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Commentary: Abusing CEQA Is Hurting Us All

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 12, 2018
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Commentary: Abusing CEQA Is Hurting Us All

Yesterday I was reading through the material on Field + Pond and one of the things that struck me was how ...

Yesterday I was reading through the material on Field + Pond and one of the things that struck me was how neighbors were suing under CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) to stop a development t ...

July 12, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Student Housing Crisis Not Over Just Yet

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 03, 2018
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Commentary: Student Housing Crisis Not Over Just Yet

Was talking with the developer from Sterling on Monday. Some might have noticed that the land for the St ...

Was talking with the developer from Sterling on Monday. Some might have noticed that the land for the Sterling project has been cleared, but the construction is not underway just yet. Was told that ...

July 03, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: No Need to Reinvent the Wheel on Economic Development, We Already Have the Plan

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 01, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: No Need to Reinvent the Wheel on Economic Development, We Already Have the Plan

In the weeks that have followed the June election, the Vanguard has met with pretty much the entire incom ...

In the weeks that have followed the June election, the Vanguard has met with pretty much the entire incoming city council, as well as members of the community and city staff. One issue that is a matt ...

July 01, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Studies Link Housing with Traffic, but in the Opposite Way that You Think

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 27, 2018
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Commentary: Studies Link Housing with Traffic, but in the Opposite Way that You Think

It never fails in Davis, you have a housing project and the opposition will make the argument that it wil ...

It never fails in Davis, you have a housing project and the opposition will make the argument that it will increase traffic. Even in the case of Nishi, where the new version intentionally avoided the ...

June 27, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Why Did Measure J Succeed Where Others Failed?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 23, 2018
| (28) Comments

My View: Why Did Measure J Succeed Where Others Failed?

The final results are in and Measure J not only won, but won overwhelmingly by a 60.5 to 39.4 percent mar ...

The final results are in and Measure J not only won, but won overwhelmingly by a 60.5 to 39.4 percent margin. The Vanguard has analyzed the precinct level data and found that one of the keys is that ...

June 23, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Last Count Doesn’t Change Election Results

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 15, 2018
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Last Count Doesn’t Change Election Results

They are not done, but the county has released the results of just under 10,000 new ballots countywide, w ...

They are not done, but the county has released the results of just under 10,000 new ballots countywide, with just over 4000 of them being from Davis. Unofficially that leaves them with just under 900 ...

June 15, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Is This Really What We Want?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 14, 2018
| (20) Comments

Commentary: Is This Really What We Want?

As the community has engaged in a conversation on student housing, some have argued that UC Davis needs t ...

As the community has engaged in a conversation on student housing, some have argued that UC Davis needs to take on more on-campus housing. I think most people agree with that sentiment. Some have pu ...

June 14, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Look At UC Housing and LRDP Post- Nishi

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 11, 2018
| (100) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: A Look At UC Housing and LRDP Post- Nishi

UC Davis has agreed to increase its overall on-campus housing allotment from 28 percent currently to 48 p ...

UC Davis has agreed to increase its overall on-campus housing allotment from 28 percent currently to 48 percent. That comes to 9050 additional beds over the next decade, with 5200 of them to be built ...

June 11, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: The Decline of Old School Progressivism in Davis?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 10, 2018
| (35) Comments

Sunday Commentary: The Decline of Old School Progressivism in Davis?

In 2016, it was notable that, while opponents of Nishi were able to narrowly defeat the measure, all four ...

In 2016, it was notable that, while opponents of Nishi were able to narrowly defeat the measure, all four of the council candidates supported Nishi. In 2018, that shifted. Larry Guenther described hi ...

June 10, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Nishi as a Referendum on Measure R

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 09, 2018
| (92) Comments

My View: Nishi as a Referendum on Measure R

Had Nishi been defeated in the Measure R vote on Tuesday, I believe that this would have been the beginni ...

Had Nishi been defeated in the Measure R vote on Tuesday, I believe that this would have been the beginning of the end of the measure as we know it. Measure R gets a reprieve by the resounding victor ...

June 09, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Nishi Wins Big – What Does It Mean?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 08, 2018
| (12) Comments

Analysis: Nishi Wins Big – What Does It Mean?

Even with a lot of ballots still remaining, the chances that the results on Measure J, Nishi, change from ...

