YIMBY News for 7/7

[Eric Budd]

Business owners hail changes to Boulder’s ‘incredibly frustrating’ development review process

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.25. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, homeowner, house, housing, income, parking, project, rent

Boulder business owners are celebrating recent code changes that are expected to make the city’s development review process significantly faster and less complicated. The existing review process, which involves multiple steps and can require approval from city staff and boards, can be so long and arduous that one business owner described it as a “nightmare.” The city acknowledged in a staff presentation that the city’s use review process is a “significant barrier” for new businesses. Matt Bernstein has owned a business in Boulder for more than eight years. He’s in the process of moving his gym

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Colorado home building suffers from high interest rates

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.81. affordable, apartment, construction, development, housing, housing cost, real estate, rent, single-family

Mortgage interest rates are high, making homes less affordable — and reducing demand. Builders have responded by constructing fewer homes. Approved home permits have declined substantially in recent years, with total approved housing down 41 percent in the first five months of the year compared to the same period two years ago, according to data from the Census Bureau. “Since interest rates went up pretty dramatically back in the summer of 2022, the home building industry and the buyer demand has impacted pretty dramatically,” said John Covert, director of land services with Cushman and Wakefi

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Rural Colorado town’s battle against solar project raises questions about the cultural cost of clean energy

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.33. construction, development, growth, house, land-use, nimby, planning commission, preservation, project, rent, supply

[image: aerial view of sagebrush in open landscape] Story first appeared in: It seemed like a good idea. Put a large solar array on 640 acres of sagebrush and cedar about 30 miles northwest of Telluride. There was already a transmission line running through the property and only some cattle poking around in the shrubs and trees. The Colorado State Land Board, owner of the parcel, had made siting renewable energy facilities a priority and even amended the lease on the Wright’s Mesa land to give solar panels precedence over cows. What could possibly go wrong? And so, on a May evening last year,

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