YIMBY News for 10/20

[Eric Budd]

Getting Ahead of the NIMBY Energy': An Older City Learns to Build

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.42. affordable, apartment, construction, development, downtown, housing, nimby, project, public space, rent, supply, urban, walk, zoning

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Fall 2025 Magazine. You can subscribe here. New Rochelle is a classic New York suburban bedroom community. Its recent transformation is the result of concerted planning that began about a decade ago. Efforts to revitalize a once-thriving downtown stalled after the Great Recession, in part because builders found it difficult to get projects approved. In 2015, city leaders adopted a new strategy to jump-start development within a 300-acre area surrounding a train station where commuters can catch a 37-minute ride to Midtown Manhattan. Now, New R

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Pushback by counties on solar projects is challenging climate goals, Colorado officials say

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.92. development, house, housing, land-use, project, rent, zoning

Colorado must triple its wind generation and quintuple its solar capacity to meet 2040 clean energy targets and that will call for a lot of land — land developers say it is hard to come by in some counties. Counties make the land use rules and in some, “procedural hurdles, community opposition, land-use concerns and regulatory gaps can impact projects,” according to a survey done by the Colorado Energy Office. And those local land use decisions can be at odds with the state’s clean energy goals, according to the energy office report. “There are places where there are local policies that stall

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How Tactical Urbanists Make the Water Visible to the Fish

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.48. house, parking, project, public space, real estate, rent, transportation, urban, walk

(Photo courtesy Park(ing) Day) Tactical urbanism has the power to pierce the automotive bubble that so frequently surrounds politicians — sometimes in an almost literal sense, because so many elected officials are driven everywhere. It can force them to see that they can become catalysts for rapid change if they really want to. But the value of these tactics goes well beyond the safety (and frequent smiles) that these interventions provide for cyclists or pedestrians who pass by while they’re in place — or even the permanent infrastructure changes they might inspire. A key benefit of tactical

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