Commentary: What We Have Learned from the Parking Discussion
The appeal of the Davis Ace parking project led to one of the more unique occurrences on…
Commentary: Paid Parking Is the Gorilla in the Room
The comments by the Davis City Council regarding the proposed Davis Ace Project were instructive. They were…
Council Allows Ace Parking Project to Move Forward
It spawned a far broader and far more important debate than the decision over a simple project…
Commentary: Thoughts on Parking and Core Area Specific Planning
For the last several weeks a council item on in-lieu parking fees, and now an appeal of…
It’s About Our Downtown, Not 15 Parking Spaces
By Joshua Chapman The Ace parking lot project on 3rd Street is coming before the Davis City…
Revisiting: What Is Missing in Downtown Davis?
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the Vanguard on October 30, 2014, and written by…
Please Support Davis Ace, Property Rights and the Freedom to Pursue Economic Vitality
By Jason Taormino It feels like an affront to common sense that anyone would try to stop…
Staff Recommends Council Deny Appeal of Ace Hardware Decision
On May 10, the Davis Planning Commission approved a Conditional Use Permit for a parking lot with…
In Defense of Parking Lots
By Don Shor Over the last few days we’ve been treated to some discussion of basic principles…
Yogi Berra: “It’s A Permanent Placeholder”
By Michael Bisch Commissioner Rutherford to applicant (57:00): “And then as for allowing this use [parking lot]…
When East Is West and North Is South
By Michael Bisch “On-site parking shall not be placed in front of buildings along sidewalks; there shall…
Commentary: Parking As a Generational Issue?
For much of the last week or so, key Vanguard discussions have focused around the issue of…
Rethinking Parking
“We don’t want developers to build surface lots. And our zoning, still to this day, is based…
Starry-Eyed Utopian Greenies
by Michael Bisch ““Parking craters”: The latest terminology used by some to abdicate responsibilities associated with development.”…
Downtown Vision and “Mini” Parking Craters
As the Davis community continues the conversation around creating a vision for our downtown, updating our Core…
Parking Craters: Scourge of American Downtowns
from STREETFILMS www.streetfilms.org Angie Schmitt, editor of Streetsblog USA and originator of the “parking crater” term is blunt…
Commentary: What Davis Really Needs Is a New RDA
When I first sat down and met with Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, she was the mayor of Winters and…
A Downtown Perspective on Parking In-Lieu Fees
By Michael Bisch “Public parking spaces serving multiple uses can be expected to be better utilized, and…
Can Revisions to Parking In-Lieu Fees Help Solve Downtown Parking Problems?
On Tuesday, council will hear proposals from city staff on how to revise parking in-lieu fees for…
Pathways to a Brighter Downtown
(From Press Release) – We in the Davis community have any number of unmet needs. Here’s an…
