The Davis City Council is interested in establishing new innovation business opportunities that facilitate technology & business development in Davis. The City has received two planning applications for Innovation Centers: Mace Ranch Innovation Center, at the City’s eastern edge, and Davis Innovation Center, at the City’s western edge. These applications are in the planning process, both require Environmental Impact Reports, and eventually a public vote to annex the property into the city limits. The City & UC Davis are partnering on a 3rd site, Nishi Gateway, a mixed-use innovation district located in the Richards & Olive Drive area, south of the UC Davis main campus. For more specific information about the innovation center projects, please visit: http://community-development.cityofdavis.org/innovation-centers
Robb & Rochelle are hosting community meetings to listen and record concerns regarding these three projects. They will not be presenting information, they will be listening to concerns and questions. The meetings are not for project lobbying.
Meeting Options:
-Town Hall meetings for residents. These meetings will be a casual family-friendly drop-in format.
Town Hall Meeting Schedule:
Tuesday, March 31, 7-8 pm, Davis Senior Center-Activity room, 646 A Street
Saturday, April 11, 11a-12pm, New Harmony Apartment Complex, 3030 Cowell Blvd
Wednesday, May 27, 6:30-7:30pm, Emerson Junior High School-Indoor Commons,
2121 Calaveras Avenue
**Dates, times & locations subject to change**
-Office Hours – Groups can schedule a meeting with the sub-committee. Generally, the office hours will be on Tuesdays, prior to City Council meetings.
-Neighborhood/large group meetings can be scheduled by request.
If you would like to schedule an office hour appointment for your group or request a meeting, please contact Stacey Winton, Media & Communications Officer, swinton@cityofdavis.org, (530)757-5661
These are City scheduled meetings. The Project Developers may schedule their own meetings to provide information and/or promote their project.
Brilliant! Hopefully, either the City has included funding (obtained from developer application fees) for Full Page On-Line Banner and Print Ads announcing each of these events so that the message gets through the background noise surrounding all of our busy lives. As a community conceived convening effort, perhaps we could even recruit the Davis schools to send home an announcement to their families? Point being, we haven’t always done a good job of announcing and promoting important events of this kind, and there’s no time like the present to give it whirl.