Commentary: Did the Old East Neighbors Overplay Their Hand?
The Vanguard received reports of people in Old North Davis receiving a flyer urging them to come…
My View: The Challenge of Trackside
After nearly two and a half years of contention and debate, city staff is now recommending that…
City Responds to Comments on Trackside’s Environmental Review
Instead of doing an EIR as the environmental review for the Trackside Center, which is scheduled to…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Trackside, Too Big Is in the Eye of the Beholder
The question that will go before council next week on Trackside is going to be a tough…
Commentary: Sideshows Aside, This Election Is Going to Come Down to Big Issues
The 2016 campaign was uneventful from start to finish. Maybe it was due to the fact that…
Deadline Passes with 37 People Applying to CAAC
Yesterday was the extended deadline to apply for the Core Area Advisory Committee (CAAC). The Vanguard filed…
Trackside 3.0 Balances the Need for Housing with Sensible Growth
by Rhonda Reed, Larry Guenther, Mark Grote, Robert Canning, and Cathy Forkas The Old East Davis Neighborhood…
Systemic Injustice – The Follow Up
By Mark West Last week I publicly called out the social inequities inherent in the process the…
Sunday Commentary: How Much Will the Housing Package Passed by the Legislature Impact Davis?
The California legislature did not sit back on the sidelines as California plunges into a huge housing…
Sunday Commentary: The Inequity of the CAAC Process
At Wednesday’s (September 13) planning commission meeting, member Darryl Rutherford raised the issue of fairness of the…
My View: Giving Adjacent Neighbors 20 percent of Voting Seats on CAAC A Mistake
The city this week announced that they were extending the application period for the Core Area Advisory…
Systemic Injustice – The Davis Disconnect
by Mark West “Social justice is the concept of fair and just relation between the individual…
My View: Trackside Neighbors’ Tactics Are Doomed
The Old East Davis Neighborhood Association has focused much of its attention on what it views as…
Mission Residence: A Cautionary Tale
Last week, Mayor Pro Tem Brett Lee warned about the power of three, stating that “the zoning…
Commentary: “It Only Takes Three”
Zoning and Design Guidelines Do Not Provide the Protection Many Believe The Vanguard has argued the need…
Mayor Pro Tem on the Core Area Specific Plan
“(T)he zoning is the zoning until the city council changes the zoning. Sometimes we feel that there’s…
Commentary: The Council as Decision-Maker on Project Proposals and Design-Guidelines
Last week the Planning Commission approved the application for Trackside but rejected the Initial Study and Design…
Council Agrees to Core Area Advisory Committee
The Davis City Council on Tuesday had a discussion of the consent item which created an advisory…
Letter: Thoughts on Parking and the Davis Downtown
By Jason Taormino The Davis Vanguard is hosting an important forum this evening on Downtown Davis. I…
City to Look Further into Downtown Parking
Back in June, the issue of the Davis Ace Hardware proposed additional parking lot generated considerable discussion…
