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Commentary: Why Nishi?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 18, 2018
| (14) Comments

Commentary: Why Nishi?

Measure J/Measure R campaigns seem to have devolved into an exercise where the opponents of a project att ...

Measure J/Measure R campaigns seem to have devolved into an exercise where the opponents of a project attack the weaknesses of the project and the proponents of the project are forced to play defense ...

May 18, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: A Glance at the Nishi Ballot Arguments

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 23, 2018
| (44) Comments

Analysis: A Glance at the Nishi Ballot Arguments

In general, elections are not won and lost on the ballot arguments, but the Nishi ones are somewhat inter ...

In general, elections are not won and lost on the ballot arguments, but the Nishi ones are somewhat interesting because there is a good amount of disagreement over core contentions. I find it interest ...

March 23, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Transportation Picture Summed Up in One Chart

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 12, 2018
| (86) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Transportation Picture Summed Up in One Chart

This is the single most powerful chart on travel in Davis. It comes from the UC Davis Travel Survey and ...

This is the single most powerful chart on travel in Davis. It comes from the UC Davis Travel Survey and what it finds is rather profound while, at the same time, almost obvious. If you are concerned ...

March 12, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Nishi is On the Ballot, Can It Win?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 09, 2018
| (5) Comments

Commentary: Nishi is On the Ballot, Can It Win?

It’s quiet – too quiet? That was the reaction from a lot of people on Wednesday morning. They were wait ...

It’s quiet – too quiet? That was the reaction from a lot of people on Wednesday morning. They were waiting for the shoe to drop. The way it did in 2009 after the council voted 3-2 to put Wildhorse ...

February 09, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Lincoln40 Project Goes to the Planning Commission

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 06, 2018
| (11) Comments

Lincoln40 Project Goes to the Planning Commission

On Wednesday, the Lincoln40 project goes to the Planning Commission which will be asked to recommend to t ...

On Wednesday, the Lincoln40 project goes to the Planning Commission which will be asked to recommend to the council that that they certify the EIR as well as approve the Lincoln40 project planning app ...

January 06, 2018
| 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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My View: New Nishi Proposal Seeks to Fix Previous Problems; Addresses Student Housing Crisis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 14, 2017
| (95) Comments

My View: New Nishi Proposal Seeks to Fix Previous Problems; Addresses Student Housing Crisis

A lot of people were talking about Nishi’s new proposal yesterday and most viewed it in a positive light. ...

A lot of people were talking about Nishi’s new proposal yesterday and most viewed it in a positive light. There were a few points of negative feedback we received. On one end, some still felt that t ...

October 14, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Assessing the Impacts of Lincoln40 – Part 3, Will There Be a Pedestrian Crossing?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 10, 2017
| (106) Comments

Analysis: Assessing the Impacts of Lincoln40 – Part 3, Will There Be a Pedestrian Crossing?

On Sunday, Eileen Samitz wrote that “your articles continue to ignore and side-step the serious problems ...

On Sunday, Eileen Samitz wrote that “your articles continue to ignore and side-step the serious problems and impacts by a mega-dorm project like Lincoln40 and try to simplify it to a numbers or ratio ...

August 10, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: The Need for Evidence-Based Approaches

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 09, 2017
| (23) Comments

Sunday Commentary: The Need for Evidence-Based Approaches

I am a bit taken aback that my call for a more evidence-based approach to housing has seen pushback from ...

I am a bit taken aback that my call for a more evidence-based approach to housing has seen pushback from both sides. On the one hand, my call for a student housing study has been met with skepticism, ...

April 09, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (23) Comments

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My View: Divided Opposition to Sterling?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 08, 2017
| (78) Comments

My View: Divided Opposition to Sterling?

Much of this week, we have been assembling some data on the housing situation in order to better analyze ...

Much of this week, we have been assembling some data on the housing situation in order to better analyze the proposal for Sterling, which is now slated to go before council in just ten days. In the me ...

April 08, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (78) Comments

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Not Everyone on Board with Reduced Sterling

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 20, 2017
| (125) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Not Everyone on Board with Reduced Sterling

On Wednesday, the Planning Commission will review the Sterling project and recommend certification of the ...

