YIMBY News for 5/21

[Eric Budd]

Denver has a plan to heat and cool buildings without fossil fuels. It involves … sewage?

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.20. affordable, downtown, house, parking, parking lot, rent, walk

By Ishan Thakore NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about how communities are moving forward on climate solutions despite significant political headwinds. As the federal government halts plans to address climate change, states, cities, regions, and even neighborhoods are trying to fill the gap by cutting climate pollution and adapting to extreme weather. Like in many American cities, Denver’s largest source of climate pollution is its buildings. Powering, heating and cooling the city’s skyscrapers takes a lot of fossil fuels. Now, the city is trying a greener solution. It pl

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At bus stops across Durango, these volunteers try to shield families from ICE

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.09. bus stop, construction, downtown, house, rent, urban, walk

[image: A yellow school bus approaches as children with backpacks wait at the side of a rural road in the early morning.] *Editor’s note: *This story is the first installment in a series about the people helping immigrants in the face of elevated ICE activity across Colorado. More to come this week. *DURANGO* The sun has not yet spilled onto the roads winding through the Animas Valley as elementary school kids, oversized backpacks on their small frames, gather at the bus stop at the edge of their mobile home park. In the low light, it’s easy for dark, unfamiliar cars to lurk in the shadows. At

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Getting to the Game: How Texas Is Planning World Cup Transit

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.03. parking, parking lot, project, rent, transportation

In Brief: Public transportation plays a starring role in the Dallas area’s World Cup transit planning, given that many attendees are traveling to the area from overseas and won’t have a car. The Dallas region’s transit plans include a special shuttle bus service, traffic signal control, crowd management, translation services and more. The North Central Texas Council of Governments is pulling lessons from past events and preparing to respond fast to unexpected hiccups. Dallas and the surrounding area are expecting over 1 million World Cup visitors over the course of a month of games this year,

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