[OldNorth] A History of Old North Davis Land Use & Zoning

[John Lofland]

Residents and Friends of Old North Davis,

I have written a history of land use designations and zoning in Old 
North Davis that I thought you might find of interest.

You might it interesting, in particular, in relation to likely future 
discussions of Old North zoning changes and establishing a historical 
district.

Below, I paste the text formally announcing its publication and how 
you can read or download it for free on the Old North Davis History 
web site.

Thanks.

John Lofland

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Davis City Planning 1925-2005, by John Lofland

In Davis City Planning 1925-2005, John Lofland tells the stories of 
four Davis, California planning mindsets:

(1) human-scale and slow-growth ideas dominant over the 1920-40s;
(2) mega-scale and explosive growth images of the 1950s-60s;
(3) human-scale and controlled growth conceptions prominent in the 
progressive 1970s-80s; and,
(4) contested-scale and herky-jerky growth notions of the 1990s and 
early 2000s.

His histories of wrenching and acrimonious lurchings from mindset to 
mindset feature some two dozen land use and zoning maps from the 
first "Use Districts" plan of 1925 to the "Zoning Districts" map of 
2004. In addition, there is the novel feature of a color photograph 
of every major Davis planning publication and volume from 1925 to 
2005.

The area now called "Old North Davis" is focused on as a case study 
of the protracted struggle among these four mindsets. Surveying land 
use designations for and zoning schemes of that area since 1925, 
Lofland concludes that at least 19 different such designations or 
schemes have been applied to it. This "herky-jerkynesss" represents a 
long-standing and still continuing struggle over what is to happen 
there--as well as in the rest of Davis.

Davis City Planning 1925-2005 is published on the Old North Davis 
History web site at 
http://www.oldnorthdavishistory.org/1-3-the-grisly-history-planning-zoning-in-the-on, 
folder 1.2 and is free to the public. It is 54 pages long and can be 
read on the web and/or downloaded in portable document format (pdf).

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