Even with a lot of ballots still remaining, the chances that the results on Measure J, Nishi, change from Tuesday are very remote. This will be the first of three articles analyzing this result. Thi ...

June 08, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Nishi Looks Like It Will Become the First Successful Measure R Project

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 06, 2018
| (24) Comments

Nishi Looks Like It Will Become the First Successful Measure R Project

While it seems unlikely that the same day absentees will impact the outcome – in fact they may be more li ...

While it seems unlikely that the same day absentees will impact the outcome – in fact they may be more likely to expand the lead – Nishi still faces legal challenges, but for now it is set to become t ...

June 06, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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We Talked to Students – They Don’t Agree Nishi Is Unaffordable

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 05, 2018
| (26) Comments

We Talked to Students – They Don’t Agree Nishi Is Unaffordable

In a provocative piece published yesterday in the Vanguard, Rik Keller argued that the market rate units ...

In a provocative piece published yesterday in the Vanguard, Rik Keller argued that the market rate units at Nishi “will be among the most expensive, if not the most expensive rental units in town, and ...

June 05, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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An Examination of the Affordability of the Nishi Project/Measure J: Expensive and Overcrowded

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 04, 2018
| (40) Comments

An Examination of the Affordability of the Nishi Project/Measure J: Expensive and Overcrowded

By Rik Keller Based on extensive analysis of the Nishi project I did using my long-term professional expe ...

By Rik Keller Based on extensive analysis of the Nishi project I did using my long-term professional experience as an affordable housing and city planning consultant, I found that there is a lot of di ...

June 04, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Long List of Authors with a Long List of Problems with Nishi, but…

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 04, 2018
| (25) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: A Long List of Authors with a Long List of Problems with Nishi, but…

The list of authors is long, it’s a list of longtime progressives mixed with some new faces: Cara Bradley ...

The list of authors is long, it’s a list of longtime progressives mixed with some new faces: Cara Bradley, Thomas Cahill, Gilbert Coville, Pam Gunnell, Marilee Hanson, Michael Harrington, David Kupfer ...

June 04, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (25) Comments

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Letter: We Need Nishi

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 04, 2018
| 0 comments

Letter: We Need Nishi

By Maynard Skinner When I was first elected to City Council in 1966, Davis was an entirely different plac ...

By Maynard Skinner When I was first elected to City Council in 1966, Davis was an entirely different place. We saw the city more than double from around 3,500 to almost 9,000. During my time as Mayor ...

June 04, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: Analyzing the Council Candidates

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 03, 2018
| (27) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Analyzing the Council Candidates

In 2010 and 2012, during the heart of the recession, there was no talk about housing and land use issues ...

In 2010 and 2012, during the heart of the recession, there was no talk about housing and land use issues during the council campaigns. The focus was on fiscal issues for the most part. Measure R, th ...

June 03, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Are We Really Going to Debate about Whether There’s a Housing Crisis?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 02, 2018
| (45) Comments

My View: Are We Really Going to Debate about Whether There’s a Housing Crisis?

Matt Williams makes an interesting point, but he makes several critical mistakes in attempting to explain ...

Matt Williams makes an interesting point, but he makes several critical mistakes in attempting to explain away the student housing crisis. He shows that housing difficulties have existed for the past ...

June 02, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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What Even Is A “Progressive” Anyway?

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 01, 2018
| (48) Comments

What Even Is A “Progressive” Anyway?

By Neil Ruud As another self-proclaimed progressive, I’m a bit confused about how to vote this year. Am I ...

By Neil Ruud As another self-proclaimed progressive, I’m a bit confused about how to vote this year. Am I supposed to vote to “poison toddlers” or should I be more concerned with the protection of end ...

June 01, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (48) Comments

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Commentary: Who Gets Harmed As We Debate Over Process and the Perfect?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 31, 2018
| (35) Comments

Commentary: Who Gets Harmed As We Debate Over Process and the Perfect?

In this long debate over Nishi, I perhaps agree with Matt Williams on one thing – the system is in fact b ...

In this long debate over Nishi, I perhaps agree with Matt Williams on one thing – the system is in fact broken, but not as he describes. I think it is broken because we cannot provide for the basic n ...

May 31, 2018
| by David Greenwald

| (35) Comments

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