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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Look Back at Pre-Measure J Growth Projections Tells an Interesting Story

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 18, 2023
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Monday Morning Thoughts: A Look Back at Pre-Measure J Growth Projections Tells an Interesting Story

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – A reader shared a very interesting clip from a 1999 Da ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – A reader shared a very interesting clip from a 1999 Davis Enterprise article on Davis growth projections. What makes it interesting is the figures r ...

September 18, 2023
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Annexation Proposals Are Hastening Climate and Affordability Crisis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 25, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Annexation Proposals Are Hastening Climate and Affordability Crisis

by David J. Thompson This piece is a slightly longer piece based upon remarks to the Social Services Comm ...

by David J. Thompson This piece is a slightly longer piece based upon remarks to the Social Services Commission on Monday, August 21, 2023. Since 1983 in a professional role, I have helped gain approv ...

August 25, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Comments on Davis’ Obligation to Zone for Housing

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 16, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Comments on Davis’ Obligation to Zone for Housing

By David Taormino Based on various reader comments there is a serious misunderstanding about Davis' Regio ...

By David Taormino Based on various reader comments there is a serious misunderstanding about Davis' Regional Housing Needs Analysis (RHNA) obligations. Davis' obligation is to zone/build housing for n ...

August 16, 2023
| by Vanguard Administrator

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League of California Cities Applauds Trackside Ruling

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 27, 2022
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League of California Cities Applauds Trackside Ruling

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – The impact of an appellate court decision on Davi ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – The impact of an appellate court decision on Davis’ Trackside continues to reverberate. Last month, an appellate court reversed the decision by ...

January 27, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: No Extra Credit for Bed Rentals or Large Student Housing Projects

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 13, 2021
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Commentary: No Extra Credit for Bed Rentals or Large Student Housing Projects

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Slow growth advocates in the city have for the last fi ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Slow growth advocates in the city have for the last five or six years pushed for more housing on the UC Davis campus (which makes sense), but also op ...

August 13, 2021
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Davis Should Adopt Policies to Support Affirmative Furthering of Fair Housing in Housing Element Update

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 06, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Davis Should Adopt Policies to Support Affirmative Furthering of Fair Housing in Housing Element Update

By Don Gibson In this year's Davis Housing Element Update, Davis can take the progressive step of proacti ...

By Don Gibson In this year's Davis Housing Element Update, Davis can take the progressive step of proactively overcoming systematic class and ethnic inequalities by embracing policies promoted by a re ...

March 06, 2021
| by Vanguard Administrator

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SACOG Letter on DISC

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 23, 2020
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SACOG Letter on DISC

(The following is a letter to City Manager Mike Webb from SACOG regarding the Davis Innovation and Sustai ...

(The following is a letter to City Manager Mike Webb from SACOG regarding the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus, signed by James Corless, Executive Director.) This letter is in response to th ...

June 23, 2020
| by Vanguard Administrator

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City Granted Additional $2.7 Million for I-80/Richards Interchange Improvement

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 17, 2019
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City Granted Additional $2.7 Million for I-80/Richards Interchange Improvement

(From Press Release) – The City of Davis announced today that it has received an additional $2.7 million ...

(From Press Release) – The City of Davis announced today that it has received an additional $2.7 million in grant money for the I-80/Richards Interchange Improvement project from the Sacramento Area C ...

August 17, 2019
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Analysis: More Signs That Housing Requirements Are About to Rise

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 07, 2019
| (106) Comments

Analysis: More Signs That Housing Requirements Are About to Rise

There was a good piece earlier this week that looked at SACOG (Sacramento Area Council of Governments) an ...

There was a good piece earlier this week that looked at SACOG (Sacramento Area Council of Governments) and likely requirements for Cycle 6 of the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) which covers ...

August 07, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: We Need Economic Development While Addressing Income Inequality Regionally

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 18, 2019
| (7) Comments

Commentary: We Need Economic Development While Addressing Income Inequality Regionally

When I first started looking into the prospects for economic development, there were several key factors ...

When I first started looking into the prospects for economic development, there were several key factors that attracted me to it as a way to address the city’s revenue generation problems. As a unive ...

July 18, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Petition to Restore Mace to Four Vehicle Lanes Gains Traction

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 31, 2019
| (52) Comments

Petition to Restore Mace to Four Vehicle Lanes Gains Traction

So far 316 (as of press time) have signed a petition to ask the city of Davis to restore Mace Boulevard t ...

