YIMBY News for 10/14

[Eric Budd]

Why Housing Density Has Become a Key Issue in the New Jersey Governor's Race

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 41.25. affordable, affordable housing, construction, cost of housing, density, development, house, housing, income, preservation, project, rent, supply, urban, zoning

In Brief: A Republican running for governor of New Jersey is describing overdevelopment of the suburbs as a crisis. He says he’d undo a state law requiring cities to contribute a share of the state’s housing needs. A group of towns has challenged the law in court, without success so far. Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey, talks a lot about the state’s high cost of living. He talks about housing, too, but not often in the same sentence. New Jersey’s problem isn’t that it’s building too little housing, Ciattarelli says: It’s that it’s building too much. One ad

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Does the AI boom threaten local air quality? A north Denver neighborhood is about to find out

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 35.22. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, downtown, growth, house, housing, project, rent, urban, zone, zoning

Dr. Pam Valenza wasn’t immediately alarmed by the construction outside Tepeyac Community Health Center. The nonprofit clinic, where she works as the chief health officer, sits in the heart of Elyria-Swansea, a working-class and largely Latino neighborhood in north Denver. Her office is part of a larger redevelopment to convert an entire city block into brightly colored community spaces and affordable housing. Until last summer, Valenza assumed the excavators were at work on the final phase of the project: a long-planned affordable senior living facility. But while scrolling on social media one

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Boulder council moves forward a fee to fund transportation management projects

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.55. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, growth, house, housing, income, project, single-family, transportation

Is the third time a charm for a transportation management fee in Boulder? The Boulder City Council is considering the fee to keep up with maintenance of roads, bridges and other infrastructure needs. The first reading was approved by the city council in its Thursday meeting on a 6-1 vote. Mark Wallach voted against is while Taishya Adams and Tara Winer absent. This is the third time the fee has been considered by the city council since a 2008 report concluded the city needed to raise revenue and diversify its revenue sources. A study presented to the city council on Thursday estimates the fee

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Metro Plans Trolleybus Investments, with Long Implementation Timelines

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.56. bus route, construction, downtown, project, rent, supply, transportation, urban

Electric trolleybuses wouldn’t return to Route 12 until 2029 or to Route 48 until 2032. King County Metro is in the middle of an electrification reset, as county leaders recalibrate on the question of how best to move the agency toward a zero-emission future amid a precarious funding landscape. As part of that reset, Metro is set to give some attention to an old standby: electric trolleybuses. But while the agency’s proposed biennial budget includes a funding boost to advance a slate of trolley projects, those plans are coming with timelines that are likely to give Seattle transit advocates he

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