Commentary: Davis Punts on Housing for 2024 - Davis Vanguard
2024年8月1日 · It could have been a very different year in Davis. The council could have moved the ball forward on housing by pushing for one of the Measure J projects to be on the ballot in November.
COMMENTARY: Homegrown Models for Expanding Davis
2023年11月10日 · Re: the Cannery — “ And lacking sufficient shade trees and hedges, it’s going to be hotter and drier than the older parts of our city. In contrast,” That is a huge problem with high-density housing. Irrigated vegetation and tree cover make neighborhoods habitable. 50 – 100 years from now, the lower-density neighborhoods in Davis will be much more liveable than the multi-story units ...
Commentary: How Should the City Engage the Community on …
2024年4月24日 · Eliminating Impact Fees only makes the fiscal crisis worse for localities like the City. We already start each year with a $14 million shortfall of revenues over expenses.
Commentary: Why State Action on Measure J Is Probably Inevitable
2024年5月8日 · will approve it. Further, the city might avoid the ultimate showdown by having the voters approve future Measure J projects. The problem I see is it is going to take more than one approval to address the housing requirements likely to be issued by the state in …
Commentary: Looking at the City/UC Davis Dynamic in ... - Davis …
2023年7月21日 · A lot of residents of Davis frankly blame UC Davis for forcing growth on the city of Davis. And there is a good amount of truth to that. The conversation quickly focuses on some notion of UC Davis taking on its share of the housing impacts of its growth.
Sunday Commentary: Can We Solve Our Affordable Housing …
2024年5月26日 · By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor. Davis, CA – We have now completed our speaker by speaker coverage of the Community Conversation on Housing (you can read the full series here).). As a result, I want to return to a critical question—if the solution is a housing trust fund, can we fund it?
Monday Morning Thoughts: The Hard Part Begins on Housing
2024年2月12日 · trigger. The needs of a new General Plan update would be better met by emulating the largely successful process of the Davis Downtown Plan and also the Housing Element Update in 2007-08—creating a broad-based community group that could be representative of the broader community, while at the same …
Commentary: The Floor Is Moving on the Davis Housing Discussion
2023年6月6日 · By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Today the Vanguard published a proposal for development...
Commentary: Business As Usual in Davis – When It Can’t Be
2023年10月27日 · I found two comments by the public particularly illuminating. The first was from a woman who said she lived at the Cannery who was against the project and, without any sign of self reflection, spoke about the traffic impacts a new housing development would bring.
Council to Move Forward with EIRs on Village, Shriners, Potential …
2023年6月21日 · Mayor Will Arnold. By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor. Davis, CA -Part two of the long range growth discussion may not have gone until 2 in the morning, as part one did two weeks ago, but the discussion lasted until 11 pm on Tuesday, with council ultimately deciding against a special district approach in East Davis and decided to move forward with a process that will allow Village Farms to ...