YIMBY News for 12/13

[Eric Budd]

The Weekly Wrap: Trump’s Policies Have Downgraded U.S. Civic Health

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 42.53. affordable, affordable housing, development, housing, housing crisis, mobility, parking, parking garage, project, rent, transportation, urban, vision zero, walk

[image: The Weekly Wrap] (Photo by Suzanne Neubauer / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) *Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions that bring us closer to economic, environmental and social justice. * *If you enjoy this newsletter, share it with a friend or colleague and tell them to subscribe.* ------------------------------ America’s Civic Health Declines Under Trump Administration Civicus, an international nonprofit that monitors the state of civic freedoms in almost 200 countries, has downgraded the United

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Boulder takes next steps on implementing 15-minute neighborhoods

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.69. apartment, bus stop, comprehensive plan, density, development, housing, income, mobility, multimodal, transportation, urban, walk

What if you could live in Boulder and be 15 minutes from a grocery store, community center, or bus stop? Now, what if that wasn’t a hypothetical? Representatives from a community assembly presented recommendations to the Boulder City Council and Planning Board on Thursday on how Boulder could implement 15-minute neighborhoods. The suggestions may be implemented in the update to the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan, a guiding document for the city and parts of the county. In Boulder’s case, a 15-minute neighborhood is a space in which the average person is a short walk away from what the assem

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What’s Working: Office-bound jobs grew in Colorado in latest employment report 

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.42. construction, development, downtown, growth, homeowner, house, housing, income, project, rent, transportation

------------------------------ *Tamara Chuang* *Business/Technology Reporter* ------------------------------ Colorado eked out a growth of 500 new jobs in September, according to the latest employment report from the state labor department. Focus on just private employers and September was negative, with the state losing 200 jobs. It wasn’t the worst month of the year, nor was it the best. And the belated update, stalled for months because of the longest federal government shutdown in history, is just preliminary. As always, labor data gets revised as employers respond late to monthly governme

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