Yolo County Local News: Land Use & Development

09/28/2023
Three have joined the Davis Planning Commission: Alan Bennett, director of the public intellectual property resource for agriculture at UC Davis; Vince McLaughlin, a longtime attorney who also has a broker's license; and Johannes Troost, formerly on the city’s Utilities Commission and the Finance and Budget Commission.

09/25/2023
The first shoe has now fallen in Davis—now the question will be what will come of it.

09/21/2023
Work on a new annex, visitors center and underground parking garage can legally begin after the state issued a final, court-ordered review of the project. Plans have been on hold since early 2021.

09/20/2023
Lost in the madness of yet another bomb threat was an important discussion that took place at the city council meeting Sept. 19 when Councilmember Bapu Vaitla pulled the consent item on the Village Farms EIR.

09/19/2023
Councilmember Bapu Vaitla pulled the consent item on the EIR contract for Village Farms to discuss additional evaluations of a more dense alternative. Councilmember Vaitla noted that there are seven alternative project alternative scenarios that are considered eventually in the scope of services.

09/17/2023
Locals for Affordable Housing aims to place a voter initiative on the November 2024 ballot modeled after Berkeley’s vacancy tax, which requires owners of homes that sit vacant more than six months to pay $3,000 for the first year and $6,000 every year after.

09/15/2023
“The draft Code will be available for review and comment through October 27, and the City encourages interested Woodlanders to participate in a series of public workshops and information sessions,” a city press release stated.

09/13/2023
The irrigation bill, which aims to force businesses and institutions to remove their lawns, now goes to the governor.

09/05/2023
A June budget deal required community colleges to raise their own money to build affordable student housing. Some campuses said that plan prevented them from building the dorms, even with help from the state to pay the debt.

08/29/2023
Assemblymember Buffy Wicks proposed legislation to help get around a court's rejection of a UC Berkeley housing plan. But even if the law is approved, its fate is in the hands of the state Supreme Court.

08/13/2023
Some 7,000 square miles of ocean on California’s Central Coast could soon become the largest national marine sanctuary in the continental U.S. It could also make history as one of the first federal sanctuaries to be spearheaded by a Native American tribe.

08/13/2023
On Aug. 17, the Woodland Planning Commission will consider a recommendation to the City Council on the proposed adoption of the Woodland Research and Technology Park Specific Plan.

08/05/2023
Woodland moved toward the development of its Woodland Research and Technology Park by releasing key documents that both the Planning Commission and City Council are expected to review in the coming weeks.

08/04/2023
According to new data provided by the California Department of Finance, the Central Valley’s population is projected to grow by about 5 million people by 2060. Affordability is one of the main drivers that’s expected to continue shifting people inland.

06/16/2023
The California Public Utilities Commission approved a second area code (called an overlay) that will provide additional numbering resources while minimizing customer inconvenience in the geographic region served by the 530 area code.

05/31/2023
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 341 into law, reinstating a moratorium on the expansion of cardrooms in the state.

08/30/2022
A Sacramento Area Council of Governments pilot program called Green Means Go identifies areas called “Green Zones” in the six-county Sacramento region and then makes efforts to increase infill housing where services already exist while also improving access to alternative modes of transportation.

05/16/2022
The Bureau of Land Management is seeking nominations for positions on its California Desert District Advisory Council, Central California Resource Advisory Council, and Northern California District RAC.

04/19/2022
After five years of planning, construction is finally beginning at Aggie Square, a $1.1 billion development near UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento—a partnership among the university, the City of Sacramento and the real estate company Wexford Science & Technology.

02/23/2022
UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and other community leaders attended the Aggie Square groundbreaking on Feb. 16. The project is expected to bring in $5 billion annually to the region and add close to 25,000 jobs.