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Commentary: What Could Council Do about Measure J?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 19, 2023
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Commentary: What Could Council Do about Measure J?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Any reasonable accounting for the math suggests that t ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Any reasonable accounting for the math suggests that the city will not be able to meet its next RHNA cycle obligations—particularly on the affordable ...

July 19, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The Small Town Character of Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 11, 2023
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Commentary: The Small Town Character of Davis

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – I have told this story a few times before, I chose to ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – I have told this story a few times before, I chose to stay in Davis even though I would have trouble purchasing a house, largely because I preferred ...

July 11, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Expanding Davis Can Narrow Davis’ Wealth Gap – Or Not – Depends on What We Build

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 08, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Expanding Davis Can Narrow Davis’ Wealth Gap – Or Not – Depends on What We Build

By Alex Achimore Finally, the housing logjam seems to have broken. The recent announcements of three (!) ...

By Alex Achimore Finally, the housing logjam seems to have broken. The recent announcements of three (!) large infill housing projects on G Street is great news, and I may need to be counted as anothe ...

July 08, 2023
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Governor Announces $352 Million for Transit-Oriented, Climate-Friendly Housing in Underserved Communities

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|Date: July 06, 2023
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Governor Announces $352 Million for Transit-Oriented, Climate-Friendly Housing in Underserved Communities

Sacramento Area Council of Governments to receive $31.83 million to fund new green infill projects Sacram ...

Sacramento Area Council of Governments to receive $31.83 million to fund new green infill projects Sacramento, CA – On Wednesday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced more than $352 million in the first ro ...

July 06, 2023
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Sunday Commentary: The City of Davis Should Consider Actually Ending Its Inclusionary Housing Requirements

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 02, 2023
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Sunday Commentary: The City of Davis Should Consider Actually Ending Its Inclusionary Housing Requirements

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Housing affordability is perhaps THE most important is ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Housing affordability is perhaps THE most important issue facing the city of Davis. But ironically the more I look at the numbers and consider the u ...

July 02, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Council Needs to Push for 25 Percent Affordable on Peripheral Projects

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 27, 2023
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Commentary: Council Needs to Push for 25 Percent Affordable on Peripheral Projects

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The city council on Tuesday night will determine what ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The city council on Tuesday night will determine what the new “permanent” affordable housing ordinance will look like. Staff continues to recommend ...

June 27, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Infill or Peripheral? We Need Housing, Period

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 25, 2023
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Sunday Commentary: Infill or Peripheral? We Need Housing, Period

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Is it infill or peripheral? That’s a little side deba ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Is it infill or peripheral? That’s a little side debate between Mike Corbett and Eileen Samitz. Writes Eileen Samitz: “A recent letter by Mike Corbe ...

June 25, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Score One for the Do-Something Crowd

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 22, 2023
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Commentary: Score One for the Do-Something Crowd

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – For decades in Davis, the debate was between slow grow ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – For decades in Davis, the debate was between slow growth/no growth and pro-growth camps (although that division is a bit simplistic). But in the las ...

June 22, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: How Big Does Davis Need to Be? College Towns Analysis Part 3 – Long-Term Planning.

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 20, 2023
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Guest Commentary: How Big Does Davis Need to Be? College Towns Analysis Part 3 – Long-Term Planning.

by Tim Keller In parts one and two of this series, I tried to come up with some objective/analytical meth ...

by Tim Keller In parts one and two of this series, I tried to come up with some objective/analytical method for trying to gauge demand for housing in Davis. I undertook this work because of a core be ...

June 20, 2023
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My View: The Council Has a Chance to Pave a Reasonable Path Forward, but They Must Act

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 17, 2023
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My View: The Council Has a Chance to Pave a Reasonable Path Forward, but They Must Act

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – When we last saw the council, it was around 2 am and t ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – When we last saw the council, it was around 2 am and the council decided to continue their discussion of Long Range Growth Options until June 20. Th ...

June 17, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Third Project Filed for G St Corridor

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 13, 2023
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Third Project Filed for G St Corridor

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – We are still waiting for the Davis Ace project ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – We are still waiting for the Davis Ace project to officially drop, but between that, 4th and G, and the Lumberyards, Davis is looking at 454 u ...

June 13, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: How Big Should Davis Be? University Towns – Part 2

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|Date: June 12, 2023
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Guest Commentary: How Big Should Davis Be? University Towns – Part 2

By Tim Keller In my commentary last Monday I revealed some research into comparable “university towns” si ...

By Tim Keller In my commentary last Monday I revealed some research into comparable “university towns” similar in character to Davis, in order to see if there were any trends that could be used to pre ...

June 12, 2023
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: The Council Failed to Act Again – Now What?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 11, 2023
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Sunday Commentary: The Council Failed to Act Again – Now What?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It was two in the morning on Wednesday morning and I’m ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It was two in the morning on Wednesday morning and I’m still getting texts— “where is the urgency” and “doesn’t the council care that there is a hous ...

June 11, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Still No Urgency on Housing – But the Clock Is Ticking

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 08, 2023
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Commentary: Still No Urgency on Housing – But the Clock Is Ticking

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Time is not our friend in this. Council was acutely a ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Time is not our friend in this. Council was acutely aware of this fact at 1 AM as Mayor Will Arnold suggested the discussion be continued—perhaps to ...

June 08, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The Floor Is Moving on the Davis Housing Discussion

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 06, 2023
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Commentary: The Floor Is Moving on the Davis Housing Discussion

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Today the Vanguard published a proposal for developmen ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Today the Vanguard published a proposal for development planning priorities. The very fact that the list of signers include some of the current lead ...

June 06, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Development Planning Priorities for Davis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 06, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Development Planning Priorities for Davis

by Judy Corbett, Alan Hirsch, Roberta Millstein, Alan Pryor, Bob Schneider, David J. Thompson, Colin Wals ...

by Judy Corbett, Alan Hirsch, Roberta Millstein, Alan Pryor, Bob Schneider, David J. Thompson, Colin Walsh, Stephen Wheeler, James Zanetto, and the Sierra Club Yolano Group Develop infill oppor ...

June 06, 2023
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Guest Commentary: How Much Additional Housing Does Davis Need to Meet Demand?

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 05, 2023
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Guest Commentary: How Much Additional Housing Does Davis Need to Meet Demand?

By Tim Keller Almost two years ago, I wrote an article here in the Vanguard attempting to ask the questio ...

By Tim Keller Almost two years ago, I wrote an article here in the Vanguard attempting to ask the question: How big should our city be? ( That article can be found here). My motivation for writing t ...

June 05, 2023
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: Can Davis Solve Its Housing Needs Only Through Infill? I Don’t Think So

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 04, 2023
| (29) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Can Davis Solve Its Housing Needs Only Through Infill? I Don’t Think So

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It was a provocative article in which Judy Corbett arg ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It was a provocative article in which Judy Corbett argued, “It appears that there are already enough opportunities for the City to provide the 7,036 ...

June 04, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Densifying Davis – A Four-Part Strategy

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 02, 2023
| (23) Comments

Guest Commentary: Densifying Davis – A Four-Part Strategy

By Robb Davis The views expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not represent the views of his em ...

By Robb Davis The views expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not represent the views of his employer or any community organization of which he is a member. The City of Davis cannot successf ...

June 02, 2023
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Project Submitted for the Hibbert Site

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 01, 2023
| (46) Comments

Project Submitted for the Hibbert Site

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The city of Davis is counting on roughly 1000 units in ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The city of Davis is counting on roughly 1000 units in the Davis Downtown by 2029. This week, they have already received a preliminary application f ...

June 01, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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