YIMBY News for 7/17

[Eric Budd]

Minnesota’s New Green Bank Is Powering a Net-Zero, Mixed-Use Development With Affordable Housing

Next City

---

KEYWORD SCORE: 40.73. affordable, affordable housing, density, development, house, housing, mixed-use, project, rent, single-family, urban

An artist's rendering of the planned residential development at The Heights, a mixed-use development slated to bring 1,000 living wage jobs,1,000 affordable housing units, and strong environmental benefits to Saint Paul's East Side. (Image by LHB Corp) For nearly a century, Hillcrest Golf Club was home for golf aficionados in St. Paul, Minnesota. Opened in 1921 on land that was originally home to the Dakota people, the 110-acre course was designed by the brother of pro golfer Harry Vardon, grandfather of the modern golf swing. Over the course of its storied existence, the property was bought b

Share via:

Carrie Hauser takes charge at Trust for Public Land after 11 years at Colorado Mountain College, two terms on CPW commission

Colorado Sun

---

KEYWORD SCORE: 26.23. development, house, housing, income, preservation, project, real estate, urban, walk

Carrie Besnette Hauser grew up climbing down first. As a kid in northern Arizona, she’d often hike into the Grand Canyon, where descents precede ascents. In Colorado, she flipped the direction of her off-road ambling and climbed all the state’s 14ers. Those ascents are a mere footnote in her list of Colorado accomplishments, where the outdoorswoman and Ph.D. recipient spent 11 years guiding Colorado Mountain College, worked two terms as a commissioner for Colorado Parks and Wildlife and served on more than a dozen high-profile rural and urban business, finance, governance and charitable boards

Share via:

How North Carolina’s Vietnamese Refugees Are Helping a New Wave of Afghans Resettle

Next City

---

KEYWORD SCORE: 25.08. housing, income, preservation, project, rent, walk

[image: Mir Habibullah Akhagar (left) and Shahpeerai Aimaq (right)] *This story was co-published with Triad City Beat as part of our joint Equitable Cities Reporting Fellowship For Racial Justice Narratives.* Life was already chaotic when Mir Habibullah Akhagar and his family arrived in Washington, DC. They were one of hundreds of thousands of Afghan people fleeing the Taliban regime, which took over Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, in Aug. 2021. His family’s evacuation to the U.S. took weeks to coordinate: weeks living in cramped hotel rooms, dodging heavy surveillance and catching long flights

Share via:

Bellevue Won’t Even Study Bel-Red Road Changes to Protect People Biking

The Urbanist

---

KEYWORD SCORE: 24.58. bike lane, development, growth, mobility, multimodal, project, transportation, urban, vision zero, walk

Those hoping for safe biking facilities on one of Bellevue’s most dangerous streets faced a major setback last week, after the Bellevue Transportation Commission voted against further study of changes to Bel-Red Road. The five lanes of NE Bel-Red Road offer a direct connection between Bellevue’s fast-growing Spring District and BelRed neighborhoods and booming Overlake in Redmond. However, the corridor has long been an unavoidable obstacle to multimodal travel in the city, with narrow sidewalks, fast moving traffic, and no room for people on bikes. Despite the fact that people biking, rolling,

Share via:

Where Have All the Washington State Ferries Walk-on Passengers Gone?

The Urbanist

---

KEYWORD SCORE: 22.50. bike lane, downtown, multimodal, project, transportation, urban, walk

Washington State Ferries (WSF) ridership has recovered from the pandemic faster than nearly any public transit agency in the state. 2023 WSF ridership recovered to 78% of the 2019 ridership, better recovery than all but three Washington state transit agencies. But the recovery has been uneven, with drive-on ridership (drivers, passengers, and motorcycles) recovering much faster than ‘walk-ons’ (pedestrians and bicyclists). WSF drive-on ridership has recovered 78% of its 2019 ridership, but just 56% of walk-on passengers. The three agencies ahead of WSF (KT fast ferry, Link Light Rail, and Spok

Share via:

Interview: Justin Schwartz, CU Boulder’s first new chancellor in 15 years, relishes the challenge of higher education

Colorado Public Radio

---

KEYWORD SCORE: 22.22. affordable, affordable housing, cost of housing, housing, parking, project, rent

For the first time in 15 years, there’s a new person at the helm of Colorado’s flagship university. Justin Schwartz officially took the reins as the University of Colorado Boulder’s chancellor at the beginning of July. Schwartz comes to Boulder with a wealth of experience across public institutions of higher education , previously holding leadership positions at North Carolina State University and Pennsylvania State University. He said that background makes him the perfect person to push CU forward. “I think having lived in a lot of places and experiencing a wide variety of cultures, both vari

Share via: