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Commentary: Getting Realistic Figures for Air Quality Concerns

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 05, 2017
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Commentary: Getting Realistic Figures for Air Quality Concerns

One of the key questions I have been asking since we have started the air quality discussion with the Nis ...

One of the key questions I have been asking since we have started the air quality discussion with the Nishi project has been what these risk analysis rates actually mean. For instance, if we talk abo ...

December 05, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Addressing the Issue of Air Quality at Nishi

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 03, 2017
| (15) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Addressing the Issue of Air Quality at Nishi

On the surface, it might appear that Nishi version 2.0 will have a much easier time of passing than its p ...

On the surface, it might appear that Nishi version 2.0 will have a much easier time of passing than its predecessor. After all, the two biggest issues – the issue of traffic impacts on Richards Boule ...

December 03, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Apartments for All is Just Rhetoric for Justifying Not Building Student Housing in Town

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 02, 2017
| (124) Comments

My View: Apartments for All is Just Rhetoric for Justifying Not Building Student Housing in Town

This weekend Eileen Samitz continues her crusade against mega-dorms and for more “apartments designed for ...

This weekend Eileen Samitz continues her crusade against mega-dorms and for more “apartments designed for all” with an op-ed in the local paper. However, the main thrust of her piece is not housing fo ...

December 02, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Nishi Proposal To Be Heard by Various Commissions this Month

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 29, 2017
| (20) Comments

Nishi Proposal To Be Heard by Various Commissions this Month

Back in October, the owners of the Nishi property revived their proposed project about 16 months after Me ...

Back in October, the owners of the Nishi property revived their proposed project about 16 months after Measure A was narrowly defeated at the polls. The project is back as an exclusively student hous ...

November 29, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Nishi 2.0 Is an Environmental Injustice

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 13, 2017
| (32) Comments

Guest Commentary: Nishi 2.0 Is an Environmental Injustice

by Roberta Millstein Proponents of the revised Nishi project –– Rich Rifkin being the most recent -- have ...

by Roberta Millstein Proponents of the revised Nishi project –– Rich Rifkin being the most recent -- have dismissed the air quality concerns raised by Dr. Tom Cahill and others. But to allow this proj ...

November 13, 2017
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: What’s a Mega-Dorm Anyway?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 12, 2017
| (96) Comments

Sunday Commentary: What’s a Mega-Dorm Anyway?

As a rental crunch that has the city at a 0.2 percent vacancy pushes forward a slew of new housing projec ...

As a rental crunch that has the city at a 0.2 percent vacancy pushes forward a slew of new housing projects – notably the already approved Sterling Apartments, along with the proposed Lincoln40, Plaza ...

November 12, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The Battle of Neighbors vs. Densification and Infill

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 07, 2017
| (14) Comments

Commentary: The Battle of Neighbors vs. Densification and Infill

In the year 2000, after a decade of large scale peripheral growth in Davis, the voters narrowly said that ...

In the year 2000, after a decade of large scale peripheral growth in Davis, the voters narrowly said that they wanted to have a say in all future peripheral projects and they backed Measure J, mandati ...

November 07, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Is the Future of Environmentalism More Development?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 05, 2017
| (34) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Is the Future of Environmentalism More Development?

This week there was a fascinating article in the publication Grist, describing a 2009 meeting between Sco ...

This week there was a fascinating article in the publication Grist, describing a 2009 meeting between Scott Wiener who was then president of his neighborhood association in San Francisco’s Castro dist ...

November 05, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Approved and Planned Apartment Unit Breakdown for Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 02, 2017
| (7) Comments

Approved and Planned Apartment Unit Breakdown for Davis

With all of the approved and now proposed projects for multifamily housing coming down the pike in Davis, ...

With all of the approved and now proposed projects for multifamily housing coming down the pike in Davis, it is helpful to be able to have a clear picture of what is being proposed and where. The City ...

November 02, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Speaking of the Need for Housing for Families

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 01, 2017
| (108) Comments

Commentary: Speaking of the Need for Housing for Families

Yesterday’s commentary, responding to a letter talking about the need for housing that works for families ...

Yesterday’s commentary, responding to a letter talking about the need for housing that works for families, got me thinking for awhile on the need for housing for families in Davis. I can speak from p ...

