Monday Morning Thoughts: EIR Certification Issue at MRIC Raises Some Interesting Issues
Can a project without an application have an EIR certified? The answer, according to city staff, is…
Commentary: Litigation Appears to End Hope of a Davis Hotel Conference Center
Last fall, the Vanguard made a simple request of the city, seeking to ascertain the direct cost…
Monday Morning Thoughts: MRIC Should Not Ask for Certification of EIR without a Project
Here we go again. The Vanguard believes that the city needs an innovation center at Mace. It…
Commentary: Discussion of How to Meet Housing Needs Remains Vital
In yesterday’s column, we put forward the issue of housing needs. As we put it, some have…
Commentary: Trackside Raises Critical Issue for the City
The neighbors of Trackside posed the issue of the city’s planning by exception. They wrote that the…
My View: We Don’t Need Radical Change, but We Do Need to Break Paralysis
Contrary to some, I don’t see Davis in a renaissance, I see it in a slow and…
Commentary: Pause the General Plan Process, We Need a More Unified Vision of the Future
Last week the Davis City Council was united in the idea of moving forward with a general…
Commentary: Thoughts on a New General Plan
The last time we started talking about a new general plan in Davis, I was opposed to…
Sunday Commentary: Trust Issues and, Once Again, How Do We Fix Them?
The first major undertaking for the new council, the general plan update, got off to a slightly…
Commentary: Should We Just Forget about Development Issues for Another 10 to 15 Years?
Yesterday’s suggestion for a path forward toward community consensus triggered some interesting discussions, but one of the…
Commentary: How to Move Forward as a Community
A few years ago, I was sitting in a meeting of the Innovation Parks Task Force, and,…
Commentary: Is Davis Sustainable?
In the aftermath of the defeat of the Nishi project, the Vanguard has sought to continue a…
My View II: When Should Nishi Return?
This weekend, the Enterprise has an editorial speculating about the future of Nishi, noting that the final…
Commentary: Measure R Isn’t Going to Go Away, but Neither Are Measure R Projects
The ink was barely dry on the apparent defeat of Measure A a few weeks ago when…
BREAKING NEWS: Final Count Confirm Defeat of Nishi by 693 Votes
The final count is in. The Yolo Elections Office has finished counting ballots and Nishi, the only…
Commentary: What Disappointing End to MRIC Means for Big Picture of Economic Development in Davis
In the spring of 2014, Davis had three projects on the front burner to create the space…
Breaking News: MRIC Pulls Out
After making a late effort to put the Mace Ranch Innovation Center in a stripped down version…
Commentary: Measure R Has Not Produced a Good Community Planning Process
As I write this, the Vanguard has learned that Mace Ranch Innovation Center has withdrawn its proposal. …
Commentary: The First Answer Doesn’t Have to Be NO
The Mace Ranch Innovation Center (MRIC) proposal coming back to council has lit up a normally low…
Sunday Commentary: Lack of Trust Slowing Us Down
The school board has a saying, we move at the speed of trust. It is a phrase…
