YIMBY News for 6/7

[Eric Budd]

Where the three Republicans running to be Colorado’s next governor stand on the top issues

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 44.16. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, cost of housing, density, growth, homeowner, house, housing, project, rent, renter, supply, transportation, zoning

Three Republicans are facing off in Colorado’s GOP primary for governor on June 30: state Rep. Scott Bottoms, ministry leader Victor Marx and state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer. *Scott Bottoms, 55, *has been a state representative since 2023. The Colorado Springs resident also serves as lead pastor at the Church at Briargate. He is a U.S. Navy veteran. *Victor Marx, 60, *also lives in Colorado Springs. This is the Marine veteran’s first run for public office. He is the founder and CEO of All Things Possible, a nonprofit humanitarian ministry. Marx has also written two books about his life. *Barbara

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Legal Appeal from MLB Stadium Authority Restarts Stadium District Housing Saga

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.63. affordable, affordable housing, comprehensive plan, construction, development, growth, housing, public hearing, rent, urban, zoning

[image: Legal Appeal from MLB Stadium Authority Restarts Stadium District Housing Saga] Just when it looked like the issue of allowing housing construction on a hotly contested swath of industrial land in north SoDo had been put to rest, a new appeal that was quietly filed late last month could reignite it. Just weeks after the Seattle City Council officially repealed a law that would have paved the way for residential uses around SoDo's stadiums, the municipal corporation charged with overseeing T-Mobile Park has joined with the Seattle Building & Construction Trades Council to challenge a pe

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Op-Ed: It's Time to Reform Sound Transit

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.78. affordable, construction, development, house, infill, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

A ballot initiative has been filed aiming to overhaul Sound Transit governance.[image: Op-Ed: It's Time to Reform Sound Transit] Clear majorities of Puget Sound residents voted in 2016 to approve Sound Transit 3 (ST3), a major expansion of our region’s mass transit system. Ten years later, very little progress has been made in getting those projects ready for construction. Last week, the Sound Transit Board of Directors *approved a plan* to further delay some of those projects, some of which might not open until the 2050s or later. The status quo isn’t working. Maintaining it risks our ability

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Crosslake Light Rail Pushes Sound Transit to Most-Used Light Rail System in US

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.09. bus rapid transit, bus route, downtown, growth, infill, project, rent, urban

[image: Crosslake Light Rail Pushes Sound Transit to Most-Used Light Rail System in US] Light rail ridership in the Seattle region has exploded following expansion of the 2 Line across Lake Washington, which connected Bellevue and Seattle for the first time on March 28. In fact, the ridership boost was so pronounced that Sound Transit leapfrogged its peers to become the most ridden light rail system in the United States. "Seattle's light rail & streetcar lines carried 4.8 million riders in April—a 44% increase above March, after Link Line 2 was extended to connect Seattle & Bellevue across Lak

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Colorado Democrats gather to hear straight from their primary candidates

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.13. affordable, comprehensive plan, development, housing, income, rent, renter, supply

Democratic primary voters gathered in Denver at the state party’s DemFest on Saturday. The event attracted about 1,500 voters to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, to hear from candidates. Colorado Democrats are locked in competitive primary races for governor, attorney general, secretary of state and the 8th Congressional District among others. At the top of the ticket, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and state Attorney General Phil Weiser are both running for governor. They are both seasoned politicians with a lot of policy overlap who are running in a close race and trying to distinguis

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What’s Working: Colorado teens take different path to summer jobs — networking, entrepreneurship and asking a CEO

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.03. development, house, hud, income, project, rent, walk

------------------------------ *Tamara Chuang* *Business/Technology Reporter* ------------------------------ *Quick links*: Colorado Summer Job Hunt stats so far | GlobalMindED job fair | Employers rehiring post AI layoffs? | SBA funds small business centers | Take the reader poll on AI jobs Nick Wetterling put his regular summer lawn-mowing service on hold for an opportunity of a lifetime — or at least a teenager’s lifetime. He landed an AI engineering internship at Iterate.ai, a Denver developer of private artificial intelligence software. It’s not that Iterate was hiring for the summer, or

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