On Wednesday, the Planning Commission will review the Sterling project and recommend certification of the EIR and approvals of planning applications. Staff notes, as the Vanguard reported last week, ...

March 20, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Is Scaled Down Sterling a Good Deal for Davis?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 17, 2017
| (20) Comments

Commentary: Is Scaled Down Sterling a Good Deal for Davis?

After the success of the conflict resolution process with the Hyatt House project, the city was quick to ...

After the success of the conflict resolution process with the Hyatt House project, the city was quick to get one started with the folks at Rancho Yolo who had concerns about the Sterling Project. It m ...

March 17, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (20) Comments

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My View: Should We Take Another Look at City Traffic Standards?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 11, 2017
| (31) Comments

My View: Should We Take Another Look at City Traffic Standards?

As I looked through the Sterling Apartments Final EIR, one of things that struck me was a typical complai ...

As I looked through the Sterling Apartments Final EIR, one of things that struck me was a typical complaint that commenters have made about most projects in Davis – the impact of the development on tr ...

February 11, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (31) Comments

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My View: Do We Have a Great and Vibrant Downtown?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 21, 2017
| (16) Comments

My View: Do We Have a Great and Vibrant Downtown?

The city of Davis is taking on an update of the core area portion of the General Plan. They initiated a ...

The city of Davis is taking on an update of the core area portion of the General Plan. They initiated a visioning platform for downtown and conducted a community survey during much of the month of No ...

January 21, 2017
| by David Greenwald

| (16) Comments

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Commentary: Council Needs to Prioritize Fixing Richards

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 20, 2016
| (28) Comments

Commentary: Council Needs to Prioritize Fixing Richards

A letter writer driving through the Richards Boulevard and Olive Drive area on Sunday afternoon described ...

A letter writer driving through the Richards Boulevard and Olive Drive area on Sunday afternoon described the situation as getting worse. She even saw perhaps nefarious intentions on the part of the ...

September 20, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (28) Comments

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Sunday Commentary: We Live Under a False Sense of Permanency in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 18, 2016
| (87) Comments

Sunday Commentary: We Live Under a False Sense of Permanency in Davis

A city that has been unable to develop on the periphery for two decades, starved for tax and new forms of ...

A city that has been unable to develop on the periphery for two decades, starved for tax and new forms of revenue and short on student housing, is increasingly looking at infill projects that pit new ...

September 18, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (87) Comments

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Commentary: How to Move Forward as a Community

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 06, 2016
| (110) Comments

Commentary: How to Move Forward as a Community

A few years ago, I was sitting in a meeting of the Innovation Parks Task Force, and, while there was a go ...

A few years ago, I was sitting in a meeting of the Innovation Parks Task Force, and, while there was a good-sized audience in the room for this type of meeting, it was glaringly obvious that the room ...

July 06, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (110) Comments

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My View II: When Should Nishi Return?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 25, 2016
| (116) Comments

My View II: When Should Nishi Return?

This weekend, the Enterprise has an editorial speculating about the future of Nishi, noting that the fina ...

This weekend, the Enterprise has an editorial speculating about the future of Nishi, noting that the final outcome for the project is now in the developers' hands, who “have to decide whether to shelv ...

June 25, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (116) Comments

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Analysis: Examining the Downfall of Nishi

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 10, 2016
| (112) Comments

Analysis: Examining the Downfall of Nishi

As I write this there are still about 6000 provisional and absentee ballots to be counted. Given the rel ...

As I write this there are still about 6000 provisional and absentee ballots to be counted. Given the relatively narrow margin that Nishi is going down, it would only take about 52.5 percent of the re ...

June 10, 2016
| by David Greenwald

| (112) Comments

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Undecided on Measure A? A Collection of Q&A

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 05, 2016
| (7) Comments

Undecided on Measure A? A Collection of Q&A

By Kemble K. Pope In these days of modern mass communication, it is very difficult to sort through, much ...

By Kemble K. Pope In these days of modern mass communication, it is very difficult to sort through, much less find, fact vs. fiction on public policy issues. Our local vote on Measure A is a rare and ...

June 05, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

| (7) Comments

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