November 01, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Campaign Launched to Push Back against Student Housing in the City

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 31, 2017
| (53) Comments

Commentary: Campaign Launched to Push Back against Student Housing in the City

The issue of student housing has taken front and center in the current public policy debate in the city o ...

The issue of student housing has taken front and center in the current public policy debate in the city of Davis. This is unfortunate, as most residents agree at this time there is insufficient housi ...

October 31, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Changes to Trains Could Affect Nishi Assessment

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 30, 2017
| (38) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Changes to Trains Could Affect Nishi Assessment

When Thomas Cahill laid out his concerns about Nishi in a recent op-ed in the local paper, he cited among ...

When Thomas Cahill laid out his concerns about Nishi in a recent op-ed in the local paper, he cited among other things new data showing that diesel from trains “is six times more toxic than diesel fro ...

October 30, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Building More Student Housing Will Reduce Traffic Impacts in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 29, 2017
| (47) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Building More Student Housing Will Reduce Traffic Impacts in Davis

The Davis City Council has already approved the Sterling Apartments, it is set to hear Lincoln40 and, las ...

The Davis City Council has already approved the Sterling Apartments, it is set to hear Lincoln40 and, last week, the council agreed to move forward with the application of Nishi. All told, those thre ...

October 29, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Cahill’s ‘New Information’ Doesn’t Get Us Around the Same Problem

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 28, 2017
| (32) Comments

My View: Cahill’s ‘New Information’ Doesn’t Get Us Around the Same Problem

UC Davis Professor Emeritus Tom Cahill has published an article in the local paper that calls for “update ...

UC Davis Professor Emeritus Tom Cahill has published an article in the local paper that calls for “updated science on Nishi air quality.” In an email to the Vanguard, he said, “I am once again in the ...

October 28, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The Logical Problem of Air Quality Concerns at Nishi

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 27, 2017
| (83) Comments

Commentary: The Logical Problem of Air Quality Concerns at Nishi

Tim Ruff, the project manager and one of the owners at Nishi, believes that the development team has done ...

Tim Ruff, the project manager and one of the owners at Nishi, believes that the development team has done as much as they can to address community concerns about things like traffic impacts, affordabl ...

October 27, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (83) Comments

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Commentary: City Has More Than One Crisis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 26, 2017
| (86) Comments

Commentary: City Has More Than One Crisis

It remains to be seen if the new version of Nishi proves to be less of a flashpoint issue than the origin ...

It remains to be seen if the new version of Nishi proves to be less of a flashpoint issue than the original one. However, it would be helpful if people understood that the city has more than one “cri ...

October 26, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Sideshows Aside, This Election Is Going to Come Down to Big Issues

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 24, 2017
| (37) Comments

Commentary: Sideshows Aside, This Election Is Going to Come Down to Big Issues

The 2016 campaign was uneventful from start to finish. Maybe it was due to the fact that it was never in ...

The 2016 campaign was uneventful from start to finish. Maybe it was due to the fact that it was never in doubt who would be elected (although the order was perhaps unexpected). Maybe it was due to t ...

October 24, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (37) Comments

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Sunday Commentary: Overstating the Health Risk at Nishi

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 22, 2017
| (94) Comments

Sunday Commentary: Overstating the Health Risk at Nishi

Critics of the Nishi project have pointed toward air quality concerns as a reason to potentially oppose s ...

Critics of the Nishi project have pointed toward air quality concerns as a reason to potentially oppose student housing on the site. They cite the EIR as evidence of the potentially significant impac ...

October 22, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (94) Comments

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Commentary: Can Davis Pass a Measure R Vote?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 20, 2017
| (11) Comments

Commentary: Can Davis Pass a Measure R Vote?

I must admit I have always found this question to be irksome because the reality is that, while Measure J ...

I must admit I have always found this question to be irksome because the reality is that, while Measure J was first enacted in 2000, there were votes on projects like Wildhorse well before that. The ...

October 20, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (11) Comments

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Commentary: The Rising Importance of Student Housing Issue Could Lead Us to Nishi

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 19, 2017
| (100) Comments

Commentary: The Rising Importance of Student Housing Issue Could Lead Us to Nishi

When I studied political science my work centered on public opinion and mass communications. From the bo ...

When I studied political science my work centered on public opinion and mass communications. From the body of literature comes the notion of agenda setting, which argues that the media’s coverage has ...

October 19, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (100) Comments

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