https://www.yountvillemoon.com/volume-i-2026-1 daily 0.75 2026-06-14 https://www.yountvillemoon.com/volume-i-2026-1/it-was-never-just-a-housing-project monthly 0.5 2026-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/245616fb-9be5-4ebe-9ddf-aa7d30720ace/Screenshot+2026-06-10+074818.png Articles & Essays - It Was Never Just a Housing Project - Make it stand out The Yountville Commons Conceptual Site plan was unanimously approved in March 2025 by both the Town Council and the Zoning and Design Review Board after a year of several public meetings, focus groups and one-on-one interviews with residents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/19c49987-cbb9-4db8-bccf-0469b1daaa93/Screenshot+2026-06-10+080138.png Articles & Essays - It Was Never Just a Housing Project - Make it stand out One of several conceptual sketches showing how existing uses such as the Hopper Creek pathway was incorporated into the Commons site design. Dozens of residents we met with expressed clear desire to not block off the site from this popular pedestrian route. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/7ede96bd-259f-4870-94d3-2cc1b6226121/Screenshot+2026-06-04+073409.png Articles & Essays - It Was Never Just a Housing Project - Make it stand out THIS. One of the most common themes during our community outreach was to make sure the new buildings would match the scale of other buildings in Yountville. This conceptual image of the Yount Street buildings could allow a range of uses over time including housing, civic uses, and simple porches. This is technically called form-based design where the exterior spaces are designed first. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/0512ec86-12e6-4e1a-98b0-295b02eb0919/Screenshot+2026-06-10+081207.png Articles & Essays - It Was Never Just a Housing Project - Make it stand out NOT THIS. Perhaps the strongest message from our initial interviews across a wide range of residents is what they did NOT want for the Yountville Commons. Modern apartment buildings with large expanses of asphalt parking lots in front of them were to be avoided at all costs! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/83d80dcf-2ee0-4fdf-8de1-910e76f69596/Screenshot+2026-06-10+074854.png Articles & Essays - It Was Never Just a Housing Project - Make it stand out One of the tools used in working with residents was not just reactions to sketches and plans but how they responded to images such as these which described small gestures within a larger framework across a range of uses. Housing was just one element of those. https://www.yountvillemoon.com/volume-i-2026-1/the-question-i-cannot-stop-asking monthly 0.5 2026-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/32a683c5-806c-4f52-8a15-ebd48f365f25/Screenshot+2026-05-27+081716.png Articles & Essays - The Question I Cannot Stop Asking - Make it stand out Yountville Commons - Conceptual Sketch of the two-story buildings along Yount St with historic Town Hall on the right and the scale of the fully proposed main village in the distance. Phase 1 only included 40 units. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/b1eaf6e3-f0e0-4dae-8414-e64131865208/the_question_Street.jpg Articles & Essays - The Question I Cannot Stop Asking - Make it stand out Yountville Commons - Concept Sketch of the two story Yount Street buildings that would provide homes for the local workforce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/4b1c1b07-4fd7-456a-a37f-4c48081a12e3/the_question_Site+Plan.jpg Articles & Essays - The Question I Cannot Stop Asking - Make it stand out Yountville Commons - The site plan would have allowed up to 150 units of deed-restricted housing to be built over several years. That zoning would have solved the state-mandated housing requirements for the town for the foreseeable future. The repeal undid that accomplishment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/2a004d6d-d72a-4080-8626-31db756b472b/the_question_Commons.jpg Articles & Essays - The Question I Cannot Stop Asking - Make it stand out Yountville Commons - Concept sketch of an interior plaza with proposed workforce homes on the right with the town hall in the distance. https://www.yountvillemoon.com/volume-i-2026-1/chapter-0-the-town-that-misplaced-its-children monthly 0.5 2026-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/0b82d36a-9747-402b-9394-35c4af34011c/Screenshot+2026-06-06+100430.png Articles & Essays - The Town That Misplaced Its Children - Make it stand out Title panel from the 1857 survey map of Caymus Rancho, confirmed to George C. Yount. Through the influence of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, George C. Yount received the two league Rancho Caymus in 1836, and became the first permanent Anglo-American settler in the Napa Valley. Photographed for research at The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/bca49c28-9aad-4d33-8585-8e61ef2a1fa0/Screenshot+2026-06-06+095348.png Articles & Essays - The Town That Misplaced Its Children - Make it stand out The California Veteran’s home in Yountville opened to its first residents on April 1, 1884. By the end of 1891, the population had grown to 408 men. In 2012, the home had reached it’s budgeted capacity at 1,021 men and their spouses. By 2025, the population of the home had declined to 543 in part due to a lack of affordable housing for workers in the region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/5a413f02-d4c9-4c72-acaa-9f21bbe59471/Screenshot+2026-06-06+102811.png