YIMBY News for 7/15

[Eric Budd]

It’s Not 1994 Anymore

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 61.06. apartment, comprehensive plan, density, development, downtown, fair housing, growth, house, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, housing discrimination, income, infill, mixed-use, rent, single family, single-family, transportation, urban, zone, zoning

But will Seattle stop acting like it before it’s too late? With the Covid-19 crisis dragging on, and the climate crisis setting us up for an extended smoke event — it’s almost possible to forget that the housing crisis never abated. This, despite declaring an emergency back in 2015. Fortunately, thanks to legislation passed in 2019 by the City Council, the City of Seattle was obligated to review the Comprehensive Plan (CP) with the race and equity toolkit. While the city has not released a full report based on these findings, the Office of Plan

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Ubax Gardheere 2021 Questionnaire – King County Council District 9

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 51.44. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, comprehensive plan, development, gentrification, gentrified, growth, house, housing, income, multi-modal, real estate, rent, segregate, supply, transportation, urban, zoning

Ubax Gardheere is running for King County Council in District 9 against incumbent Reagan Dunn. Until resigning in protest this April, Gardheere led the Equitable Development Initiative for the City of Seattle; in her resignation letter she noted mistreatment and referred to Jenny Durkan as “a dictator posturing as a mayor.” She worked previously as a program director at Puget Sound Sage and has resided in King County for 25 years. She serves on the board of A Regional Coalition for Housing (ARCH), a partnership of King County cities focused on

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Everything Wrong With Our ‘Highways First’ Approach to Urban Mobility

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 44.00. bike lane, bike to work, development, gentrification, housing, income, mobility, multimodal, project, real estate, rent, transportation, urban, walk

View of I-35 in Texas (Photo by dasroofless / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) *Welcome to “The Mobile City,” our weekly roundup of newsworthy developments in urban transportation.* *It’s Time for Texas DOT to Tear Down Freeways, Not Build Wider Ones, Article Argues* The movement to deconstruct rather than reconstruct freeways has had some notable successes, especially in San Francisco and Milwaukee, where the removal of never-completed freeway stubs touched off waves of reinvestment in both cities and reduced traffic to boot. Now, The Texas Observer recommend

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Utilizing Creative Blight Strategy to Save a Neighborhood

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.22. density, development, downtown, house, mixed-use, parking, preservation, project, rent, urban, walk

Skyscraper, Free* to Good Owner (Photo courtesy Downtown Memphis Commission) Sponsored content from Downtown Memphis Commission. Sponsored content policy Memphis is a town fueled by innovators. The first self-serve grocery store, FedEx, and Rock and Roll were all born in Memphis; even Thomas Edison spent some time in the Bluff City. And while Memphis doesn’t have the influx of new music-industry money that fuels the Nashville economy, it is a city that loves history, leans into adaptive reuse, and cheers for the underdog. And that complicated i

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‘Human Infrastructure’ Package Predicted to Offer Big EV Subsidies, Not Much For Other Modes

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.06. affordable, affordable housing, bike lane, housing, transportation, walk

The massive new infrastructure package announced on Tuesday promises to pump hundreds of billions into affordable housing and other policies that will make active transportation a viable option for more Americans — but it may also include big money for electric vehicles with little for other modes, unless advocates for active and shared transportation speak out. Senior Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee said their $3.5-trillion spending package — which they expect to pass without Republican support through reconciliation if they can sway

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After Long Process, West Marginal Way Bike Connection Delayed to 2022

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.94. bike lane, house, mobility, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has announced that it will hold off on constructing an on-street bike connection from the West Seattle Bridge Trail to the Duwamish River Trail on West Marginal Way SW until after the West Seattle High bridge reopens to vehicle traffic next year. The connection was originally planned to be included in a slate of improvements that would improve conditions for all road users along West Marginal Way, including the completion of the missing sidewalk directly north of the Duwamish Tribe’s Long House, w

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Miyazaki's Urbanism

Strong Towns

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.44. house, income, parking, parking lot, rent, transportation, urban, walk

The films of Hayao Miyazaki have been beloved for decades by children and adults alike. Their unique animation and storytelling have revolutionized animated films around the world, they are among the top-grossing animated movies in Japan, and they’ve been nominated for multiple Academy Awards. *Spirited Away* won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2003, and in 2014 Miyazaki himself was given an honorary award for his impact on cinema. Miyazaki’s films feature intricately fantastic, yet grounded worlds. But for a few elements, like the aircr

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