YIMBY News for 7/9

[Eric Budd]

Cook County Judge dismisses Edgewater lawsuit, says NIMBYs can't use potential decrease in property values to overturn upzoning

YIMBY Law

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.02. condo, development, gentrification, housing, housing cost, nimby, parking, rent, renter, single-family, yimby, zone, zoning

Across the country, neighborhood upzonings and dense housing developments are being met with NIMBY lawsuits — impeding housing development in the middle of a nationwide housing shortage. But the good news is that some courts aren’t having it. In Chicago, a NIMBY lawsuit was dismissed last week, preventing the undoing of a major upzoning in Edgewater and Uptown, two neighborhoods near the city’s northern border. On October 16, 2025, the City of Chicago enacted two ordinances, upzoning hundreds of properties along both sides of the neighborhoods’ main thoroughfare, Broadway Avenue (from Foster A

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Issaquah Councilmembers Push for Bolder Options as Housing Reforms Ramp Up

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.17. apartment, development, growth, housing, housing authority, housing crisis, parking, project, rent, transit center, urban

[image: Issaquah Councilmembers Push for Bolder Options as Housing Reforms Ramp Up] For years, Issaquah has been trying to spur development in its central core, an area dominated by big box stores and surface parking. A cavalcade of planned updates to development standards and building requirements advanced by Issaquah's new mayor is intended to finally start to make a difference, but two city councilmembers are raising concerns around how the process to review and approve those changes is playing out so far. On June 29, the Issaquah City Council approved an ordinance scaling back requirements

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