YIMBY News for 9/15

[Eric Budd]

A self-driving car traffic jam is coming for US cities

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.03. bike lane, construction, housing, parking, project, real estate, rent, transportation, urban, walk, zone, zoning

[image: An animated aerial view of autonomous vehicles causing a traffic jam in a city’s intersection] A century ago, a deluge of automobiles swept across the United States, upending city life in its wake. Pedestrian deaths surged. Streetcars, unable to navigate the choking traffic, collapsed. Car owners infuriated residents with their klaxons’ ear-splitting *awooogah**!* Scrambling to accommodate the swarm of motor vehicles, local officials paved over green space, whittled down sidewalks to install parking, and criminalized jaywalking to banish pedestrians from their own streets. Generations

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Traffic fears drive Little Italy’s opposition to proposed Louisville development

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.88. affordable, affordable housing, complete street, development, housing, mixed-use, planning commission, project, rent, transportation, walk

Residents of Louisville’s historic Little Italy neighborhood are demanding changes to plans for a new development in their back yard, as discussions with the developer reignite ahead of a city Planning Commission hearing tentatively slated for early October. That public meeting would mark the second round of commission reviews for the Coal Creek Village development, a proposed mixed-use residential and commercial project on a piece of land east of the railroad tracks and southwest of the South Boulder and Courtesy roads intersection. The Little Italy neighborhood — known for its high concentra

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Sunday Video: Harrell and Wilson Spar in First Post-Primary Mayoral Debate

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.17. downtown, growth, housing, project, rent, renter, urban

Mayor Bruce Harrell is seeking to fend off a strong challenge from Seattle Transit Riders Union head Katie Wilson, and he took a combative tone in the first debate of the general election season. Seattle Channel’s *City Inside Out* aired the debate Friday, with Brian Callahan moderating. Harrell frequently spoke over his opponent, as he sought to portray her as inexperienced and ill-equipped for the office he’s held for the last four years. Challenging Harrell from the left, Wilson won the August primary by nearly 10% — a margin of more than 18,000 votes — stunning those who thought the season

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7 Colorado counties plan to ask voters to double or triple lodging taxes to pay for roads, police

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.48. development, house, housing, hud, rent

[image: The Outsider logo] ------------------------------ As revenue flowing into local governments ebbs, more communities are looking to visitors to pay bills. At least seven counties will ask voters this November to double or triple the local lodging tax outside cities and towns to pay for roads, police, housing and early child care. These are the first counties to deploy a law passed this year — Senate Bill 1247 — that allows voters to raise county lodging taxes to 6%, up from 2%, to pay for infrastructure, conservation, emergency services and sustainable tourism policies. Commissioners in

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