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Commentary: New Housing Project Is Unlikely to Be a Major Impact on Mace

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 17, 2019
| (12) Comments

Commentary: New Housing Project Is Unlikely to Be a Major Impact on Mace

There was a letter in the local paper worried about the impact of the new Chiles Road Apartments project ...

There was a letter in the local paper worried about the impact of the new Chiles Road Apartments project on the Mace Boulevard congestion. The writer notes: “So the city recently heard from 150 folks ...

July 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Council Needs to Pause on Mace, Avoid Making Rash Decisions

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 20, 2019
| (4) Comments

My View: Council Needs to Pause on Mace, Avoid Making Rash Decisions

Prior to spring break, I picked up my 9th grader just after 5 pm on a Thursday evening, hit a wall of tra ...

Prior to spring break, I picked up my 9th grader just after 5 pm on a Thursday evening, hit a wall of traffic at the inflection point on the Mace Curve and sat in traffic for half an hour as we slowly ...

April 20, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Plaintiff Puts Forward Bad Arguments during Lincoln40 Hearing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 09, 2019
| (7) Comments

Commentary: Plaintiff Puts Forward Bad Arguments during Lincoln40 Hearing

It was always going to be an uphill battle to get a judge to change his mind on a tentative ruling, but w ...

It was always going to be an uphill battle to get a judge to change his mind on a tentative ruling, but what we saw on Friday from Patrick Soluri was just bad. One might go so far as to call it embar ...

April 09, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Does Mace Mean We Should Forget about MRIC?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 02, 2019
| (144) Comments

Commentary: Does Mace Mean We Should Forget about MRIC?

The traffic concerns that have emerged along Mace – whether part of the overall traffic problems along th ...

The traffic concerns that have emerged along Mace – whether part of the overall traffic problems along the I-80 corridor or generated by structural changes along the southern part of Mace have led som ...

April 02, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: The First Nishi Op-Ed

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 27, 2018
| (14) Comments

Analysis: The First Nishi Op-Ed

It has been a quiet start to the Measure R campaign for Nishi so far. Proponents of the student housing ...

It has been a quiet start to the Measure R campaign for Nishi so far. Proponents of the student housing development will likely see this as a good sign. Two years ago, there were already controversi ...

February 27, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Should Council Move Forward with Nishi as It Stands?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 22, 2018
| (65) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Should Council Move Forward with Nishi as It Stands?

When the Nishi project goes to the Planning Commission this week, it is doing so without a final and conc ...

When the Nishi project goes to the Planning Commission this week, it is doing so without a final and concrete project going with it. In October 2017, the property owners submitted a preliminary conce ...

January 22, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Bicycle, Transportation, and Street Safety Commission questions Sterling 2100 Fifth Street towers.

Posted by Don Sherman
|Date: November 09, 2016
| (1) Comment

Bicycle, Transportation, and Street Safety Commission questions Sterling 2100 Fifth Street towers.

We were gratified, last month to witness an impressively large turnout for Planning and Traffic Commissio ...

We were gratified, last month to witness an impressively large turnout for Planning and Traffic Commission meetings considering the Sterling/2100 Fifth Street Environmental Impact Report. About 24 cit ...

November 09, 2016
| by Don Sherman

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City Releases Draft EIR on Sterling Apartments

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 17, 2016
| (31) Comments

City Releases Draft EIR on Sterling Apartments

Another one of the more controversial proposals is the repurposing of the six-acre city property that for ...

Another one of the more controversial proposals is the repurposing of the six-acre city property that formerly housed the EMQ FamiliesFirst residential treatment facility, which has been closed since ...

September 17, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Closing Thoughts on Nishi’s Defeat and More

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 22, 2016
| (70) Comments

Analysis: Closing Thoughts on Nishi’s Defeat and More

In the end, with all of the strangeness of having to count 6000 to 7000 additional votes, the outcomes re ...

In the end, with all of the strangeness of having to count 6000 to 7000 additional votes, the outcomes really did not change. If anything, the final count bolstered the trend from Election Day, where ...

June 22, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Council to Consider EIR Project Alternatives for Sterling

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 11, 2016
| (23) Comments

Council to Consider EIR Project Alternatives for Sterling

The city of Davis has shifted course on the proposed Sterling Apartment project on 5th Street. Originall ...

The city of Davis has shifted course on the proposed Sterling Apartment project on 5th Street. Originally they were looking to go the route of a Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND, or Neg Dec), but ...

June 11, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (23) Comments

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Guest Commentary: Nishi Project Comes Up Short

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 02, 2016
| (22) Comments

Guest Commentary: Nishi Project Comes Up Short

By Mark Spencer If Davis wants to remain true to its vision of itself as a small city surrounded by ag an ...

By Mark Spencer If Davis wants to remain true to its vision of itself as a small city surrounded by ag and open space land, the few ag land parcels we choose to develop should reflect the very best in ...

June 02, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (22) Comments

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Guest Commentary: Last-Minute Questions about Measure A? Here Are Some Answers

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 01, 2016
| (9) Comments

Guest Commentary: Last-Minute Questions about Measure A? Here Are Some Answers

By Dan Carson I’ve been having conversations, lots of conversations, with hundreds of voters interested i ...

By Dan Carson I’ve been having conversations, lots of conversations, with hundreds of voters interested in Measure A on the June 7 ballot. Many have occurred at the ritual Saturday morning Farmer’s M ...

June 01, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (9) Comments

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Harrington Follows Through, Files Suit Against Hotel Conference Center Negative Declaration

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 20, 2015
| (128) Comments

Harrington Follows Through, Files Suit Against Hotel Conference Center Negative Declaration

On Friday, Attorney Don Mooney filed a lawsuit on behalf of Michael Harrington, and Supporters of Respons ...

On Friday, Attorney Don Mooney filed a lawsuit on behalf of Michael Harrington, and Supporters of Responsible Planning in Davis, an unincorporated association, against the city of Davis, challenging t ...

October 20, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (128) Comments

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Why Nishi Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 14, 2015
| (19) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Why Nishi Doesn’t Go Far Enough

Nishi is an interesting project from one perspective – it seems people either love it or they hate it. Fo ...

Nishi is an interesting project from one perspective – it seems people either love it or they hate it. For those who love it on the slow growth side, the appeal is that it is small, it is a project al ...

September 14, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (19) Comments

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Hotel-Conference Center Plans Are Revised

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 25, 2015
| (17) Comments

Hotel-Conference Center Plans Are Revised

According to the city of Davis, the property owner has submitted revised plans for the hotel-conference c ...

According to the city of Davis, the property owner has submitted revised plans for the hotel-conference center in response to city of Davis comments. “The proposed project is for a new six-story hotel ...

April 25, 2015
| by David Greenwald

| (17) Comments

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Commentary: A Lot of Dirt, Trucks, For Cannery

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 14, 2014
| (74) Comments

Commentary: A Lot of Dirt, Trucks, For Cannery

A few days ago, a press release came out of the city that there was a traffic alert for Road 102. The cit ...

A few days ago, a press release came out of the city that there was a traffic alert for Road 102. The city laid out that there was going to be a major effort to haul dirt created by the Surface Water ...

July 14, 2014
| by David Greenwald

| (74) Comments

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