FAQ from the City about Downtown Parking
Is there a change being made by the City to the parking downtown? We are taking steps…
Monday Morning Thoughts: More Student Housing?
In the wake of the voter passage of Nishi, this is a question every governing body in…
Commentary: The City Looks to Public Input on Downtown Planning
As part of the city’s efforts at developing a Core Area Specific Plan, the city has a…
Analysis: Majority of Council Candidates Opposed to Building Downtown Parking Structures
There is an overlap with several different schools of thought which converge to create opposition to building…
Guest Commentary: Parking Shmarking!! Accessing Downtown.
by Todd Edelman Yesterday the Davis Vanguard asked the nine candidates for City Council: “The city of…
Council to Decide on Approval of Lincoln40
The city council has already approved Sterling and Nishi (pending the Measure R ratification) in hopes of…
Lincoln40 Project Goes to the Planning Commission
On Wednesday, the Lincoln40 project goes to the Planning Commission which will be asked to recommend to…
City’s DT Transportation Consultant to Suggest How Tech Innovation Can Affect Downtown Planning
By Judy Corbett Jeff Tumlin, Internationally Recognized Transportation Expert, Speaking Wednesday Dec. 6 at 7 PM in…
My View: Turning Our Attention to the Core Area Specific Plan
It is with a sense of relief that we can now move on from Trackside. The Trackside…
Sunday Commentary: Should We Create Places in Town for People with Fewer Cars?
The issue of parking is of course a critical issue in Davis that seems to pop up…
Sunday Commentary: What Should Davis Do about the Downtown?
This week a discussion and debate over the Davis Ace parking lot proposal became an entry point…
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…
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…
