former Davis Mayor Mike Corbett submitted a letter to the Editor of the Enterprise that generated a good amount of controversy and has generated some discussion as well. Don’t get me wrong ...

September 06, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Essay: The Dream House

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 04, 2020
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Essay: The Dream House

Editor’s note: the following is a long essay (3790 words) about one family’s attempt to sell and buy a Da ...

Editor’s note: the following is a long essay (3790 words) about one family’s attempt to sell and buy a Davis home. By Andy Jones Part 1 - Upending Our Lives “I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it ac ...

September 04, 2020
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Analysis: Looking at the Case against DISC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 28, 2020
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Analysis: Looking at the Case against DISC

By David M. Greenwald With the election coming up in just over two months, and ballots dropping in early ...

By David M. Greenwald With the election coming up in just over two months, and ballots dropping in early October, about five weeks away, it is good to start an in-depth look at the issue of the Davis ...

August 28, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: It Won’t Be This Year on Measure J

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 11, 2020
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Commentary: It Won’t Be This Year on Measure J

When Measure J—the original version—was put on the ballot in 2000, it was a tightly fought and hotly cont ...

When Measure J—the original version—was put on the ballot in 2000, it was a tightly fought and hotly contended election. It wound up winning relatively narrowly. The idea was to require a citizen’s ...

August 11, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Council Needs to Get As Many Thorny Issues Off the Table on DISC As Possible

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 20, 2020
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My View: Council Needs to Get As Many Thorny Issues Off the Table on DISC As Possible

Davis – In 2016, the Davis City Council put Nishi on the ballot. It was a good project that would add st ...

Davis – In 2016, the Davis City Council put Nishi on the ballot. It was a good project that would add student housing while at the same time add 300,000 square feet of R&D space that the city des ...

June 20, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Public and Council Solidly Behind Putting the Renewal of Measure J to a Vote

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 17, 2020
| (4) Comments

Public and Council Solidly Behind Putting the Renewal of Measure J to a Vote

Davis – The Davis City Council unanimously voted on Tuesday to put Measure J back on the ballot, acceptin ...

Davis – The Davis City Council unanimously voted on Tuesday to put Measure J back on the ballot, accepting staff’s minor technical changes to the City of Davis’ seminal land use ordinance that require ...

June 17, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: DISC Remains a Commercial Project with Housing, Not the Other Way Around

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 12, 2020
| (6) Comments

Commentary: DISC Remains a Commercial Project with Housing, Not the Other Way Around

When the city first issued its RFEI (Request for Expressions of Interest) for innovation centers way back ...

When the city first issued its RFEI (Request for Expressions of Interest) for innovation centers way back in 2013, we were living in a very different time. We had just come out of the Great Recessio ...

June 12, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Response to City of Davis Staff Report on the Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus – Baseline Features

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 10, 2020
| (21) Comments

Guest Commentary: Response to City of Davis Staff Report on the Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus – Baseline Features

by Richard McCann Submitted to the Planning Commission by Richard McCann, Member, Natural Resources Commi ...

by Richard McCann Submitted to the Planning Commission by Richard McCann, Member, Natural Resources Commission Response to City of Davis Staff Report on the Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campu ...

June 10, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Slew of Housing Bills Pass Committee

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 27, 2020
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Slew of Housing Bills Pass Committee

Tuesday was a big day for housing reform in California as a number of bills passed through the Senate Hou ...

Tuesday was a big day for housing reform in California as a number of bills passed through the Senate Housing Committee including ones that deal with density bonuses, grow the housing supply, expand a ...

May 27, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Senate Leaders Detail Housing Production Legislation Intended to Increase Supply, Aid California’s Economic Recovery

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 21, 2020
| (9) Comments

Senate Leaders Detail Housing Production Legislation Intended to Increase Supply, Aid California’s Economic Recovery

SACRAMENTO – In an effort to spur affordable housing production and aid California’s economic recovery ...

SACRAMENTO – In an effort to spur affordable housing production and aid California’s economic recovery due to the COVID-19 crisis, Senate Democrats unveiled a package of legislation today intended t ...

May 21, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Guest Commentary: DJUSD and Measure R/J

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 19, 2020
| (38) Comments

Guest Commentary: DJUSD and Measure R/J

By Mario Salvagno In order to maintain existing schools and operations, DJUSD imports 650 of their studen ...

By Mario Salvagno In order to maintain existing schools and operations, DJUSD imports 650 of their students from surrounding towns. The number continues to increase and may grow by an additional 1,000 ...

May 19, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Mayor Pro Tem Flips Script on Housing Discussion

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 07, 2020
| (78) Comments

Commentary: Mayor Pro Tem Flips Script on Housing Discussion

Measure R is working. We can get projects that are voted down by the public. We can get projects that a ...

Measure R is working. We can get projects that are voted down by the public. We can get projects that are approved by the public. That’s what we learned in 2018. That was the message delivered by ...

May 07, 2020
| by David Greenwald

| (78) Comments

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