Commentary: Being Available to Hold Council Meetings on Christmas
I have thought about this issue at another time in a different context, but there is one…
I have thought about this issue at another time in a different context, but there is one…
There have now been a couple of Hate Crime Incidents that have struck Davis in the last…
Last week ago, the issue of developer impact fees came up on the Vanguard in reference to…
By E.A. Roberts____________ Appearing in the Sunday, December 9th, 2007 Sacramento Bee was a wonderful article about…
As we have reported the Senior living facility, Atria Covell Gardens has said that they will be…
The City Council did, at Councilmember Stephen Souza’s motion, pull back the portion of the election code…
The Vanguard has learned that part of item 11 on tonight’s agenda has been pulled. This item…
In what figures to be an action-packed agenda this evening, the last meeting of 2007, the City…
You had to be very alert to notice it, but on the agenda for Tuesday night’s council…
When the owners of University Mall decided to sue Radiological Associates of Sacramento in an attempt to…
On November 27, the Vanguard reported on Atria Covell Gardens’s increased rents that would raise rent by…
If you read the Davis Enterprise’s Wednesday addition you would have seen a small and scant article…
As I sat in to listen and observe the City Of Davis Planning Commission meeting, the thought…
It was last summer that Yolo County received an offer from developer Angelo Tsakopoulos in exchange for…
It is with great irony that I opened an email on Saturday from Chair of the Open…
In June of 2006, members of the Davis Area Cooperative Housing Association (DACHA) came forward with a…
When Measure X was on the ballot, the council majority made it a point to talk about…
When I first came to Davis in the mid-1990s, I was very surprised that in a such…
Depending on your perspective, nights like Tuesday are what make Davis interesting, boring, and/ or at the very least unpredictable. Fifty to sixty people filed into Council Chambers to discuss the future of the Tank House. Ordinary alliances are disrupted for that night and the dispute boils down to two alternatives to the main project.
Alternative 3 is the staff recommended and owner preferred alternative. This alternative calls for a two story building between the Varsity Theater and the Hunt-Boyer Mansion and the Tank House to be demolished, moved, and then reconstructed to the west of a building. Ultimately that project alternative won out by a scant 3-2 vote.
Alternative 5 became the other option on this night. This was Richard Berteaux’s proposal. Quite frankly Rich Rifkin – and the artist rendering – sold me on this alternative, and it became my preferred alternative. This preferred alternative provided a greenhouse-type set up and the broader expanse of open space.
On November 24, 2007, Margaret Walker, President, associated residents of Covell Gardens, Davis, a senior living facility…