YIMBY News for 5/6

[Eric Budd]

Colorado state lawmakers abandon efforts to legalize smaller lots for single-family homes

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.34. apartment, density, growth, house, housing, housing cost, planning commission, project, single-family, urban, zone, zoning

*This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at coloradosun.com.* *By Brian Eason, The Colorado Sun * Colorado Democrats abandoned a pair of bills aimed at legalizing homebuilding on smaller lots, delivering a rare win to critics of the state’s steady push for more housing. One measure, House Bill 1114, would have banned many local governments from requiring lot sizes that exceed 2,000 square feet, while the other, House Bill 1308, would have allowed developers to split lots in order to build two single-family homes on land initially zoned for one.

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Universities Can Bridge the Gap Between Climate Science and City Hall

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.31. development, housing, project, rent, transportation, urban

(Phto by Andrej Lišakov / Unsplash) Cities will determine whether the world succeeds or fails in confronting climate change. Urban areas produce roughly 75% of global carbon emissions, a share that continues to grow as more people move to cities, and are also on the front lines of extreme heat, flooding, air pollution and other climate impacts. To guide how they grow and adapt to shape the best possible future of the planet, cities need cutting-edge scientific research – knowledge gaps that higher education institutions are well-positioned to help fill. By and large, academia remains distant f

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It’s Time For Congress to Connect America’s Active Transportation Networks

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.55. affordable, bike lane, development, house, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

Editor’s note: a version of this article originally appeared on the RailsToTrails.org and is republished with permission. Within a few weeks, we may see the first public text and committee action for the next federal bill that governs the nation’s transportation policies — including the programs that provide the lion’s share of funding for active transportation and set the priorities for states and municipalities across the American landscape. In the face of recent federal volatility toward trails, walking and biking, this will be a litmus test. While demand for this infrastructure is unpreced

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Falling birth rates don’t have to be a crisis

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.28. affordable, house, housing, housing stock, project, rent, walk

[image: Illustration of the elderly walking, some using canes, others wheelchairs] Let’s face it: Another baby boom isn’t coming anytime soon. The latest round of US birth data, released earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show the general fertility rate has dropped to a new record low of 53.1 per 1,000 females between 15 and 44 — a 23 percent decrease since the most recent peak in 2007. It’s the latest data point in a long global trend toward fewer children, which means our already aging populace will get even older over time, with fewer young workers to hand

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Meet the NIMBY’s Toxic Cousin: the NOMS (Not On My Street)

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.91. bike lane, bus rapid transit, development, mobility, nimby, project, transportation, walk

A new study argues that the notorious anti-development figure known as the NIMBY, for Not In My Backyard, has an equally toxic cousin in the transportation realm: the NOMS, or Not On My Street. And the researcher who coined the new term warns that U.S. communities will struggle to achieve lasting change until they reckon with the outsized influence of NOMS and their disturbing car-first ideology. In a recent analysis of hundreds of public comments given at community meetings in Washington, D.C. across four years, researcher Ashton Rohmer found several troubling trends in the rhetoric of reside

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Colorado homes on sale fill up inventory during spring buying-time

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.72. affordable, homeowner, house, housing, income, real estate, single family

It’s harder to sell a home in Colorado these days, even with summer right around the corner. The promise of long sunny days typically brings homebuyers out in droves. But those buyers are getting pickier and inventory, the number of homes sitting on the market, is climbing across the state. Nowhere is the trend more evident than in Denver, the state’s largest housing market. The Denver metro — which includes Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin, Jefferson and Park counties — accounts for about 39% of all active listings in Colorado. In Denver, ther

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