Council Majority Votes to Maintain One-Percent Growth For Davis
by Simon Efrein At the recent Davis City Council Meeting, a side debate emerged during discussion of…
Housing Element Committee Agrees to Look At Covell Site for Future Development
Hold onto your hats folks, if last night was any indication of whats to come it is…
Commentary: Interesting Split on the Cannery Park Property
Friday’s Davis Enterprise captured an interesting debate within the progressive community as to what ought to be…
Councilmember Heystek Discusses His First Year on the Davis City Council
In the latest in my series of interviews, I discussed with Davis City Councilmember Lamar Heystek his…
Commentary: Do not be charging me with NIMBYism When I Oppose Your 600K Housing Development
Recently I was reading an article in Mother Jones of all places that caught my eye. The…
Should Davis Adopt an Urban Limit Line?
During the course of the debate last year over the creation of open space potentially on the…
Shriner’s Property Leads to Discussion on Open Space and Ag Preservation
Last week, the Davis City Council took up the issue of the possible acquisition of the Shriner’s…
Quasi-Live Blogging from City Council Chambers on Shriner’s Issue
It was my hope to blog the city council meeting live today, but the city has not…
Shriner’s Article in Enterprise Raises Suspicions and Questions About Process Involving Land Acquisition Issue
On Sunday the Davis Enterprise ran a front page, above-the-fold story on Councilmember Stephen Souza’s proposal for…
Why Do Democratic City Councils Plan Housing That Republicans Will Live In?
As I confess, the title of this post is not mine. It was in fact donated to…
Councilmember Souza Pursues Development Project
At the last council meeting, Councilmember Stephen Souza brought forward an item submitted as a councilmember for…
Commentary: Weintraub’s Critique of Davis Fails to Understand the Fundamentals of Liberalism
I read Daniel Weintraub’s critique of Davis in the Sacramento Bee: “Liberal town? Davis is white, wealthy…
Hard Work Behind the Scenes by Heystek and Provenza Helped Save the Pass-Through Agreement
Most people have probably seen the blow-by-blow via the Vanguard commentary on the Board of Supervisors as…
Commentary: Trader Joe’s Pronouncement of “Opening in 2008” Ups the Ante
There is “squandered” and then there is “SQUANDERED.” But I’m not sure I’ve ever seen someone this…
Plan to Preserve Ag Buffer Around the City Contains a Key Loophole
Those who read the Davis Enterprise’s coverage of the agricultural mitigation item missed a great deal of…
Is Davis Ready for Taller and More Box-like Downtown Buildings?
While the county continues its assault on the borders of the city of Davis from the outside,…
Proposing Senior Housing and Peripheral Growth in Davis
Many Davis residents were stunned earlier this year to hear that the county might be considering a…
Commentary: Tearing Down our City’s Character
It took me a long time to realize why the vote on Third and B Street “Visioning”…
Council Approves Zoning Change to Allow Densification at Third and B
The Davis City Council decided early this morning by a 3-1 vote to approve zoning changes to…
