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Guest Commentary: Four Reasons We Should Vote No on Measure B, the Ruinous DISC Plan

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|Date: October 15, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Four Reasons We Should Vote No on Measure B, the Ruinous DISC Plan

By Heather Caswell As the founder of Save Davis and owner of downtown Davis’ Wardrobe for the past 33 yea ...

By Heather Caswell As the founder of Save Davis and owner of downtown Davis’ Wardrobe for the past 33 years, I feel it is important that citizens stand up for our community and local businesses by vot ...

October 15, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: DISC Gains Enterprise Endorsement

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 28, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: DISC Gains Enterprise Endorsement

by David M. Greenwald The question with these things is always how much of an impact does a newspaper end ...

by David M. Greenwald The question with these things is always how much of an impact does a newspaper endorsement have for a project before the voters? Under the best of circumstances, probably not m ...

September 28, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Looking at the Case against DISC

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 28, 2020
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Analysis: Looking at the Case against DISC

By David M. Greenwald With the election coming up in just over two months, and ballots dropping in early ...

By David M. Greenwald With the election coming up in just over two months, and ballots dropping in early October, about five weeks away, it is good to start an in-depth look at the issue of the Davis ...

August 28, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Students Push Back after University Commons Setback at the Planning Commission

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 03, 2020
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Students Push Back after University Commons Setback at the Planning Commission

At last week’s Planning Commission meeting where the commission unanimously rejected the University Commo ...

At last week’s Planning Commission meeting where the commission unanimously rejected the University Commons redevelopment proposal, there was a notable element missing from the public comment period. ...

June 03, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: ARC Must Integrate Our City’s Exceptional Transportation System

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 15, 2020
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Guest Commentary: ARC Must Integrate Our City’s Exceptional Transportation System

By Joe Bolte The Aggie Research Campus SEIR forecasts that travel to the site will be overwhelmingly by c ...

By Joe Bolte The Aggie Research Campus SEIR forecasts that travel to the site will be overwhelmingly by car. It includes an unsustainable transportation plan that focuses on adding general traffic lan ...

May 15, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Ways to Improve the ARC Proposal

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 12, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Ways to Improve the ARC Proposal

We Need Commercial Space and an Innovation Center—That Doesn't Mean We Don't Need to Make Sure This Is ...

We Need Commercial Space and an Innovation Center—That Doesn't Mean We Don't Need to Make Sure This Is the Best Possible Project There was a lot of confusion—at least by one commenter—on the differe ...

April 12, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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BTSSC Recommends Certification of EIR for Aggie Research Campus

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 10, 2020
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BTSSC Recommends Certification of EIR for Aggie Research Campus

Twice Todd Edelman made motions to push discussion of the Aggie Research Campus to a second meeting for m ...

Twice Todd Edelman made motions to push discussion of the Aggie Research Campus to a second meeting for more discussion—neither time did his motion, once at the beginning and once at the end of the me ...

April 10, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Dunning Starts to Weigh in on Aggie Research Campus

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 05, 2020
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Sunday Commentary: Dunning Starts to Weigh in on Aggie Research Campus

It is interesting—and frankly kind of nice—to see that Bob Dunning on Friday and Sunday this week has wad ...

It is interesting—and frankly kind of nice—to see that Bob Dunning on Friday and Sunday this week has waded into the issue of Aggie Research Campus. This coming week’s council meeting deals almost ex ...

April 05, 2020
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Aggie Research Campus Project Improves Traffic Conditions at Busy Davis Intersections

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 15, 2020
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Aggie Research Campus Project Improves Traffic Conditions at Busy Davis Intersections

Reduces delay times and improves level of service on Mace Blvd. (From Press Release – ARC) – The Draft S ...

Reduces delay times and improves level of service on Mace Blvd. (From Press Release – ARC) – The Draft Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Aggie Research Campus project, released Fri ...

March 15, 2020
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Community Split and Commission Critical of ARC Proposal, Get Earful on Transportation and Traffic Impacts

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 27, 2020
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Community Split and Commission Critical of ARC Proposal, Get Earful on Transportation and Traffic Impacts

If the developers for the Aggie Research Campus (ARC) wanted critical feedback, they got it. Whether it ...

