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Sunday Commentary: Can Davis Bridge Its Own Divide?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 20, 2016
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Sunday Commentary: Can Davis Bridge Its Own Divide?

If Davis residents, who have more in common with each other than not, cannot come together on a common co ...

If Davis residents, who have more in common with each other than not, cannot come together on a common community vision, does that leave much hope for the bigger and deeper issues that divide this nat ...

November 20, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Campus Should Be Able to Avoid Housing at Russell Fields

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 19, 2016
| (91) Comments

My View: Campus Should Be Able to Avoid Housing at Russell Fields

In a lot of ways UC Davis seems to understand the political landscape in Davis, with regard to housing, f ...

In a lot of ways UC Davis seems to understand the political landscape in Davis, with regard to housing, fairly well. But the current LRDP (Long Range Development Plan) still has not removed the poten ...

November 19, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Citizens Urge Council to Push against Russell Fields

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 16, 2016
| (93) Comments

Citizens Urge Council to Push against Russell Fields

Members of the Davis community once again pushed back against a proposal by UC Davis to potentially put h ...

Members of the Davis community once again pushed back against a proposal by UC Davis to potentially put housing on three fields lining the southern end of Russell Boulevard. Sunny Shine delivered pack ...

November 16, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Fixing the South Entrance to Town

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 15, 2016
| (20) Comments

Commentary: Fixing the South Entrance to Town

Tonight the council will start looking into ways to fix the Richards-Olive area. While I appreciate the ...

Tonight the council will start looking into ways to fix the Richards-Olive area. While I appreciate the city looking at the “the Richards Blvd/Olive Drive area holistically by cross-analyzing combina ...

November 15, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Why is UCD Bent on Keeping Russell Field Discussion Alive?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 14, 2016
| (52) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Why is UCD Bent on Keeping Russell Field Discussion Alive?

To date, a Change.org petition that calls “upon the University of California Davis to keep the Russell, H ...

To date, a Change.org petition that calls “upon the University of California Davis to keep the Russell, Howard, Toomey and A-Street fields permanently as open playing fields in their current (2016) co ...

November 14, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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UCD Needs to “Step-Up” Like Other UCs to Build Far More On-Campus Housing

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 30, 2016
| (116) Comments

UCD Needs to “Step-Up” Like Other UCs to Build Far More On-Campus Housing

New on-line petition urging more UCD on-campus housing By Eileen Samitz In 2013 Chancellor Katehi launch ...

New on-line petition urging more UCD on-campus housing By Eileen Samitz In 2013 Chancellor Katehi launched her “UCD 2020 Initiative”, a non-mandated UCD campus plan to add 5,000 more students by 2020 ...

October 30, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: What Should UC Davis Do?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 10, 2016
| (14) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: What Should UC Davis Do?

A few years ago UC Davis seemed to be a power on the rise. Chancellor Linda Katehi seemed to have gotten ...

A few years ago UC Davis seemed to be a power on the rise. Chancellor Linda Katehi seemed to have gotten over her missteps that led to the pepper spray incident in November 2011. She was pushing a v ...

October 10, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The University’s LRDP and Russell Fields Conundrum

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 07, 2016
| (13) Comments

Commentary: The University’s LRDP and Russell Fields Conundrum

UC Davis, pressured by some in the community to provide more housing, made an unfortunate decision to pro ...

UC Davis, pressured by some in the community to provide more housing, made an unfortunate decision to propose housing along Russell Boulevard as a way to help meet that housing demand. In some respec ...

October 07, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (13) Comments

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Community Remains Opposed to Russell Fields Proposal as LRDP Open Hearing Looms

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 06, 2016
| (75) Comments

Community Remains Opposed to Russell Fields Proposal as LRDP Open Hearing Looms

While UC Davis has cut back on their plan for developing the Russell Fields in the latest draft LRDP, the ...

While UC Davis has cut back on their plan for developing the Russell Fields in the latest draft LRDP, they have not eliminated it. For residents, not just in the adjacent area, but throughout the com ...

October 06, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: On UCD Housing Obligations

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 30, 2016
| (115) Comments

Commentary: On UCD Housing Obligations

Next week, UC Davis will hold more public hearings on its Long Range Development Plan (LRDP). On the Van ...

Next week, UC Davis will hold more public hearings on its Long Range Development Plan (LRDP). On the Vanguard, we have discussed many of these issues at length, but I find the discussion fascinating ...

