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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
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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
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Commentary: Do We Need an Additional Traffic Study on Mace?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 19, 2019
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Commentary: Do We Need an Additional Traffic Study on Mace?

Most of Alan Pryor’s guest commentary deals with the current conditions on Mace and the need to study tra ...

Most of Alan Pryor’s guest commentary deals with the current conditions on Mace and the need to study traffic prior to making changes on Mace – but he also points to the 800-pound gorilla as being the ...

July 19, 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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Commentary: New Housing Project Is Unlikely to Be a Major Impact on Mace

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 17, 2019
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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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Sunday Commentary: Progressive Boomers Blocking Housing Fixes – Part of a New Generational Struggle

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 14, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Progressive Boomers Blocking Housing Fixes – Part of a New Generational Struggle

A few days ago, the Huffington Post ran a lengthy article that found, “Progressive Boomers Are Making It ...

A few days ago, the Huffington Post ran a lengthy article that found, “Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing Crisis,” and “Residents of wealthy neighborhoods are t ...

July 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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City Provides Updates to Plans at Mace

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 11, 2019
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City Provides Updates to Plans at Mace

After receiving complaints about changes to the Mace Boulevard roadway, the city has gone back to the dra ...

After receiving complaints about changes to the Mace Boulevard roadway, the city has gone back to the drawing board and is laying out plans to fix some of the worst concerns including the congestion a ...

July 11, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Why I Ride: A Conversation With Clark Fitzgerald

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 06, 2019
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Why I Ride: A Conversation With Clark Fitzgerald

by Lisa Montanaro of The Bike Campaign Clark Fitzgerald first started riding a bike on a consistent basis ...

by Lisa Montanaro of The Bike Campaign Clark Fitzgerald first started riding a bike on a consistent basis in 2007. He came back from Afghanistan, where he had been deployed as a member of the military ...

July 06, 2019
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City Council Passes 2019-20 Budget

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 19, 2019
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City Council Passes 2019-20 Budget

2019-20 City Budget Funds Public Safety Measures, Transportation Infrastructure Improvements and Customer ...

2019-20 City Budget Funds Public Safety Measures, Transportation Infrastructure Improvements and Customer Service Technology Upgrades June 18, 2019 –The City of Davis announced that the Davis City Cou ...

June 19, 2019
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Pedaling Love: Life Viewed from the Vantage Point of Two Wheels

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 31, 2019
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Pedaling Love: Life Viewed from the Vantage Point of Two Wheels

by Lisa Montanaro In the summer of 2012, I relocated from New York to Northern California, specifically, ...

by Lisa Montanaro In the summer of 2012, I relocated from New York to Northern California, specifically, to the college town of Davis. There are many things that make Davis a fabulous place to live: f ...

May 31, 2019
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Commentary: How Our Downtown Plan Measures Up

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 14, 2019
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Commentary: How Our Downtown Plan Measures Up

Davis has been moving closer to a draft Downtown Plan that figures to transform the downtown – just how m ...

Davis has been moving closer to a draft Downtown Plan that figures to transform the downtown – just how much is open to debate and some believe that the plan we are developing is pretty radical while ...

May 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Council Looks to Fix Mace and San Marino Intersection

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 12, 2019
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Council Looks to Fix Mace and San Marino Intersection

While the council looked at longer-term fixes for Mace Boulevard back when they met last on April 23, one ...

While the council looked at longer-term fixes for Mace Boulevard back when they met last on April 23, one of the quick and relatively inexpensive fixes will be at the corner of Mace and San Marino, wh ...

May 12, 2019
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Downtown Committee Meets to Consider Options for New Downtown Specific Plan

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 01, 2019
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Downtown Committee Meets to Consider Options for New Downtown Specific Plan

One of the big questions facing the community as we draw to the end of the current RHNA (Regional Housing ...

One of the big questions facing the community as we draw to the end of the current RHNA (Regional Housing Needs Allocation) cycle is where housing will go in the future, given limitations on developin ...

May 01, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Mace Before the Redesign Was Dangerous for Kids and Bicyclists

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 27, 2019
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My View: Mace Before the Redesign Was Dangerous for Kids and Bicyclists

Following my commentary on Mace from Thursday in which we called for El Macero residents to pay for their ...

Following my commentary on Mace from Thursday in which we called for El Macero residents to pay for their fair share of the roadway revisions that they were demanding, I received a letter in response ...

April 27, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Bike Campaign Swings into Gear to Reduce Traffic and Congestion

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 26, 2019
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Bike Campaign Swings into Gear to Reduce Traffic and Congestion

With L Street under construction for the foreseeable future, Fifth Street has taken on much more congesti ...

With L Street under construction for the foreseeable future, Fifth Street has taken on much more congestion than normal. The downtown remains impacted by parking shortages during peak hours. Is there ...

April 26, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Should El Macero Residents Pay for Their Portion of the Roadway Upgrades?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 25, 2019
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Commentary: Should El Macero Residents Pay for Their Portion of the Roadway Upgrades?

On Tuesday night, the Davis City Council agreed at least in principle to have a design firm make revision ...

On Tuesday night, the Davis City Council agreed at least in principle to have a design firm make revisions to the now complete Mace Boulevard project. One of the interesting factors on Tuesday night ...

April 25, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Council Approves Changes, Will Have Experts Come Up with Design Proposal on Mace

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 24, 2019
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Council Approves Changes, Will Have Experts Come Up with Design Proposal on Mace

The Davis City Council passed two motions on Tuesday night with respect to Mace Boulevard – the first ask ...

The Davis City Council passed two motions on Tuesday night with respect to Mace Boulevard – the first asking staff to immediately make changes to the Mace and San Marino intersection, along with the t ...

April 24, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Proposal Won’t Solve Mace Problems, Could Make It Worse

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 22, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Proposal Won’t Solve Mace Problems, Could Make It Worse

When the Davis City Council attempted to address the paid parking pushback, they installed a compromise t ...

When the Davis City Council attempted to address the paid parking pushback, they installed a compromise that on paper seemed rather reasonable. With large numbers of businesses and citizens up in arm ...

April 22, 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
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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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City Proposes Revisions for Mace Blvd. Corridor

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 19, 2019
| (24) Comments

City Proposes Revisions for Mace Blvd. Corridor

After several public meetings with citizen complaints about the redesigned Mace Boulevard, staff is recom ...

After several public meetings with citizen complaints about the redesigned Mace Boulevard, staff is recommending that council proceed with further design revisions for the corridor which were referred ...

April 19, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Solution for Mace is to Regulate Traffic at Mace and Montgomery

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 18, 2019
| (21) Comments

Guest Commentary: Solution for Mace is to Regulate Traffic at Mace and Montgomery

By Jason Taormino The problem with the Mace Blvd traffic is Waze and other mapping solutions. They are re ...

By Jason Taormino The problem with the Mace Blvd traffic is Waze and other mapping solutions. They are rerouting drivers off of highway 80, down Treemont and up Mace Blvd on Thursday and Friday evenin ...

April 18, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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