YIMBY News for 9/10

[Eric Budd]

Urbanists Push to Amend Seattle Growth Plan Ahead of Final Vote

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 48.80. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, comprehensive plan, density, development, downtown, growth, height limit, house, housing, mixed-use, parking, public hearing, rent, renter, single family, urban, walk, zone, zoning

Council’s 106 amendments include gems and clunkers. Seattle’s long saga of passing its state-required, once-per-decade major update to its Comprehensive Plan is nearing its end. But first, one more public hearing will be held this Friday for residents to air their grievances or do their cheerleading. The Seattle City Council has put forward a total of 106 amendments. As past *Urbanist *coverage noted, these amendments run the gambit from pro-housing and helpful to obstructionist and clunky. For those that just want to cut to the case, here is a cheat seat for amendments to support and to oppos

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Denver Tech Center building leading the pack of empty offices becoming apartments

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 32.59. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, downtown, housing, parking, parking lot, project, real estate, rent, zoning

The property in the 4000 block of South Monaco Street at the Denver Tech Center looks like a typical office building at the sprawling business complex 30 minutes south of downtown — four stories high with walls of windows and hemmed in by parking lots. But that’s just the outside. Inside, construction crews are in the process of transforming the 120,000 square-foot office building into 143 affordable apartments. Developer Shea Properties has torn everything inside the building down to the studs. “There used to be walls everywhere, so there would be conference rooms, people’s offices, and we de

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King County Council Unsnags RapidRide I Line After Property Disputes

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.73. bus rapid transit, bus stop, construction, downtown, project, real estate, rent, transportation, urban

A county council committee this week voted to authorize a set of property condemnations intended to ensure that King County Metro’s next RapidRide project, the I Line between Renton and Auburn, remains on schedule. The $174 million project is set to start construction this fall, but Metro has not yet secured the rights to build bus stop upgrades and transit improvements on a few dozen properties up and down the corridor. Monday’s unanimous vote in the transportation, economy, and environment committee represented a scaled-back version of the initial broader condemnation proposal. After initial

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Altadena Homeowners Are Uniting To Bring Back Their Historic Cottages After L.A. Wildfires

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.13. affordable, homeowner, house, project, rent, urban, walk

Eva Story plays with her dog in front of her century-old Janes Village cottage, which survived the Eaton Fire. Neighbors estimate that dozens of similar historic cottages burned down and they're working together to rebuild their unique community. (Photo by William Jenkins / AfroLA) *This story was co-published with AfroLA, nonprofit solutions journalism for Los Angeles told through the lens of the Black community. To republish this article, please contact AfroLA. Subscribe to AfroLA’s newsletter.* Joanne McLaughlin adored her storybook cottage in Altadena. The old home was full of character, w

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How a little help desk inside a Denver rec center is preventing homelessness

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.98. apartment, house, housing, income, project, rent, transportation, walk

The woman was filled with fury when she walked in the Westwood Recreation Center looking for help. For days, she had wandered the streets of the southwest Denver neighborhood, unsure where to sleep or how to get food. She had recently lost her restaurant job, and then her apartment because she couldn’t pay the rent. Her anger faded and tears began to flow down her face after Mindy Sandoval, a resource specialist strategically placed near the rec center’s front doors, asked the middle-aged woman how she could help. “That’s got to be so scary to be older like that … and she’s also not experience

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Burnham Yard Broncos stadium reaction: Elected officials applaud largely private funding plan

Denver Post Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.19. construction, development, growth, house, project, urban, zoning

Elected officials representing Denver celebrated the Broncos’ announcement Tuesday of a preferred stadium site in the city, emphasizing the team owners’ promise that taxes won’t be raised to build in Burnham Yard. While the team has committed to a funding framework that doesn’t include new tax dollars, the project may still receive some public investment by tapping into existing property or sales taxes. That’s because the city is considering a type of subsidy called tax-increment financing to aid the former rail yard’s redevelopment. “I think it’s going to have to be a consideration. That land

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