Davisville
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<p>Davis has interesting people, ideas, connections, and events. On Davisville, host Bill Buchanan presents stories that have some connection to Davis. The program has won 17 Excellence in Journalism awards from the San Francisco Press Club since 2018, including first place in radio/podcast public affairs programs for 2025, plus a national Hometown Media Award for excellence from the Alliance for Community Media in 2024, and first place nationwide in news/public affairs programs among small stations from the Public Media Journalists Association in 2026. Contact: davisville @ dcn.org</p>
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June 30, 2026
Davisville, June 29, 2026: Measure V, unsafely dark streets, a lovely place to live, and other opinions of Davis
<p>Today we talk with two accomplished people at different stages of life about their experiences of Davis: Ken Wagstaff, a former mayor who moved here in the 1960s, and Adithi Sumitran, who just graduated from UC Davis and heads to law school at UC Berkeley this fall.</p> <p>The subjects include Davis, the recent defeat of the Measure V housing measure, and what they think the community needs more of, and less of. Davis has a “big issue of safety, and the feeling of safety in Davis, that maybe we don’t talk about enough,” Adithi says. She cites the sense of menace created by the <a href="https://www.davisenterprise.com/news/second-dominguez-stabbing-trial-gets-underway-monday/article_2cc423e4-b34b-4db0-9c1f-bf27739984b2.html">fatal stabbings</a> (article might be paywalled) during her freshman year, and more recent incidents like the <a href="https://theaggie.org/2026/02/04/multiple-public-indecency-incidents-reported-near-olive-drive-in-early-january">indecent exposures</a> along Olive Drive, where she lived. Davis needs to improve street lighting, improve late-hours transit, and add policing in areas, she says. Ken says Davis’ dark skies ordinance is a point of pride, but supports adjusting it when needed for safety.</p> <p>We also talk about what drew each to Davis (“it’s a lovely place to live,” she says), what Adithi will miss about the community, and Ken’s concluding appreciation for “people like [her], who comes here and sees the benefits and sees the things we’ve created, and we sort of take it for granted. So I hope you come back, Adithi, I hope we’ll have places for you and your friends to enjoy.” She says yes.</p> <p><!--break--><p>(The photo shows the tracks at the Davis train station near sunrise this spring.)</p>
June 16, 2026
Davisville, June 15, 2026: House prices are rising, and it’s a good year for renters in Davis
<p>2026 is a pretty good year for renters in Davis. The city’s vacancy rate has continued to grow, to around 10 percent, says real estate professional Kit Boschken on today’s Davisville. Rents are down from last year. Parts of the market are shifting, she adds— students are less interested in sharing a large house as a place to live, and students coming out of campus housing want leases that start in July or mid-June, instead of the Davis standard of Sept. 1.</p> <p>“Next year we may be lowering rents a little bit again,” she says during today’s program. “I think we’re equaling out and trying to figure out where rents fall in this town, with the university having built a lot, and now [it] has housing for freshmen and sophomores. That really affects the Davis community too.”</p> <p>As for single-family houses, prices are up about 4 percent from last year and the median price has hit about $915,000, says Steve Boschken. “Over a third of our properties in Davis are selling for a million or more, which obviously makes it very challenging for younger families, younger people, to get into a home,” he says. About 40 homes in Davis are below $700,000.</p> <p>Steve and Kit Boschken are real estate brokers with many years of experience in Davis. I invite them onto Davisville about once a year, and today we talk about what they see in the Davis housing market as of summer 2026.</p> <!--break--></p> <p>(The photo shows new houses being built off of East Eighth Street in Davis, June 2026)</p>
June 2, 2026
Davisville, June 1, 2026: In bike town Davis, e-devices have altered traffic safety
<p>Almost anyone listening today is likely to have an opinion about the topic — namely, how well are bicycles, powered scooters, e-bikes, vehicles and pedestrians co-existing in Davis? In terms of safety, courtesy, observing the rules … and what are the current laws for powered scooters and bikes? Probably not what you think, and the Legislature is looking at changing them.</p> <p>Two people have been hit and killed while riding bicycles in or near Davis so far in 2026. We likely all have stories of seeing drivers who only slow for a stop sign, powered motorbikes in the bike lane as they zip past cars, or people walking into the street while focused on their screens. Hopefully, we’ve seen people make room for each other on the streets, too.</p> <p>Today we talk about city statistics, the emergence of e-bikes and e-scooters, the laws so far, what the city is doing, and what individuals can do, with Davis Police Chief Todd Henry, and Ryan Chapman, the city’s director of public works engineering and transportation. </p> <!--break--></p>
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<p>Davis has interesting people, ideas, connections, and events. On Davisville, host Bill Buchanan presents stories that have some connection to Davis. The program has won 17 Excellence in Journalism awards from the San Francisco Press Club since 2018, including first place in radio/podcast public affairs programs for 2025, plus a national Hometown Media Award for excellence from the Alliance for Community Media in 2024, and first place nationwide in news/public affairs programs among small stations from the Public Media Journalists Association in 2026. Contact: davisville @ dcn.org</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates weekly.
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