Articles & Essays - The Town That Misplaced Its Children - Make it stand out Before Yountville filled in. This 1940 aerial image shows the former elementary school site outlined in red and Hopper Creek traced in blue. At the time, the land around it was still a working agricultural landscape of orchards, vineyards, farm roads, and scattered buildings. In the decades that followed, much of modern Yountville was built over that landscape, turning fields and orchards into the homes, hotels, restaurants, civic buildings, and businesses residents recognize today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/aba86a9c-e99c-4eb1-a968-f10b8937fdef/Screenshot+2026-06-06+103337.png Articles & Essays - The Town That Misplaced Its Children - Make it stand out The bargain that shaped modern Yountville. This 1968 Napa Register headline marks the defining land-use decision in Napa County history: the creation of the Agricultural Preserve. The preserve helped protect the valley’s open land, vineyards, and rural edge from suburban expansion. It also hardened the boundary between protected agricultural land and the few towns allowed to absorb housing, jobs, hotels, restaurants, and civic life. The Yountville Moon begins from that unresolved bargain: preservation worked, but the housing consequences were deferred. https://www.yountvillemoon.com/volume-i-2026-1/ky7bhku6332p6aginwqxmmo19fjgif monthly 0.5 2026-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/409a8e17-d6db-415e-8595-f39e07e2f5b6/Screenshot+2026-06-06+174255.png Articles & Essays - Where the Workers Were Counted - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/832cfbde-53c2-4061-bb79-edc5fe0248d3/WHERE+WORKERS+WERE+COUNTED+GRAPHIC+-+FINAL.png Articles & Essays - Where the Workers Were Counted - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/f6794489-ee0b-4281-9ec9-6d3ce709834a/GARY+LARSON+GRAPHIC.png Articles & Essays - Where the Workers Were Counted - Make it stand out The studies counted the workers. A small group in the town just keeps pretending the tiny amount of housing proposed for them is exactly the thing that is too large. https://www.yountvillemoon.com/volume-i-2026-1/blog-post-title-two-t5my5-k4xmd-47fwc-7mnbp monthly 0.5 2026-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/6bc64173-12a2-4caf-affa-4cfb071ac67a/FRAGILE+STATE+OF+HOUSING+GRAPHIC.png Articles & Essays - The Fragile State of Yountville’s Workforce Housing - Make it stand out A community steadies what it cannot afford to lose. Housing for the people who keep a town running is both essential and precarious, and protecting it requires collective will in turbulent times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/3e1dbe82-d5d5-4fbc-95d3-1581ff04d0ca/Fragile_State_v7+-+Google+Docs-2.jpg Articles & Essays - The Fragile State of Yountville’s Workforce Housing - Make it stand out The wage-to-rent problem, by income band. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/18a99d96-36fe-4d0e-9534-5ea4760c3598/Fragile_State_v7+-+Google+Docs-5.jpg Articles & Essays - The Fragile State of Yountville’s Workforce Housing - Make it stand out Yountville’s deed-restricted affordable housing inventory, May 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/1c32fc40-5f4a-460c-ad6c-6ec6d6a97984/Fragile_State_v7+-+Google+Docs-6.jpg Articles & Essays - The Fragile State of Yountville’s Workforce Housing - Make it stand out Yountville’s affordable homes by unit size and income tier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/c6c31d79-f07f-46a2-a97a-2555fb1657fa/Fragile_State_v7+-+Google+Docs-7.jpg Articles & Essays - The Fragile State of Yountville’s Workforce Housing - Make it stand out Documented losses, scheduled expirations, and unverified covenant terms. https://www.yountvillemoon.com/volume-i-2026-1/the-story-the-register-missed monthly 0.5 2026-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/f32d6934-9d02-4e87-8227-76e093745a4a/public+property.png Articles & Essays - The Story the Local Press Missed - Make it stand out Illustration created for the Yountville Moon. Everyone in the picture has a private reason. The thing they are breaking belongs to everyone else. https://www.yountvillemoon.com/volume-i-2026-1/the-scarcity-yountville-built monthly 0.5 2026-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/cc118c47-20c8-44a0-9451-5e59f4e4afdd/CLOSED+SCHOOL+RENDERING.png Articles & Essays - The Scarcity Yountville Built - Make it stand out Yountville Elementary School closed in 2020 after more than 125 years of serving local families. https://www.yountvillemoon.com/volume-i-2026-1/Blog Post Title One-3zaa9-zlxng-xbkmm-cftlh monthly 0.5 2026-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/1780518578488-6V5HX6SJG4LJF1J7CE8S/Town+Comparison.jpg Articles & Essays - Preserved in Amber - Make it stand out Eight towns drawn at the same scale. Seven settled agricultural villages of comparable population in France, England, and Italy, shown alongside the urbanized rectangle of Yountville, California. Scale bar two miles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a1f05d36efccc34908273f7/2b854594-c8f0-442e-9c58-86b8df027618/Town+Comparison+Table.jpg Articles & Essays - Preserved in Amber - Make it stand out The Yountville figure reflects the urbanized rectangle north of Highway 29 and excludes the institutional population of the Veterans Home of California. 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