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BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Is the Davis Innovation and Sustainability Campus “a place to advance discoveries that will improve lives around the globe while providing sustainable local jobs, affordable housing, economic stimulus and millions of dollars for the city?” Or is it “a massive, car-centric, sprawling business park that will forever change Davis for the worse?” Depends who you ask. But on Nov. 3, it will be Davis residents who decide the fate of what will be on the ballot as Measure B: a proposal that would bring 2.64 million square feet of business and innovation space as well as up to 850 residential units to the northeast corner of Mace Boulevard and Interstate 80. According to Davis City Attorney Inder Khalsa’s analysis, elements of Measure B that could not be significantly modified later without another vote include a maximum of 850 residential units, with at least 153 units designated as affordable, as well as other site uses that include office, laboratory, research and development, manufacturing, ancillary retail, hotel and conference center and parks, plazas and green spaces. Housing construction may not begin until 200,000 square feet of commercial development is constructed and then may proceed at a rate of one unit per 2,000 square feet of commercial space (though construction of affordable units may begin earlier). The development also would include about 49 acres of open space, greenbelts, courtyards and parks,
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County reports 139 COVID cases in two days as state starts to clear backlog BY ANNE TERNUS-BELLAMY Enterprise staff writer Yolo County has seen a spike in newly reported coronavirus cases as a backlog caused by issues with the state’s electronic data reporting system begins to clear. The county reported 75 new cases on Monday and 64 on Tuesday with high numbers expected to continue over the next couple of days. For quite a few weeks, the county had been averaging 30 to 35 new cases a day, but that dropped down to as little as 10 new cases at one point last week. Problems with the state’s electronic data reporting system have cast doubts on the reliability of recent numbers. The California Department of Public Health blamed technology issues with the state’s disease registry
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Participants in Sunday’s ‘March: For our Mothers, For our Daughters, For our Sisters,’ a rally organized by Women in Leadership, Davis (WiLD), make their way through the South Davis greenbelt and over the Dave Pelz Bike Overcrossing. The group met at Playfields Park before marching to John Barovetto Park in East Davis. “During the organization of the For Our Fathers, For Our Sons, For Our Brothers march, WiLD said in a news release, “we recognized the power of the women in the committee and also the lack of women leaders in Davis who focus on supporting other women in leadership, especially Black women and women of color.”
Davis alumni headed to virtual Democratic convention BY CALEB HAMPTON
U.S. citizens living outside the country.
Enterprise staff writer When the Democratic National Convention meets next week, from Aug. 17-20, delegates from 57 U.S. states, territories and voting blocs will vote to elect the party’s presidential candidate to challenge Donald Trump in November. At least two of those delegates, Onélica Andrade and Diego Rivas, have connections to Davis. Andrade and Rivas were both selected as delegates for Democrats Abroad, the branch of the Democratic Party that represents the more than 6.5 million
positions after years of political engagement while living abroad. They both said Trump’s election in 2016 further motivated them to participate in the democratic process. “What engaged me was having Trump in the presidency and seeing the country at risk,” Andrade said.
While Americans living abroad vote in their state of previous resiANDRADE dence in the Belgium general election, the Democratic Primary categorizes overseas citizens as its own voting group, which will send 13 pledged delegates — including Andrade and Rivas — to the 2020 convention.
Andrade, a 2011 UC Davis graduate with a degree in international relations, is a pledged delegate for Joe Biden, who is expected to officially accept the party’s nomination at next week’s convention. Andrade has lived in Brussels since 2016, where she works on issues related to climate change
Andrade and Rivas both decided to run for delegate
for the European Commission. Having moved abroad the same year Trump was elected, Andrade said RIVAS she felt “worGermany ried about not being able to do much” and began looking for ways to work towards political change while living abroad. “I desperately started looking for ways to get involved and do something — even miles away from home,” Andrade said. In
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Cal Fire says target shooting caused June’s Quail Fire McNaughton Newspapers VACAVILLE — A wildfire that burned 2.87 square miles of brush, forced evacuations and destroyed a home in rural Vacaville was started by target shooting in the area. That’s the finding of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s investigation into the Quail Fire, which started June 6 and burned for four days before being contained. Cal Fire released its findings Monday. The Quail Fire forced area residents out of their homes and destroyed three structures — including one home. The vegetation fire started at 3:30 p.m. June 6 along Quail Canyon Road near Pleasants Valley Road, north of Vacaville and southwest of Winters. Evacuations occurred along Quail Canyon Road from Pleasants Valley Road to Highway
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A fire crew walks along a ridge that was partially burned in the Quail Fire near Pleasants Valley Road on June 8. 128 along the Solano CountyNapa County line, but were lifted the next day. The residents of the one home that was lost were still packing up when the fire reached their back porch. A
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commercial building, which may have been used as a residence, also was lost. A number of area roads were closed during the early stages of the fire, which Cal Fire reports at its peak involved 600 personnel
— including eight hand crews — 30 engines, nine bulldozers, air drops and later, five water tenders. The hot, windy conditions
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