YIMBY News for 12/18

[Eric Budd]

Seattle OKs New Growth Plan, but Biggest Zoning Battles Lie Ahead

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 54.09. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, comp plan, comprehensive plan, density, development, growth, higher-density, homeowner, house, housing, parking, planning commission, project, rent, single family, transportation, urban, vision zero, walk, zone, zoning

Nearly a full year beyond a state-mandated deadline, the Seattle City Council adopted a new long-term growth plan on Tuesday, laying out policies intended to guide and accommodate housing and job growth through 2044. Aside from tweaks made by the council, the new Comprehensive Plan represents outgoing Mayor Bruce Harrell’s vision for Seattle’s future — a small step beyond the “urban village” strategy that has been in place since the 1990s. Harrell’s framework has faced significant criticism for not going far enough to accommodate future housing growth in Washington’s most populous city, includ

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How Kaua‘i Residents Help Shape Their Communities’ Large Affordable Housing Developments

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 43.61. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, house, housing, income, parking, planning commission, project, rent, single-family, urban, walk

[image: Backyard] Residents attend a community meeting for the Waimea 400 Affordable Housing Project. The Kaua‘i Housing Agency emphasizes early, extensive community engagement largely because it works on master-planned community developments, which is different from other Hawai’i counties. (Photo courtesy Olivia Franco) *This story was co-published with Overstory, an online newsroom covering the systems and solutions behind Hawai‘i’s most pressing issues.* Gary Pacheco has lived in Kīlauea, Hawai‘i’, his entire life and has seen it grow from its sugar plantation roots to a now blossoming mix

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Katie Wilson Taps Angela Brady as Interim SDOT Director

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.13. bike lane, construction, development, downtown, housing, hud, multimodal, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson has selected Angela Brady, who currently heads the city’s Office of the Waterfront, Civic Projects and Sound Transit, to be Interim Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), her transition team announced Wednesday. Brady will replace Adiam Emery, who had been outgoing Mayor Bruce Harrell’s Deputy Mayor before being tapped to lead the department on an interim basis earlier this year. The incoming administration will consider candidates to fill the permanent job at a later date, sources inside the Wilson transition team confirmed to *The Urbani

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Democrats, local governments are gearing up for another round of battles over housing in Colorado

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 39.97. affordable, affordable housing, construction, density, development, homeowner, house, housing, housing stock, land-use, occupancy, parking, planning commission, single-family, transportation, zone, zoning

This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at kunc.com . Colorado Democrats plan to introduce a pair of bills during the upcoming legislative session that aim to boost the state’s housing stock by making it easier for homeowners to subdivide and sell off their land and giving organizations with large properties the ability to usurp local zoning laws and build homes. The forthcoming measures are setting up another round of battles between lawmakers and local governments, who complain that the legislature is eroding their ability to design their comm

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