YIMBY News for 5/12

[Eric Budd]

Sound Transit Board Grapples with Plan to Rebalance ST3

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.11. affordable, construction, development, downtown, house, infill, project, rent, transportation, urban

[image: Sound Transit Board Grapples with Plan to Rebalance ST3] Members of the Sound Transit Board of Directors are facing a weighty decision over the next few weeks, ahead of a scheduled May 28 vote to rebalance expansion plans that have been on the books for years. On Thursday, the board's Executive Committee took its first stab at a proposal by Chair Dave Somers to keep some Sound Transit 3 (ST3) projects on track and indefinitely defer others, including nearly half of a light rail line between SoDo and Ballard and several long-promised infill stations on the existing 1 Line. The agency is

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Science and art come to life in Pueblo this June with opening of da Vinci museum along revamped riverwalk

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.66. development, downtown, house, housing, parking, parking lot, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk, zoning

[image: A woman wearing black rimmed glasses stands on red scaffolding under a doorway reading "Piazza Leonardo" to the lower right of the fram, a man wearing a suit looks up at her.] *PUEBLO — *Whether they were setting up new offices, painting archways and murals in a soon-to-open museum or celebrating in Tuscany, a handful of Puebloans have been busily preparing in recent days for what they expect to be a renaissance on the city’s riverwalk. Wait, what? Celebrating in Tuscany? Italy? Indeed. Representatives of the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of North America, which will open June 12 on the Pue

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Colorado lawmakers reject environmentalist-backed effort to regulate data centers

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.16. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, house, housing, project, public hearing, transportation, zone

*Co-written by *Taylor Dolven, The Colorado Sun Colorado lawmakers abandoned a last-minute effort Monday to pass environmental regulations for data center development in the state. After rewriting the environmentalist-backed legislation, Senate Bill 102, to add a tax incentive for data centers, state Sen. Cathy Kipp, D-Fort Collins*, *proposed that her bill be postponed indefinitely. The Senate Transportation and Energy committee voted down the legislation unanimously, putting an end to the measure Kipp has been working on for about a year. The bill, also sponsored by Rep. Kyle Brown, D-Louisv

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