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City Council tweaks gun-storage ordinance The UC Davis parking structure fills up in 2021. UC Davis increased parking rates this week to keep up with the rising cost of managing parking on campus.
By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Enterprise staff writer
Today, the number of people parking daily on campus is about half the amount it was in the 2018-19 academic year, the last full year before the pandemic. Remote work has helped Transportation Services surpass a goal it set to reduce the number of single-occupancy vehicle trips to campus by 10% before 2027. That goal is part of an objective to help California
Concerns raised by hunters over the city’s new safe-storage gun ordinance resulted in a small change to the law on Tuesday night but left the ordinance largely intact. The safe-storage ordinance requires Davis residents to securely store firearms in their homes as well as in their vehicles, and it is the latter provision that raised concerns among duck hunters who travel through Davis on their way to and from the Yolo Bypass. The ordinance approved last month required that for four-wheel vehicles lacking a trunk, such as sport utility vehicles, firearms must be located in a container that is permanently affixed to the vehicle and underneath a seat, or covered, and outside of plain view from a window. The purpose, says Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel, “is to make it harder for a thief to simply break a window and be able to steal a gun from inside. “Having a gun somehow attached to the vehicle certainly makes it more secure and increases the amount of
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UCD hikes campus parking rates By Caleb Hampton Enterprise staff writer The cost to park a car or motorcycle on campus went up Thursday as UC Davis implemented a parking fee increase it first announced last month. The new daily parking rates range from $2.25 for motorcycle spaces to $3.50 for C lots and $4.60 for A lots, up by 25 cents to a dollar from previous rates. Electric vehicle parking increased from $3.50 to $4.50 for drivers who park in C lots
after charging. The electric vehicle parking includes four hours of charging per day. Visitor parking permits went up from $12 to $15 per day. Parking on campus with a disabled placard remains free. In a message on its website, UC Davis Transportation Services said the price hike was a result of increased costs associated with managing parking on campus. “Parking revenue helps us keep parking areas safe, improve roads and pathways for
pedestrians, and keep traffic flowing throughout the campus,” the message stated. In 2020, UC Davis eliminated long-term paper permits and switched over to using an app called ParkMobile to conduct daily parking payments. That switch, along with remote and hybrid work schedules, contributed to a significant decline in the number of people parking on campus on a daily basis, according to an article published this week by the UC
School board trustees dive into new semester By Aaron Geerts Enterprise staff writer The trustees didn’t hide their excitement about school being back in session during the DJUSD board meeting on Thursday. Alongside the revelry within the meeting were a strategic plan update, an instructional planning update as well as the COVID-19 health and safety update. On top of the to-do list was the strategic plan update. The company, Performance Fact, was contracted to conduct the strategic planning process for the district and is an attempt to align the
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schools and community toward the same goals moving forward. Emphasizing the importance of this alignment was the update presenter and Performance Fact CEO, Mutiu, Fagbayi. “When you think of strategic planning, it’s almost like going to the chiropractor. You don’t have to go to feel okay, but when you do, do that you feel better than before you went,” explained Fagbayi. “So, if we want everyone to be aligned in a common purpose, it’s important to include them in the planning process. We
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Driver in fatal crash seeks new sentence By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer WOODLAND — A man sentenced to 42 years in state prison for his role in a fatal Davis collision could be re-sentenced to a lesser term due to changes in state law. Steven Hendrix was convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, child endangerment and driving under the influence of drugs in connection with the Feb. 24, 2016, collision that killed 71-year-old Cynthia Ann Jonasen, a longtime Davis resident on her way to pick up a prescription that day. Jurors deadlocked 11-1 to acquit Hendrix of the most serious charge,
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Steven Hendrix during his 2017 trial in Yolo Superior Court. second-degree murder, which would have brought a potential life sentence. Witnesses said Hendrix, attempting to get his girlfriend, her sister and their four young children to a
homeless shelter in Davis before it closed its doors for the night, reached speeds over 80 mph as he drove recklessly along Second
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