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FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 2022
UC regents reassert authority on athletics UCLA’s Big Ten move under cloud
An alley view of the proposed housing development for Chiles Ranch. The city of Davis must prove to the state via its Housing Element that sufficient land is zoned for housing.
By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer
Of the 2,075 units the city must provide, 580 must be very low income units; 350 low income units; 340 moderate income units; and 805 above moderate income units.
The University of California Board of Regents asserted its authority to make decisions regarding campus athletics programs Wednesday at a meeting convened to discuss UCLA’s move from the Pac-12 conference to the Big Ten. In 1991, a UC policy delegated authority over most intercollegiate athletic decisions to campus chancellors. That policy was widely thought to give UCLA the freedom to switch conferences. On Wednesday, however, the university argued the policy was meant to enable chancellors to manage their campus’ NCAA programs, but it never revoked the regents’ ultimate decision-making authority. “It’s important to understand that when the regents delegated authority to the president, they didn’t give it away or lose it,” UC system attorney Charlie Robinson said during the
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State signals good news on city’s Housing Element By Anne Ternus-Bellamy
the city’s consultants have received an informal blessing on the city’s revised Housing Element from the state Department of Housing and Community Development.
Enterprise staff writer Nearly a year after the City Council approved a 2021-2029 Housing Element for Davis, and nine months after the state declined to certify that element absent some changes, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. In an update to the Planning Commission last week, Sherri Metzker, the city’s interim director of community development and sustainability, said
The revised document must still go through public review, including scrutiny from the Planning Commission and City Council, and be resubmitted to the state for certification, “but it’s the most positive information we’ve gotten on the Housing Element in quite a while,”
Metzker said. “So I’m pretty happy about that. I know it has taken a long time.” Under state law, local jurisdictions must provide a certain amount of housing serving all segments of their populations and the Housing Element lays out the plan for doing so. The city of Davis, which is required to provide 2,075 additional dwelling units over the next seven years under the Regional Housing Needs Allocation, must demonstrate to the
state via the Housing Element that sufficient land is zoned to provide that housing and, where there is not enough land, to identify an inventory of potential sites suitable and available for re-zoning.
Local West Nile virus activity increases Purves & Associates B A T -B celebrates 50 years y
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West Nile virus activity is increasing in Davis and elsewhere in Yolo County, the local vector control district reported this week. Laboratory surveillance results obtained Wednesday revealed 12 mosquito samples and two dead birds tested positive for the virus. “Over the last couple of weeks, virus activity has been steadily increasing especially in the cities of Woodland, Davis and surrounding areas where most of the activity is currently concentrated,” according to the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito & Vector Control District. Areas within Sacramento
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By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer
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Multiple mosquito samples and dead birds have tested positive for West Nile virus in Davis this summer. The blue pins indicate birds were found (randomized within a 500-foot radius) and the green pins mark positive mosquito sample. County have also registered activity and are also being closely monitored. So far in 2022, the district has found six dead
WEATHER Saturday: Sunny and very hot. High 105. Low 64.
birds and 37 mosquito samples positive for West Nile virus in Yolo County.
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For the past 50 years, Purves & Associates Insurance Agency has served the Davis and Sacramento areas. Come hell or high water — or a global pandemic — this business remains steadfast on a foundation of honesty that’s proven to be a key to success as it celebrates its golden anniversary. It all started back in 1972 when George Purves started working at Brinley’s Real Estate and Insurance here in Davis. The owner, John Brinley,
took Purves under his wing and was something of a business mentor over the years. Eventually, Brinley sold the insurance portion of his business to George — while lending him some money to do so — and Brinley’s business protégé never looked back. After a series of associations over the years, George and his son Scott branched off to re-established Purves & Associates Insurance Agency of Davis in their hometown in 2001. George passed away in 2019, but his
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