YIMBY News for 4/21

[Eric Budd]

How a Dormant Lot Near a Shoreline Rail Stop Could Become a Community Hub

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 35.58. affordable, apartment, construction, density, development, housing, housing cost, income, mixed-use, parking, parking lot, project, rent, single family, transportation, urban, walk, zone

[image: How a Dormant Lot Near a Shoreline Rail Stop Could Become a Community Hub] Transit riders don't exactly find a smorgasbord of destinations waiting to greet them near either of Shoreline's two light rail stations. But a community-led effort to create a new community hub close to 185th Street station is taking off, with City officials taking the idea and running with it. While the City of Shoreline has been successful in getting new homes to sprout up near its light rail stations at NE 148th Street and NE 185th Street, community amenities have lagged behind, with none of Shoreline's comm

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The Midwest Revival: a Well-Kept Secret

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.70. affordable, growth, house, housing, housing price, income, real estate, rent, urban

Which metro area would you suppose had the highest population growth rate in the past five years — Phoenix or Des Moines? It’s not exactly a trick question: Phoenix comes out ahead. But not by much. The Phoenix metro area gained a little more than 7 percent in that five-year period, but unlikely Des Moines was close behind, at nearly 6.7 percent. That’s not all the provocative news about the Iowa city. Going back a decade, Des Moines has been the fastest growing metro area in the Midwest. Its real GDP increased by more than 30 percent. Employment in those years was up 13.3 percent, first among

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When the Tax Base Walks Out the Door

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.34. development, growth, house, project, rent, walk

When a major employer leaves town, the immediate story is job loss and the shock to the local economy and community identity. The fiscal story is what follows: declining revenues, fixed costs and a multiyear challenge to keep public services funded. In Lexington, Neb., for example, the recent closure of a Tyson Foods plant will eliminate hundreds of jobs. But for local-government finance managers when something like that happens, the more consequential question is not how many jobs are lost — it is how the loss will move through the tax base and how that needs to be managed. Sales taxes will s

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Seattle Stalls Out on Zero Road Death Push. Would an Audit Help?

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.73. bike lane, project, rent, transportation, urban, vision zero, zone

[image: Seattle Stalls Out on Zero Road Death Push. Would an Audit Help?] As Mayor Katie Wilson starts to get a foothold in influencing the sprawling work of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), the city's Vision Zero program is back in the spotlight this month. Newly revised data from 2025 on the impact of traffic violence across the city makes it clear that the goal of scaling serious injuries and fatalities down to zero by the end of this decade has stalled out. Seattle saw a traffic crash that left someone seriously injured or killed roughly every 35 hours last year. More than

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