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Over at UC Davis, love is in the air on campus. Collected annually by the UC Davis’ social media team, students, staff, alumni and friends are responding to #AggiesInLove with their “love origin story.
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The developer who will build 150 affordable apartments for seniors in the Bretton Woods senior housing community expects to break ground in summer 2024 at the earliest with occupancy coming in 2025. Stephan Daues, consulting director for Mercy Housing, the nonprofit affordable-housing developer tasked with building those units, told members of the city’s Senior Citizen Commission on Thursday that once the city has approved design review, pursuing financing — a time-consuming process for projects like these — will begin. “What we are leaning toward at this point is to finance the development in two phases, 75 units each,” Daues said. “Phase one would be the eastern-most building — 75 units and the community building — and the second phase, we’ll be pursuing that financing at the same time, so it would likely lag behind by six months to a year if all goes well. “We will most likely need the rest of this calendar year to assemble all of the various funding pieces that are required and we would likely break
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UCD mapping Aggies’ hearts By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
who has become their special someone, Aggies in Love.
In honor of the holiday for lovers, it seemed apropos to highlight some UC Davis love stories. Collected annually by the UC Davis’ social media team, love stories from students, staff, alumni, and friends are coming in in response to the hashtag #AggiesInLove with their “love origin story, and where it all began.” Showcasing where lovers first fell in love, their favorite area of study, or perhaps where they first met the person
Over the last few years, hundreds of Aggies have shared their stories for the social media team to put in their “Aggies in Love” map. The call for submissions for this year began on Jan. 17 and will stay open through Feb. 24. With the help of a partner in the Cal Aggie Alumni Association and the UC Davis Esri support team, a new and improved map will be unveiled on Valentine’s Day across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter so folks
can interact with the map, filter stories by type, etc. “Aggies in Love” so far has received 120 submissions this year. A few comments from the Aggies in Love team regarding the process are as follows: n “I feel like people took us on their journeys, and it was very heartwarming.” n “I’ve loved learning about all the little places on campus where people have found their passions, friends, and loves. AIL takes a place as simple as the CoHo and turns it into a movie scene.”
Some of the surprises along the way for the team were the handful of stories where the couples stated that their kids also went to UC Davis. “Even though we know Aggie Legacy families happen, it’s always a joyful surprise to read! We even had a story where Gunrock (the mascot) made an appearance at the wedding,” explained UCD Interim Director of Social Media Karla W. Fung.
Rising rates lock out homebuyers By Alejandro Lazo
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Arson trial ends in hung jury By Lauren Keene
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Back in 2021, when mortgage interest rates were plumbing all timelows, Caitlyn O’Connell and her fiancé nearly closed on a home in San Luis Obispo. They backed out of the deal after discovering major issues with mold, she said. Over the course of the next year, the cost of a typical mortgage payment in California increased by as much as 56% in some markets, according to housing data firm Zillow. O’Connell feared she and her now-husband were locked out of homeownership forever. This year they abandoned their search.
WOODLAND — A Yolo Superior Court judge declared a mistrial in an arson case after jurors failed to agree whether the defendant intentionally set three rural wildfires. Meanwhile, a second trial begins Tuesday for Ronald Christopher Stevens, who also faces unrelated battery and vandalism charges. Stevens, 64, was tried on three felony arson charges in connection with the June 2021 fires, which prosecutors alleged he set on rural Guinda properties after he argued with his neighbors and
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Caitlyn O’Connell, in her apartment in Venice on Feb. 7, started looking for a home in 2021 but gave up shortly after because prices were too high. “If we stay in California, we will have to be renters,” said O’Connell, who lives in Los Angeles’ Venice Beach neighborhood. “I don’t
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know, it really just feels like we’re stuck.” Tens of thousands of
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got evicted from the outbuilding he rented on County Road 41A. The first blaze scorched 34 acres and destroyed several structures, while two other fires set three days later caused wildland damage but no structural losses. Authorities arrested Stevens in the area of the latter incidents, reportedly finding him in possession of a butane lighter. “These fires were not acts of God,” Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Gustavo Figueroa told jurors in his closing argument. “The lighting of these fires was willful and malicious, to get back at
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