Monday Morning Thoughts: More on Trackside and the Core Area Specific Plan
Yesterday’s column argued that the city may need to update its Core Area Specific Plan (CASP) before…
Sunday Commentary: Trackside Debate Illustrates Need for CASP Update
I have mixed feelings on the need to do a new General Plan. Or at least a…
Trackside to Hold Public Hearing on Initial Study
Next week, the Davis Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on the Trackside Center project, as…
Five Things the Council Should Do by the Start of 2017
With the council elections and now the national elections over, it is time for the Davis City…
Analysis: Neighbors Continue Opposition to Trackside
If there was any remaining hope that a compromise might be reached between the neighbors and the…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Density and Location of Growth
Last week we had an extended conversation without much resolution about the need for and location of…
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…
Guest Commentary: Trackside Developers Respond to Neighbors’ Concerns
by Steve Greenfield and Kemble Pope Two years ago, over 40 Davisites decided to invest in our…
Neighbors Remain Opposed to Revised Trackside Proposal
By Rhonda Reed, Cathy Forkas, Alan C. Miller, Mark Grote and Steve Kaltenbach Trackside Partners LLC has…
Sunday Commentary: Optimism Gives Way to Challenging Times for the City
This week in a column that urged the city to recommit to an Economic Development Strategy, we…
Davis Chamber Comes Out in Favor of Trackside Project
The Davis Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday came out in favor of “the updated proposal for the…
Sunday Commentary: We Live Under a False Sense of Permanency in Davis
A city that has been unable to develop on the periphery for two decades, starved for tax…
Sunday Commentary: Is Good Planning Even Possible in This Toxic Atmosphere?
For years the issue of land use seemed to disappear from the radar of the city. The…
Analysis: Is On-Campus Housing Low-Hanging Fruit?
For all of the complaining about the confining nature of Davis’ Measure R, which requires the conversion…
Letter: Let’s Keep Our Soul
By Larry D. Guenther The Trackside Partners have announced a new proposal for the re-development of the…
Sunday Commentary: The Davis Dilemma
The Hyatt House hotel is only the most recent example of the difficulty of doing infill in…
Trackside Goes Back to the Drawing Board
On Thursday night, after ten months of discussion over the original Trackside proposal, the developer and neighbors…
Let’s Have Smart Growth with Neighborhood Preservation
By Mark Grote, Robert Canning, Cathy Forkas, Larry Guenther, Kyriacos Kyriacou, Alan Miller, Rhonda Reed and Steve…
Developer Plans Public Meeting to Make Changes to Trackside
The ten months since a group of investors announced plans to redevelop a property along Third Street…
