YIMBY News for 12/16

[Eric Budd]

Kirkland Council Makes Way for Redevelopment of Contentious Juanita Sites

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 56.25. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, density, development, downtown, growth, height limit, house, housing, mixed-use, parking, planning commission, project, rent, urban, walk, zone, zoning

Last week, the Kirkland City Council rezoned two underdeveloped commercial properties in north Kirkland, concluding a long process to unlock significant redevelopment opportunities in the face of some community opposition. The two sites, currently home to a Michael’s arts and craft store and a Goodwill in the Juanita neighborhood, could bring hundreds of new homes to one of the Eastside’s most in-demand cities and add more amenities within walking distance of existing residents’ homes. Supporters see rezoning the two parcels as advancing a key element of Kirkland’s growth strategy, which seeks

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Colorado’s modular builders stand at a crossroads. Experts say more help is on the way.

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 44.00. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, downtown, growth, house, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, hud, project, real estate, rent, single-family

Dmitry Yesilevsky never envisioned himself leading a construction company. That was until a friend of his, who is a real estate developer, approached him with a new opportunity. Yesilevsky, a former personal trainer, joined his friend Marko Mackovic’s modular construction company called EcoMod in Hudson in 2023. The company transforms unused shipping containers into modular units that can be used to create multifamily, single-family and accessory dwelling unit homes. EcoMod has big plans to help address Colorado’s affordable housing crisis. At scale, Yesilevsky says the company could have up t

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The Cleared Path We Need for Sweeping Urban Experiments

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 41.42. apartment, construction, density, development, downtown, house, housing, land-use, nimby, project, real estate, single-family, urban, zone

Earlier this fall, the Silicon Valley dreamers proposing to build a 400,000-person city and manufacturing hub on rangeland 50 miles northeast of San Francisco released a detailed rendition of their plan, which they call “California Forever.” It’s unlike anything the United States has seen before: exurban in location, intensely urban by design. The new city will be laid out on a compact grid, with interlocking streets, rapid-transit routes and greenways for pedestrians and cyclists. The city’s least-dense residential neighborhoods will be zoned for 85-foot apartment buildings, taller than essen

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Longmont City Council to appoint new members to boards, commissions

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.44. development, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing authority, income, preservation, project, public hearing, transportation, urban, zoning

On the agenda for Tuesday’s Longmont City Council meeting are liaison appointments to boards, housing authority advisory board appointments and city advisory board and commission appointments. This is scheduled to be the last council meeting of the year. According to documents from the city clerk’s office, a total of 35 applications were received for 29 vacant positions during the application window, which opened on Sept. 8 and closed Oct. 17. The vacancies go as follows: Airport Advisory Board: 3 vacancies; Callahan House Advisory Board: 3 vacancies; Golf Course Advisory Board: 2 vacancies; H

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