So far 316 (as of press time) have signed a petition to ask the city of Davis to restore Mace Boulevard to two lanes in both directions. (The petition on Change.org is located here.) According to Bra ...

March 31, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Contentious Mace Boulevard Construction Meeting at East Davis Fire House

Posted by Matt Williams
|Date: January 31, 2019
| (4) Comments

Contentious Mace Boulevard Construction Meeting at East Davis Fire House

by Matt Williams Between 100 and 150 community members jammed the East Davis Fire House Wednesday evening ...

by Matt Williams Between 100 and 150 community members jammed the East Davis Fire House Wednesday evening from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Fifty of the community were provided seats, but the rest of the atten ...

January 31, 2019
| by Matt Williams

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Fixing Richards Blvd At Least Partially Has Become Possible

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 17, 2018
| (18) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Fixing Richards Blvd At Least Partially Has Become Possible

Over the years, the city of Davis has attempted a number of fixes to the perpetual problem of traffic flo ...

Over the years, the city of Davis has attempted a number of fixes to the perpetual problem of traffic flow through the narrow Richards Corridor into the south end of the downtown. In the late 1990s, ...

December 17, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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City Gets Grant Funding For Richards Blvd Interchange Improvement, Other Projects

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 13, 2018
| (9) Comments

City Gets Grant Funding For Richards Blvd Interchange Improvement, Other Projects

The city of Davis will finally have the money needed to complete the I-80/ Richards Blovd Interchange Imp ...

The city of Davis will finally have the money needed to complete the I-80/ Richards Blovd Interchange Improvement Project that the city has been seeking to achieve for years now. The $5 million in gr ...

December 13, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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SACOG Approves $2.9 Million Grant For Installation of Electric Vehicle Charging and Mobility Hubs in Yolo County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 12, 2018
| (15) Comments

SACOG Approves $2.9 Million Grant For Installation of Electric Vehicle Charging and Mobility Hubs in Yolo County

(From Press Release) - The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) board of directors has approved ...

(From Press Release) - The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) board of directors has approved a $2.9 million grant to Valley Clean Energy (VCE) that will lay the foundation for increased e ...

December 12, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: More Student Housing?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 02, 2018
| (2) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: More Student Housing?

In the wake of the voter passage of Nishi, this is a question every governing body in Davis is likely to ...

In the wake of the voter passage of Nishi, this is a question every governing body in Davis is likely to ask. As I have pointed out before, given the university’s agreement to build 9050 beds and the ...

July 02, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Bike Share in Davis Is Not for Everyone

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 03, 2018
| (16) Comments

Bike Share in Davis Is Not for Everyone

Reasonable Inclusivity, and a Peer-Based Independent Mobility Threshold? Nope, Bike Share in Davis Is Not ...

Reasonable Inclusivity, and a Peer-Based Independent Mobility Threshold? Nope, Bike Share in Davis Is Not for Everyone. By Todd Edelman The wait is over and the regional JUMP bikeshare system g ...

March 03, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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City Awarded $3.54 Million for Bike/Ped Connection from East Olive Drive to Pole Line Road

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 22, 2017
| (33) Comments

City Awarded $3.54 Million for Bike/Ped Connection from East Olive Drive to Pole Line Road

Safe Routes to School Improvements for Montgomery Elementary (From Press Release) - On October 18, the ...

Safe Routes to School Improvements for Montgomery Elementary (From Press Release) - On October 18, the California Transportation Commission awarded the City of Davis $3.54 million to design and cons ...

October 22, 2017
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Are We Underestimating Housing Needs?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 28, 2017
| (76) Comments

Are We Underestimating Housing Needs?

A few weeks ago, the city council had a joint discussion with the Planning Commission which, among other ...

A few weeks ago, the city council had a joint discussion with the Planning Commission which, among other things, discussed housing needs. One of the ideas put forward was to pursue a healthy vacancy r ...

July 28, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Don’t Fix the Road because It Might Lead to Development

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 06, 2017
| (61) Comments

Commentary: Don’t Fix the Road because It Might Lead to Development

There are multiple problems with the Richards corridor in Davis. The most notable is that the number of ...

There are multiple problems with the Richards corridor in Davis. The most notable is that the number of vehicles moving through the main south entrance to downtown is too large for the road capacity. ...

June 06, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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