If the developers for the Aggie Research Campus (ARC) wanted critical feedback, they got it. Whether it was the mixed comments from the public or the largely critical ones from the Planning Commissio ...

February 27, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Some New Insights into Housing and Support for Development

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 26, 2019
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Commentary: Some New Insights into Housing and Support for Development

It was only two years ago when people were questioning whether a Measure R project – any Measure R projec ...

It was only two years ago when people were questioning whether a Measure R project – any Measure R project – could win. It was one thing for the 2005 Measure X, at the end of a huge swath of large de ...

December 26, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: The Year of the Band-Aid as Council Punts on Critical Long-Term Issues

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 22, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: The Year of the Band-Aid as Council Punts on Critical Long-Term Issues

2019 will likely be remembered as a year of tragedy. The year started with the tragic murder of young po ...

2019 will likely be remembered as a year of tragedy. The year started with the tragic murder of young police officer Natalie Corona on January 10 and in many ways was bookended by the murder-police s ...

December 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Is the Criticism of University Commons Warranted?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 16, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Is the Criticism of University Commons Warranted?

We got the first taste of what a debate on the University Commons is going to look like. Too dense. Wro ...

We got the first taste of what a debate on the University Commons is going to look like. Too dense. Wrong spot. Should remain commercial. Not enough parking. Shouldn’t be student housing. I want ...

December 16, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Caltrans Hosts Open House to Discuss Corridor Improvement Project

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 22, 2019
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Caltrans Hosts Open House to Discuss Corridor Improvement Project

It has gone from an afterthought to one of the biggest issues in town. The impact of I-80’s increased tr ...

It has gone from an afterthought to one of the biggest issues in town. The impact of I-80’s increased traffic and the increasing rate of cut-through traffic has led to more people using bypasses, exa ...

November 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Council Goes with Compromise on Mace – Back to Two Lanes, Keeps Protected Bike Path

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 20, 2019
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Council Goes with Compromise on Mace – Back to Two Lanes, Keeps Protected Bike Path

Nearly two dozen people spoke during public comment – there were fireworks on both sides of the issue, bu ...

Nearly two dozen people spoke during public comment – there were fireworks on both sides of the issue, but this time the public was relatively split. Council, as they have for years now, found the co ...

November 20, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Mace Mess – Calling It What It Is

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 05, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Mace Mess – Calling It What It Is

By Char Henwood Here’s what it is, folks: the Mace Mess is a very bad design. It was bad when conceived ...

By Char Henwood Here’s what it is, folks: the Mace Mess is a very bad design. It was bad when conceived in 2010, bad when the design was completed in 2013 (without a traffic study), and bad when ins ...

November 05, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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My View: Time to Call This What It Is – the I-80 Mess

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 26, 2019
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My View: Time to Call This What It Is – the I-80 Mess

There was a large showing on Thursday night on the issue of Mace Boulevard But city officials should be ...

There was a large showing on Thursday night on the issue of Mace Boulevard But city officials should be cautious about overreacting to that group’s message. Why? The demographic in that room was hea ...

October 26, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Five Early Thoughts on the Aggie Research Campus

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 14, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Five Early Thoughts on the Aggie Research Campus

We have been talking about Aggie Research Campus (ARC) for months already, but until this past week we ha ...

We have been talking about Aggie Research Campus (ARC) for months already, but until this past week we had not had an official application to look at. There remains a lot to look at in the next sever ...

October 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Addressing Housing, Jobs and Traffic is the Next Challenge For the City

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 20, 2019
| (62) Comments

My View: Addressing Housing, Jobs and Traffic is the Next Challenge For the City

One of the big questions is going to be for the next election cycle – just how big a driver is traffic co ...

One of the big questions is going to be for the next election cycle – just how big a driver is traffic concerns. If we look at the survey results, the percentage of those polled who saw traffic as th ...

July 20, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: New Mace Blvd Traffic Study Needed Before Making any More Changes

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 18, 2019
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Guest Commentary: New Mace Blvd Traffic Study Needed Before Making any More Changes

by Alan Pryor The City is in the midst of trying to formulate a plan to alleviate traffic congestion alon ...

by Alan Pryor The City is in the midst of trying to formulate a plan to alleviate traffic congestion along the Mace Blvd. corridor. Following are excerpts from the Staff Report presented to the Bicycl ...

July 18, 2019
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