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Climate Change, Sustainability and Housing – And the Need For Organizing the Community

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 04, 2023
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Climate Change, Sustainability and Housing – And the Need For Organizing the Community

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – One of the important aspects of the Davis CAN presenta ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – One of the important aspects of the Davis CAN presentations from Sunday was their efforts to tie together a whole host of strands. One of the speake ...

May 04, 2023
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My View: Going Negative Already in DiSC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 26, 2022
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My View: Going Negative Already in DiSC

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA - On the one hand, Measure J campaigns almost ensure th ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA - On the one hand, Measure J campaigns almost ensure that the opposition has to go negative—after all, without pointing out the flaws of the prospecti ...

March 26, 2022
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DiSC 2022 Returns to the Planning Commission This Week

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 09, 2022
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DiSC 2022 Returns to the Planning Commission This Week

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA - Just 14 months after the initial project came before t ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA - Just 14 months after the initial project came before the voters and lost, DiSC 2022 returns to the Planning Commission for consideration of the reduc ...

January 09, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Feeding People, Not the Landfill

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 20, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Feeding People, Not the Landfill

By Michael Bisch The Yolo County Board of Supervisors a couple of weeks ago took a bold step toward incre ...

By Michael Bisch The Yolo County Board of Supervisors a couple of weeks ago took a bold step toward increasing surplus edible food recovery in Yolo County, by adopting a new Sustainability Plan advanc ...

May 20, 2021
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Student Opinion: Dubai’s Sustainable City Becomes A Utopian Image of A Society

Posted by Julietta Bisharyan
|Date: January 26, 2021
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Student Opinion: Dubai’s Sustainable City Becomes A Utopian Image of A Society

By Michelle Moreno Lira Dubai recently announced that they will be creating a sustainable city powered by ...

By Michelle Moreno Lira Dubai recently announced that they will be creating a sustainable city powered by solar panels and utterly dependent on natural resources. This is part of their plan to make Du ...

January 26, 2021
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Guest Commentary: Davis Voters Have Opportunity to Empower Sustainable Future Technologies

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 24, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Davis Voters Have Opportunity to Empower Sustainable Future Technologies

By Barry Broome and Justin Siegel The Sacramento region is working diligently to regain its footing after ...

By Barry Broome and Justin Siegel The Sacramento region is working diligently to regain its footing after COVID-19 swept the nation. One of the key projects to our regional recovery is the Davis Innov ...

October 24, 2020
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Guest Commentary: A Different Vision for the DISC 200 Acres

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 22, 2020
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Guest Commentary: A Different Vision for the DISC 200 Acres

by Juliette Beck A little over twelve years ago when I was pregnant with my first child and deciding whet ...

by Juliette Beck A little over twelve years ago when I was pregnant with my first child and deciding whether to move to Davis to join my sister in raising our families here, I looked at the air qualit ...

October 22, 2020
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Letter: Approve Measure B and Set the Bar Higher

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|Date: October 22, 2020
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Letter: Approve Measure B and Set the Bar Higher

By Gerry Braun Measure B would authorize development of the Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus ...

By Gerry Braun Measure B would authorize development of the Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus (“DISC”) north of I-80 and east of Mace Boulevard. I support Measure B because I believe DISC’s ...

October 22, 2020
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Guest Commentary: DISC Will Bring Sustainable Jobs to Davis

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 08, 2020
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Guest Commentary: DISC Will Bring Sustainable Jobs to Davis

by Maynard Skinner I am writing in support of the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus as someone w ...

by Maynard Skinner I am writing in support of the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus as someone who has been an active and involved member of Davis local governance and policy making during fo ...

October 08, 2020
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Analysis: Can DISC Gain Approval in Measure R Vote?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 10, 2020
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Analysis: Can DISC Gain Approval in Measure R Vote?

Unprecedented is probably an overused term in politics. But the local political scene this year probably ...

