YIMBY News for 1/8

[Eric Budd]

The Clock Is Ticking For NYC To Save Community Opportunity To Purchase

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.00. affordable, affordable housing, housing, preservation, project, real estate, urban

[image: Backyard] Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives to court, Feb. 19, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP) Almost six years after the first version of the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) was first put forward, New York City council members successfully passed the bill during one of their final meetings of 2025. The long-fought policy would give nonprofits (and for-profit organizations that partner with nonprofits) first dibs at purchasing distressed residential properties before they hit the speculative market. Two weeks after housing rights advo

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Op-Ed: Sea-Tac Airport Transportation: Off the Road and Onto the Train

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.16. affordable, bus route, density, income, mobility, occupancy, parking, parking garage, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

Getting to and from SEA Airport should not feel like an endurance test. Yet for travelers and for the more than 23,000 people who work at SEA every day, the commute remains a persistent challenge. Post-pandemic, the public’s travel habits snapped back, and the long-ago decision to place the light rail station a quarter mile from the terminal continues to act as a serious barrier for transit riders where at best it’s an inconvenience, and at worst it’s a mobility impossibility. My fellow port commissioners and I have explored multiple solutions to this issue, including attaching a moving walkwa

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Want to Feed the Ducks? Better Check With Your HOA.

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.52. apartment, condo, development, growth, homeowner, house, housing, parking, public space, rent, urban

A couple of months ago, the resident owners in my condominium voted on a referendum from the homeowners’ association to decide whether smoking should be prohibited everywhere on the property — not just in the public spaces but in the individual residences as well. I don’t smoke; I’ve never smoked; I don’t even like being around the smell of tobacco. But I was conflicted about how to cast my vote. It seemed to me that smoking falls in the category of activities people should be able to pursue in the privacy of their homes. The anti-smoking side countered that smoking was a fire hazard for the w

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Brianna Lehman appointed to Lafayette Planning Commission after council reopened application process

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.98. construction, development, housing, land-use, planning commission, rent, transportation, zoning

The Lafayette City Council voted unanimously to appoint Brianna Lehman to the city’s planning commission after the application process for a vacant seat on the commission was reopened in November by a divided council vote. The Lafayette Planning Commission consists of seven members, as outlined by the city’s charter, and makes recommendations to the City Council on land-use matters including rezonings, subdivisions, planned unit developments, special use reviews, and site and architectural plan reviews. “Zoning” is a local government’s rules for what types of developments can be built in diffe

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Erika Evans Takes City Attorney Oath, SPOG Goes on Attack

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.17. comp plan, comprehensive plan, density, growth, rent, urban, zone

At a well-attended ceremony on Monday, Erika Evans was sworn in as the newest Seattle City Attorney. Evans won in a resounding victory over Republican incumbent Ann Davison, receiving over 62% of the vote. Evans is the first Black person to be elected to this role, as well as the first woman of color. In a discordant note, right-wing media attacks against Evans began before the ceremony had even been conducted, with a concerted effort to brand her as soft on crime already underway from the Seattle Police Officers Guild and right-leaning media sources. Evans was sworn in by U.S. Federal Distric

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