YIMBY News for 10/18

[Eric Budd]

Duvall Growth Plan Faces Challenge After Disregarding New Housing Law

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 46.16. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, comprehensive plan, construction, density, development, growth, higher-density, house, housing, income, market-rate, occupancy, project, rent, renter, urban, zone, zoning

The small Eastside exurb of Duvall, tucked into the Cascade foothills northeast of Redmond, has found itself the latest Puget Sound city to be defending its housing growth plan at a state appeals board. But unlike recent growth plan appeals, including one focused on Mercer Island that resulted in a high-profile ruling against the city, this appeal comes directly from Washington’s state government. At the heart of the appeal is Duvall’s decision to not implement a new state law intended to increase housing choice and availability, with a city official telling the state that official guidance im

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The Weekly Wrap: The CDFI Fund Is Caught in Limbo

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.94. apartment, development, growth, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing authority, hud, rent, renter, urban

[image: The Weekly Wrap] Carver Federal Savings Bank is one of about 1,500 federally-certified community development financial institutions. (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) *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.* ------------------------------ Trump’s Move To Axe All CDFI Fund Staff Draws Bipartisan Backlash On Friday night last w

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In Lafayette, housing gets $750K from Boulder County’s Affordable and Attainable Housing Tax

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.42. affordable, affordable housing, development, downtown, homeowner, house, housing, housing authority, income, market-rate, preservation, project, rent

A bucket of money from Boulder County’s Affordable and Attainable Housing Tax — in the amount of $750,000 — will go toward the purchase and renovation of two homes in Lafayette, the county has announced. Both homes, previously owned by the Boulder County Housing Authority, were to eventually be added to Boulder’s Regional Affordable Homeownership Program, in which homes sell at below-market-rate prices to buyers who qualify because of income, according to the county. An additional $1.1 million in Affordable and Attainable Housing Tax funds are also being used to support the phase 2 work of the

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Boulder council delays decision on landscape restrictions

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.69. construction, density, housing, project, public hearing, urban

Specifics are still being ironed out on an ordinance that, if approved, would drastically reshape landscaping in the city of Boulder. The Boulder City Council pushed a public hearing back to its Dec. 18 meeting on the landscaping ordinance, which, if eventually approved, would institute major landscaping rules such as limits on when lawns can be watered and following state law on replacing non-functional natural turf with artificial turf. The ordinance is also an extension of the council’s ongoing adoption of wildfire hardiness rules, and it includes resiliency measures that have stoked confus

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Metro Scales Back Scope of RapidRide K, R Lines

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.61. bus rapid transit, bus route, downtown, project, rent, transportation, urban

Due to changing “budget realities,” King County Metro is scaling back the expected budgets for the next two RapidRide bus rapid transit projects currently in planning, the K Line between Bellevue and Kirkland and the R Line between Downtown Seattle and the Rainier Valley. The reductions, which would slash the R Line’s budget by 25% and the K Line’s budget by 20%, are likely to result in more slimmed down projects that drop potential rider amenities or speed and reliability improvements that would otherwise have been included. The move comes as Metro recalibrates its entire capital program in r

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