YIMBY News for 3/9

[Eric Budd]

Lawmakers Weigh the Promises and Pitfalls of a Data Center Boom

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.77. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, growth, house, housing, project, public hearing, real estate, rent, supply, zone, zoning

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Q1 2026 Magazine. You can subscribe here. Randy Knaack grew up on a farm in Menomonie, Wis., about an hour east of the Twin Cities. He runs a small advertising business printing signs and T-shirts there, and has served as Menomonie’s mayor for the last 16 years. Last summer, a landowner from a neighboring town asked the Menomonie City Council to annex a 320-acre piece of farmland, about a mile down the road from the farm where Knaack grew up, and zone it for industrial use. Residents soon caught wind that a mysterious company called Balloonist

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Child care providers fight headwinds on Colorado’s rural Eastern Plains, with staff in short supply

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.69. affordable, development, house, housing, income, project, rent, supply, transportation

*A Colorado Sun series* [image: Silhouette of a child sitting next to text reading "Out of reach" and "Colorado’s crumbling child care system."] This series aims to unpack why child care costs have become so high for both families and providers and will also explore what it will take to make child care affordable and widely available across the state. *Read more* *KIT CARSON* While Kayla Buchanan sits at her desk at the Country Living Learning Center, her husband, Cheyenne County Sheriff Michael Buchanan, slips in the front door a little before noon and heads down a hallway to a small kitchen.

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