Unprecedented is probably an overused term in politics. But the local political scene this year probably fits that notion to a tee. We have district elections, we have November city council races with ...

July 10, 2020
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Unanimous Council Puts DISC on the Ballot for November

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 08, 2020
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Unanimous Council Puts DISC on the Ballot for November

There are no guarantees in Davis politics — Nishi learned that in 2016 when a unanimous vote by the Counc ...

There are no guarantees in Davis politics — Nishi learned that in 2016 when a unanimous vote by the Council still ended up with a project rejection. But the Council and developers lifted the Davis In ...

July 08, 2020
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Opposition to the Innovation Campus Dries Up, Council to Vote Next Week

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 01, 2020
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Opposition to the Innovation Campus Dries Up, Council to Vote Next Week

If public comment were a match between two prized fighters, they would have stopped it long before we got ...

If public comment were a match between two prized fighters, they would have stopped it long before we got to the end of it. In the end, 67 people spoke about the Davis Innovation & Sustainability ...

July 01, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Tonight Is the Night for DISC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 30, 2020
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Commentary: Tonight Is the Night for DISC

Ten days ago, in our Saturday column “My View,” I argued that the council needed to get as many thorny is ...

Ten days ago, in our Saturday column “My View,” I argued that the council needed to get as many thorny issues off the table as possible. Since then, the city staff and developer have moved the projec ...

June 30, 2020
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Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus Will Go Before the Council on Tuesday

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 27, 2020
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Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus Will Go Before the Council on Tuesday

Davis: It has been a long and time a contentious process, but on Tuesday, the council will get to weigh i ...

Davis: It has been a long and time a contentious process, but on Tuesday, the council will get to weigh in on the DISC (Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus) project in what figures to be the ...

June 27, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Council Needs to Get As Many Thorny Issues Off the Table on DISC As Possible

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 20, 2020
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My View: Council Needs to Get As Many Thorny Issues Off the Table on DISC As Possible

Davis – In 2016, the Davis City Council put Nishi on the ballot. It was a good project that would add st ...

Davis – In 2016, the Davis City Council put Nishi on the ballot. It was a good project that would add student housing while at the same time add 300,000 square feet of R&D space that the city des ...

June 20, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Planning Commission Hears Presentation, Listens to Huge Number of Public Commenters

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 11, 2020
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Planning Commission Hears Presentation, Listens to Huge Number of Public Commenters

The Planning Commission decided relatively early that they would not attempt to make a decision on Wednes ...

The Planning Commission decided relatively early that they would not attempt to make a decision on Wednesday night. That’s because what turned out to be 100 people spoke (or more to the point, left m ...

June 11, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Response to City of Davis Staff Report on the Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus – Baseline Features

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 10, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Response to City of Davis Staff Report on the Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campus – Baseline Features

by Richard McCann Submitted to the Planning Commission by Richard McCann, Member, Natural Resources Commi ...

by Richard McCann Submitted to the Planning Commission by Richard McCann, Member, Natural Resources Commission Response to City of Davis Staff Report on the Davis Innovation & Sustainability Campu ...

June 10, 2020
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Members of the DPAC Reflect on the Downtown Plan and Experience

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 22, 2019
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Members of the DPAC Reflect on the Downtown Plan and Experience

Last week, after a multi-year process, the city came out with a Draft Downtown Plan. That of course mark ...

Last week, after a multi-year process, the city came out with a Draft Downtown Plan. That of course marks not the end of the process by which the city will adopt its Core Area Specific Plan, but rath ...

October 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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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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The Issue of Energy Efficiency at the WDAAC

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 13, 2018
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The Issue of Energy Efficiency at the WDAAC

By Richard McCann I am an energy and environmental economics consultant who works on pricing and planning ...

By Richard McCann I am an energy and environmental economics consultant who works on pricing and planning issues, including on greenhouse gas emission mitigation. I am a member of the Valley Climate A ...

April 13, 2018
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