YIMBY News for 3/8

[Eric Budd]

Advocates Gather at UW, Pushing for Safer, More Accessible Streets

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.45. bus stop, complete street, housing, preservation, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk, zone, zoning

King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci originally became a bicyclist commuter for health and well-being. Within a year of moving to Bellevue from New York City, she’d already gotten a car, having given up on the public transit system. But she swiftly learned that even a bicycle wouldn’t cut it on Washington’s roadways. “That will teach you a lot about how our system works and doesn’t work,” she told attendees at the University of Washington’s (UW) OpenThePaths2026 conference on February 27. Held by the UW Taskar Center for Accessible Technology, the conference was meant to highlight the st

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Who is watching the babies in Leadville? 10 counties in Colorado have no licensed child care for infants.

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.39. affordable, condo, construction, cost of housing, development, house, housing, income, rent, renter, supply, walk

[image: A young child with long blond hair smiles and holds a blue toy unicorn with a gold horn and blue mane close to their face.] Children play at the Bright Start Learning Center in Leadville. (Claudia A. Garcia, Special to The Colorado Sun) *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. *

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The Boulder Chamber View: Breaking through, building anew

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.84. affordable, comprehensive plan, development, growth, house, housing, housing cost, mixed-use, rent, supply, zone

Full disclosure, this is my first public column as a representative for the Boulder Chamber. As the associate vice president of economic vitality for the Boulder Chamber, most of my work happens behind the scenes, working alongside partners like the city of Boulder, school districts, business and industry leaders, and other groups focused on our local economy. At heart, I’m also a fan of television, film and books that explore real emotion, and the complexities of the human condition — stories that remind us that growth rarely comes without tension, and progress is often born from perseverance

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Boulder City Council talks affordable housing funding

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.88. affordable, affordable housing, construction, homeowner, house, housing, income, market-rate, project, zoning

Believe it or not, it’s expensive to buy a home in Boulder. The Boulder City Council was presented with recent data attesting to that during its Thursday meeting. It also raises questions about the effectiveness of the city’s cash-in-lieu option, which allows for developers to either build a certain amount of affordable housing units in a project or contribute money to the city’s affordable housing fund. Data presented to the council show the city is averaging 37 units affordable to low-, moderate- and middle-income earners in the city for every 100 units built. Data presented to the council s

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