YIMBY News for 11/17

[Eric Budd]

Op-Ed: Making Seattle Neighborhoods More Accessible by Design

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 59.28. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, condo, density, development, higher-density, homeowner, house, housing, housing crisis, income, parking, parking garage, project, rent, single-family, supply, urban, walk, zone, zoning

Four case studies on how new zoning incentives align with demographic shifts to meet housing demand. Now that the dust has settled, we can game out how the One Seattle Plan’s nearly final development standards will open up new opportunities for affordable and accessible neighborhood housing. The flurry of late amendments created incentives for higher-density stacked flats, additional floor area, more accessible units, taller buildings, and parking reductions that could fundamentally evolve the neighborhood’s next generation of housing. The recent history of Seattle’s housing market has been sp

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In Weld County, a mobile health unit hits the road to bring health care to the people

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.52. apartment, housing, income, parking, parking lot, project, rent, walk

In its white paint with vegetable drawings and blue stripes, Weld County’s mobile health unit arrives at the Guadalupe Apartments in Greeley. It is early November at the permanent low-income housing building, and the parking lot is fairly empty. A soft breeze moves the fallen leaves around the mobile health unit, and the painted pumpkins at the apartment’s entrance seem like they are about to fly away. Three nurses and two community health workers come out of the unit. They get tables and pamphlets out of storage and start inviting people to get vaccinated, do some STI testing and get screened

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A California City’s Groundbreaking Path to Water Self-Sufficiency

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.19. construction, development, house, parking, parking lot, project, supply, urban

In Brief: Santa Monica’s water responsibilities encompass both drinking water supply and ocean stewardship. An underground facility constructed near other government buildings serves both of these needs. It is treating wastewater, stormwater and urban runoff to drinking water standards and using it to replenish local groundwater, essential to the city's goal of achieving water self-sufficiency. On Main Street in Santa Monica, Calif., a parking lot sits between the courthouse and a boarded-up convention center. Visitors looking for a parking spot or charging their electric vehicles would never

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