YIMBY News for 6/3

[Eric Budd]

Where Michael Bennet, Phil Weiser stand on the issues in Colorado’s Democratic primary for governor

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 41.97. affordable, density, development, growth, house, housing, income, multimodal, parking, project, rent, rent control, rent-control, renter, transit-oriented, transportation, urban, zoning

Two Democrats are facing off in Colorado’s Democratic primary for governor on June 30: U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Attorney General Phil Weiser. *Michael Bennet, 61, *was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2009 by then-Gov. Bill Ritter. He was reelected in 2010, 2016 and 2022. He briefly ran for president in 2020. Before his appointment to the Senate, Bennet was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, chief of staff to then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and worked on investments for the billionaire Anschutz family. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Yale Law School. *Phil Weiser, 58,*

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Washington is Creating the Most Expensive Traffic Jam in the World

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 32.09. affordable, development, growth, house, housing, income, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

On April 20, the Federal Highway Administration launched its “Freedom to Drive” initiative, asking governors to nominate their worst traffic bottlenecks for federal capacity expansion. On May 17, House transportation leaders released the draft BUILD America 250 Act — a $580 billion, five-year surface transportation reauthorization, which the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee marked up on May 21. Taken together, the two announcements amount to the largest federal sprawl subsidy in a generation, proposed at exactly the moment American households can least afford it. There is a re

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Denver statehouse candidates debate rent control as primaries approach

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.64. apartment, condo, development, downtown, house, housing, housing stock, rent, rent control, renter, single-family

Two candidates aiming to replace state Sen. Julie Gonzales debated rent stabilization and political experience at a community forum Monday night. Chela Garcia Irlando is a mom and executive director for an environmental nonprofit. Andres Carrera has worked for several Denver politicians, including Mayor Mike Johnston. They both want to represent Colorado Senate District 34, which covers downtown Denver and about 166,000 people. The forum at Hearthstone Cohousing was attended by about 50 people, with a focus on housing policy. The two diverged on one issue: rent stabilization. Carrera said he o

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New political players have upended a fragile peace in Colorado’s oil and gas wars

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.53. development, homeowner, house, housing, income, project, real estate, rent, transportation, urban, zone

[image: Silhouetted oil pump jacks against a sunset sky, with hills in the background.] Colorado’s oil and gas wars broke more than two decades ago as the industry and local communities found themselves at loggerheads over the race to pull fossil fuels from lands stretching from the Utah border to the Kansas state line. Twenty years on it looks like the battle still has legs. The most recent skirmish broke out in March when Conservation Colorado filed four ballot measures aimed at tightening oil and gas operators’ liability for damages and cleanup of contaminated groundwater. The volley was in

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Housing policy tug of war resumes in Congress

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.56. affordable, construction, cost of housing, house, housing, housing crisis, rent, single family, supply

Before the Memorial Day recess, the U.S. House passed a housing reform package — again. “I think this is a meaningful step forward in making it easier to build homes, increasing the inventory and supply of housing and lowering the cost for hardworking families,” said GOP Rep. Jeff Hurd. The bipartisan package has more than four dozen housing bills — from speeding up the process to build new homes and updating rules for manufactured houses to streamlining duplicative federal housing requirements and loosening up restrictions on community banking to increase lending for home construction. There

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Parking Lots Get Hot And Are Bad for Storm Runoff. These Groups Are Testing Other Options.

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.97. construction, development, downtown, parking, parking lot, preservation, project, rent, urban, walk

Ronnie Jefferies paints the parking lot at Science, Arts and Entrepreneurship School to help cool it by making it more reflective, Sept. 4, 2024, in Mableton, Georgia. (File photo by Mike Stewart / AP) At the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission headquarters in Virginia, staff knew their crumbling asphalt parking lot was in desperate need of repair. But instead of replacing the lot with more dark blacktop, the group chose an alternative. The new parking lot, completed last year, includes porous concrete panels and areas with native plants and recycled materials to make the lot cooler and

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