YIMBY News for 11/22

[Eric Budd]

Katie Wilson’s Transition Team Features Mix of Advocates and Insiders

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 39.38. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, development, house, housing, project, public space, rent, renter, urban

On Wednesday, Seattle Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson announced the leaders of her transition team, who will aid her in selecting her cabinet and identifying the departmental leadership shakeups to carry out. To lead the transition, Wilson tapped Andrés Mantilla of the consulting firm Uncommon Bridges and announced four co-chairs who will all lay the groundwork ahead of her official swearing-in in early January. - *Karen Estevenin*, Executive Director of PROTEC17 — a labor union representing more than 10,000 public-sector workers across Washington and Oregon. - *Tiffani McCoy*, Co-Executive Director

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The Weekly Wrap: Iowa City’s Free Buses Are a Transit and Environmental Win

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 35.08. bus stop, cost of housing, downtown, house, housing, housing crisis, parking, rent, transportation, urban

[image: The Weekly Wrap] Iowa City Transit says it provides a million rides a year by serving more than 500 bus stops. (Photo by JLiu1596 / CC BY-SA 4.0) 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. ------------------------------ Iowa City’s Free Buses Cleared Up Traffic and the Air In August 2023, Iowa City eliminated its bus fare. The t

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Boulder region faces unique housing challenges, broker says

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.84. affordable, average house, house, housing, income, real estate, single-family

Former U.S. House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill famously said “all politics is local.” That also applies to residential real estate, a longtime broker told an audience Thursday during the Boulder Valley Real Estate Conference presented by BizWest, held this year at the new Limelight Hotel in Boulder. “Kind of like politics, all real estate is local, especially here in Boulder,” said Jay Kalinski, owner and broker of Re/Max of Boulder and Re/Max Elevate. “We’re not like the middle of Kansas, where every home is basically the same and it’s easy to plug it into an algorithm. Here, it depends on

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Williams Village II gets Boulder council OK; Dark Horse bar will move

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.44. development, housing, mixed-use, parking, parking lot, preservation, project, rent

The Dark Horse bar has been the hangout for University of Colorado Boulder students for 50 years. Now, the Boulder staple will officially move from its home at 2922 Baseline Road after the Boulder City Council unanimously approved a plan to redevelop that land into a multi-building complex with more than 400 residential units and commercial space. The Williams Village II project plans to redevelop 7.96 acres of the existing 9.86 acres at 2952 Baseline Road. After leveling all of the existing buildings on the property, save for the Broker Inn, crews will erect five buildings with 427 residentia

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How Does Major Change Actually Happen in Urban Policy?

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.25. development, housing, income, rent, urban

(Photo by Todd Quackenbush / Unsplash) Can U.S. cities deal effectively with “wicked” social problems, or is the nature of urban politics to be mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis, making policy change nearly impossible? Rephrased in political science terminology: Can nonincremental change — change that breaks with baseline policy and creates a new baseline — happen in urban politics? Or is incremental change – which modifies the baseline but leaves it intact — all that U.S. cities can muster? Incremental change is not necessarily bad. But like all polities, cities must be abl

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Why you can’t bribe your way to a low fixed span bridge

City Observatory

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.66. construction, development, downtown, house, multimodal, project, rent, transportation

*The Oregon and Washington transportation departments want to build a low fixed span to replace the current I-5 lift bridge.* *They’ve signed $140 million in deals with four shippers whose current operations would be affected by the reduced clearance. They’re hoping this convinces the Coast Guard to allow a low span.* *But the Coast Guard has signaled that isn’t sufficient, and that it wants a higher span to protect future uses of the river, not merely the current users. The Coast Guard already said so in 2022 in response to a previous IBR report containing virtually the same information.* *“I

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