YIMBY News for 5/4

[Eric Budd]

Big Tech Needs Our Cities. Cities Should Negotiate Like It.

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.83. construction, development, growth, house, housing, impact fee, project, rent, urban, zoning

Workers talk outside an Amazon Web Services data center that is under construction on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Boardman, Oregon. (Photo by Jenny Kane / AP) *This op-ed is part of In the Shadow of the Server, a Next City series on the fight over urban technology infrastructure — who builds it, who benefits, and how local leaders can push back.* The data center boom is often described as inevitable. Artificial intelligence use is suddenly ubiquitous. Cloud computing is growing. Streaming, e-commerce, and digital services need somewhere to live. So when a developer arrives with another massiv

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What’s Working: 44 years after Colorado’s Black Sunday, an incubator in Grand Junction keeps businesses running

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.55. apartment, construction, development, growth, house, housing, mobility, parking, parking lot, project, rent, supply, transportation, walk, zone

------------------------------ *Tracy Ross* *Reporter* ------------------------------ *Quick links: Colorado loses more jobs | Denver-area inflation up to 4.2% | Gas prices up past $4 again | Another rent report | 2024, a deadly year for workers* The way Dalida Sassoon Bollig, CEO of the Business Incubator Center in Grand Junction, tells it, a contractor, a Lego collector and an aerospace parts manufacturer all came in with similar problems. SafeSpace Builders installs equipment that helps people with mobility challenges get around, e-Bricks carries millions of new and used Lego parts dating b

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She has lived in her car for a decade. Denver neighbors wanted her gone

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.88. apartment, homeowner, house, housing, hud, parking, rent, walk

On a cold March morning, Suzanne Elaine McKinney, a 63-year-old attorney, hid behind trash bags and space-blanket curtains — crammed in the driver’s seat of her home, a coffin-tight Mitsubishi Eclipse. The aging yellow sports car was decorated with frayed bumper stickers — Wax Trax, Tattered Cover and “Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues.” There was also a note scrawled on college-ruled notebook paper: Please do not tow. Two dozen feet away, Washington Park neighbors huddled together to discuss McKinney and her car. Not wanting McKinney to hear them, they spoke in hushed voices about how to force h

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The Racetracks We Call Streets

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.06. apartment, bike lane, project, transportation, urban, walk

Some years ago, the urban planner Andres Duany was given a tour of a new roadway by a traffic engineer. “You know,” the engineer boasted, “we can move thousands of cars a day through this baby.” “That’s what we’ve come to,” Duany responded. “We’re moving cars through babies.” It’s a good joke, but it’s also an accurate depiction of the divide between the engineers, who look for ways to move vehicles along streets and highways as fast as possible, and the most recent generation of urban thinkers, who believe that these thoroughfares need to serve a purpose beyond the pursuit of speed for its ow

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