Council’s Turn to Take Up Affordable Housing Ordinance Revisions
While staff is wanting to hear the council weigh in on the four key issues that both…
Planning Commission Recommends Council Retain Current Affordable Housing Ordinance until Further Study Can Be Done
The Davis Planning Commission became the first body to hear the new Affordable Housing Ordinance and the…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Affordable Housing Discussion Starts This Week at Planning Commission
On Wednesday, the Davis Planning Commission will get the first crack at looking at the new Affordable…
Commentary: Round and Round We Go on Plaza 2555 – Mega-Dorms Reconstituted or Needed Rental Housing?
Round and round we went yesterday on the issue of Plaza 2555. I think it’s important to…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Why Plaza 2555 Is Being Attacked as a Student Housing Project Is Not Clear
Last week Plaza 2555 went to the Davis Planning Commission, and the project got forwarded to council…
Sunday Commentary: Students Live in Housing Insecurity while Litigants Hold Up Projects
In the next few weeks we are expecting the full report from the UC Davis Affordable Housing…
More Details Emerge on Student Housing Survey
Last Sunday, Don Gibson published a much talked about guest commentary in the Vanguard. In it, he…
More Legal Threats against Davis Live; Commissioners and Applicants Push Back
The Soluri Meserve Law Firm has already filed two lawsuits against the city, filing California Environmental Quality…
Commission Unanimously Recommends Approval of Davis Live Housing Second Time Around
This time there would be no mistake. In May, the Planning Commission, while supportive of the Davis…
Student Housing Project Comes Back to the Planning Commission for a Second Time
Two months ago, the Davis Planning Commission rejected the student housing project, Davis Live Student Apartments. The…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Manufactured Dissent
One would think that plans to put an office complex on the corner of Mace and Alhambra,…
Monday Morning Thoughts: More Student Housing?
In the wake of the voter passage of Nishi, this is a question every governing body in…
My View: If Ever There Was a Place for Dense Student Housing… Davis Live Is It
If Eileen Samitz and the Davis Vanguard agree on one thing this year, it is that we…
Planning Commission Not Ready to Recommend Approval of Davis Live
The Planning Commission listened to the proposed Davis Live Student Apartment Project on Oxford Circle but, while…
Planning Commission Falls Short of Full Recommendation to Council of Senior Housing Project
Council has until mid-June to put the West Davis Active Adult Community on the ballot, but, based…
Planning Commission Shifts Gears in Their Recommendations on Dispensary Locations
When city staff went through and grouped the 13 applications for Conditional Use Permits (CUPs) into four…
A Dispensary Pushes Back against City Staff Ranking
The Vanguard noted in yesterday’s article that city staff heavily weighed opposition from neighbors against applications for…
Commentary: Should the Downtown Be the Location for Dispensaries?
This weekend, we inaccurately reported that the Planning Commission would approve up to four Conditional Use Permits…
Planning Commission to Approve up to Four Conditional Use Permits for Cannabis Retail Business
The second of a two-part meeting with take next Wednesday as the Planning Commission is set to…
Sunday Commentary: Will Dispensaries in the Downtown Lead to Revitalized Business or More Parking Impacts?
My view: This is probably more about the type of business, but the arguments against the businesses…
