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Yountville is Not for Sale, Vol 3: Bezos Bought the Post. Ellison Bought CBS. Yountville Got Gary.
An Orange County billionaire helped overturn the zoning for workforce housing he was never asked to pay for. Then the town's only newspaper went broke…
Jul 26
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Brendan Kelly
What the Chamber Is For
What happened at the July 21 Council meeting, and what political speech actually is
Jul 24
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Brendan Kelly
Yountville Is Not for Sale
Voters bought the land for workforce housing. 235 signatures stopped it. Now the question is who controls what the public already paid for.
Jul 23
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Brendan Kelly
June 2026
Why Didn’t the Town Just Hire a Developer?
Before the Town could bring in private building expertise, it had to answer a more basic question: why would it surrender control of a public asset…
Jun 15
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Brendan Kelly
The Shape of Belonging
Why the Commons was designed as a public place, not just a housing project.
Jun 14
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Brendan Kelly
The Price of Planning Ahead
Why Yountville had to understand the cost of the whole Commons before deciding what part it could actually build.
Jun 14
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Brendan Kelly
It Was Never Just a Housing Project
How Yountville Commons began as an act of civic repair before it became a political argument
Jun 10
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Brendan Kelly
The Question I Cannot Stop Asking
Yountville has long made room for some of the people who keep the town running. The harder question is whether it is willing to make room for a few…
Jun 9
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Brendan Kelly
The Town That Misplaced Its Children
How a town preserved its beauty, lost its young families, and turned a closed school into the clearest evidence of its housing crisis.
Jun 8
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Brendan Kelly
Where the Workers Were Counted
A claim is circulating that the Town never studied what its workers needed. Here is every study that says otherwise, and a challenge: check it yourself.
Jun 7
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Brendan Kelly
The Fragile State of Yountville’s Workforce Housing
Eighty-two percent of the people who work in Yountville do not live in Yountville. The Town’s own Housing Element documents the figure. It has not…
Jun 6
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Brendan Kelly
The Story the Napa Register Missed
The problem with the recent Napa Register story on Yountville Commons is not that it got the meeting wrong. The Council did vote to begin repealing the…
Jun 6
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Brendan Kelly
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