YIMBY News for 9/7

[Eric Budd]

The Seattle Waterfront Park Amenities That Never Crossed the Finish Line

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 39.63. bike lane, bike path, development, downtown, house, housing, parking, project, public space, rent, transportation, urban, walk

Today the City of Seattle is celebrating the grand opening of the newly remade central waterfront, cutting the ribbon on more than a decade of work to transform one of the city’s most visible public spaces. For a corridor that used to be home to an elevated highway separating the waterfront from the rest of the city, the changes undeniably represent a major upgrade from the Alaskan Way of old. But with pedestrian amenities and bike facilities attached to a widened roadway, which expands to nine lanes (including parking) near Colman Dock to accommodate ferry queuing lanes, many Seattle urbanist

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What’s Working: Aging in Colorado is expensive. Here’s what’s being done about it

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 33.14. affordable, cost of housing, development, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, income, project, rent, transportation, zone

------------------------------ *Tamara Chuang* *Business/Technology Reporter* ------------------------------ Wages in Colorado are higher than neighboring states, but so is the cost of living and, likewise, the cost of aging. That’s a critical issue that the Denver-based Next50 Foundation is so keen on addressing that it’s setting up a separate group to lobby for policies that support aging in the state. “We’re seeding a nonprofit advocacy organization that’s going to be focused on affordable aging,” said Sydney Byer, senior manager for advocacy and external affairs at Next50, which funds effo

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