September 30, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: How Should the City Approach Student Housing?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 23, 2016
| (42) Comments

Commentary: How Should the City Approach Student Housing?

Yesterday’s article (Analysis: Additional Campus Housing Will Help but Will Not Solve Housing Problems) a ...

Yesterday’s article (Analysis: Additional Campus Housing Will Help but Will Not Solve Housing Problems) attempted to analyze the revisions to the Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) put forward by UC D ...

September 23, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (42) Comments

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Analysis: Additional Campus Housing Will Help but Will Not Solve Housing Problems

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 22, 2016
| (108) Comments

Analysis: Additional Campus Housing Will Help but Will Not Solve Housing Problems

This year the focus has shifted back toward housing and land use. There have been a core of citizens tha ...

This year the focus has shifted back toward housing and land use. There have been a core of citizens that have argued that the solution to the city’s housing problem is for UC Davis to build more hou ...

September 22, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (108) Comments

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Revised LRDP: Nishi Out, Russell Field Still There but Reduced

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 21, 2016
| (37) Comments

Revised LRDP: Nishi Out, Russell Field Still There but Reduced

The official draft planning scenario will be posted today, but the preview released on the UC Davis datel ...

The official draft planning scenario will be posted today, but the preview released on the UC Davis dateline site provides for some dramatic changes or, as UC Davis puts it, the plan “assumes a more c ...

September 21, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (37) Comments

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Analysis: Is On-Campus Housing Low-Hanging Fruit?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 07, 2016
| (101) Comments

Analysis: Is On-Campus Housing Low-Hanging Fruit?

For all of the complaining about the confining nature of Davis’ Measure R, which requires the conversion ...

For all of the complaining about the confining nature of Davis’ Measure R, which requires the conversion of agricultural land outside the city to go through a public vote, it is not all that clear tha ...

September 07, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Housing Crunch Primarily Generated by UC Growth and Lack of On-Campus Housing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 06, 2016
| (120) Comments

Commentary: Housing Crunch Primarily Generated by UC Growth and Lack of On-Campus Housing

The community remains divided on the issue of housing and, as we saw in the discussion on Sunday centerin ...

The community remains divided on the issue of housing and, as we saw in the discussion on Sunday centering on the Russell Boulevard fields, there are some sharp differences of opinion there. Many hav ...

September 06, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (120) Comments

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Commentary: Why Housing is a Bad Idea on Russell Fields

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 01, 2016
| (291) Comments

Commentary: Why Housing is a Bad Idea on Russell Fields

On Tuesday night a number of neighbors and other community members came to public comment to oppose the i ...

On Tuesday night a number of neighbors and other community members came to public comment to oppose the idea of the university building housing along Russell Boulevard over existing sports fields. Thi ...

September 01, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (291) Comments

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Neighbors Push Back against Russell and Howard Field Development

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 31, 2016
| (114) Comments

Neighbors Push Back against Russell and Howard Field Development

In pushing to extend their on-campus housing to 90 percent of new students over the next decade, UC Davis ...

In pushing to extend their on-campus housing to 90 percent of new students over the next decade, UC Davis is looking at developing the athletic fields along Russell Boulevard with potential three-stor ...

August 31, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (114) Comments

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Discussion: If UC Says Jump, Will We?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 28, 2016
| (131) Comments

Discussion: If UC Says Jump, Will We?

This week we have been discussing the issue of rental housing – how much housing the university should pr ...

This week we have been discussing the issue of rental housing – how much housing the university should provide, and how much the city should supply at this point. Clearly, there are disagreements in ...

July 28, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (131) Comments

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Discussion: How Much Rental Housing Do We Need, Who Should Provide It, Where?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 26, 2016
| (54) Comments

Discussion: How Much Rental Housing Do We Need, Who Should Provide It, Where?

On Sunday, I presented five questions I would want to ask the community if I were the city council. To a ...

On Sunday, I presented five questions I would want to ask the community if I were the city council. To answer one person’s question posed off-line, no I don’t see these questions taking the place of ...

July 26, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (54) Comments

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Monday Morning Thoughts I: UC-City of Davis Housing Issue is Ground Zero

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 25, 2016
| (24) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts I: UC-City of Davis Housing Issue is Ground Zero

Those who are supportive of a General Plan update need to understand where this process is most likely to ...

Those who are supportive of a General Plan update need to understand where this process is most likely to fall apart. Yesterday’s Sunday Commentary asked five specific questions, but the only question ...

July 25, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (24) Comments

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