YIMBY News for 7/16

[Eric Budd]

Buffalo’s First Mobility Hub Rolls Forward

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 55.16. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, bike lane, comprehensive plan, construction, development, downtown, housing, market-rate, mixed-use, mobility, parking, parking lot, project, real estate, rent, transportation, urban, walk, zone, zoning

Rendering of 201 Ellicott St in Buffalo, where the city's first mobility hub will open later this year (Courtesy CannonDesign/James Lai) For many years, the Downtown Buffalo lot at 201 Ellicott was dedicated to parking — hardly an anomaly in a city where nearly half its downtown had been converted into parking lots. But after a major city zoning change that eliminated minimum parking requirements for new developments and extensive community engagement about the lot’s future, it’s about to hold something completely new. The under-construction af

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Shukri Olow 2021 Questionnaire – King County Council District 5

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 44.25. affordable, affordable housing, gentrification, growth, homeowner, housing, mobility, multi-modal, project, rent, renter, transportation, urban

Shukri Olow is running for King County Council District 5 against longtime incumbent Dave Upthegrove. She is a community organizer and doctoral scholar. “As an immigrant, refugee, and product of the Kent public housing system, Dr. Olow has seen and lived the challenges that so many members of our community face,” her website states. Check out Olow’s campaign website for more info. The Urbanist Election Committee has followed up on our questionnaires with Zoom interviews to fill in the gaps. We released our Primary Endorsements in late June and

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Dave Upthegrove 2021 Questionnaire – King County Council District 5

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 42.19. development, growth, house, housing, income, mobility, multi-modal, project, rent, urban, walk, zoning

Dave Upthegrove is running for a third term representing the 5th District in the King County Council. Before his County Council career, Upthegrove served in the Washington State House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013. He was a co-sponsor of recent legislation to expand tenant rights and require just cause for evictions in unincorporated King County. Check out Upthegrove’s campaign website for more info. The Urbanist Election Committee has followed up on our questionnaires with Zoom interviews to fill in the gaps. We released our Primary End

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Anywhere Can Be Somewhere (and Other Walking Lessons)

Strong Towns

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.75. affordable, affordable housing, house, housing, income, project, public space, rent, single-family, urban, walk

[image: 20201215_173008.jpg] One of the things I miss most about childhood—and will admit that I hope to find lots of excuses to recapture now that I'm a parent—is how effortlessly a child can turn nowhere at all into the most interesting place in the universe for a short span of time. A single tree can captivate a kid for an hour, learning the texture of its bark and the pattern of its leaves, surveilling the canopy for birds, following the lines of the roots like ancient roads from Rome to the hinterlands. Kids haven't learned to be either bo

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Denver May Soon Create the Country’s First Historic District Honoring the Chicano Movement

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.69. construction, development, gentrification, house, housing, income, preservation, project, rent, single-family, urban, walk

La Alma, by Emanuel Martinez at La Alma Recreation Center, Denver (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) Lucha Martinez de Luna was baptized in front of a mural her father painted in Denver’s La Alma Lincoln Park, over an altar her father originally created for a mass in California where Cesar Chavez ended his 25-day hunger strike in protest against unfair employment practices and unsuitable work conditions for migrant laborers. During a wave of so-called “urban renewal” in 1970s Denver, that mural was destroyed. But the altar is now in the Smithsonian.

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SPUR Talk: Lessons from Delft, an Urban Ideal

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.59. bike lane, mobility, rent, transportation, urban, walk

The near total dominance of cars and car infrastructure in American cities aren’t just killing us directly in crashes, it’s harming us every day through less obvious health effects. “It puts people in a constant state of stress,” said Melissa Bruntlett, co-author of *Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives*, a new book from IslandPress, during a talk Wednesday morning at SPUR that focused on life in the Dutch city of Delft. Obesity, mental health, pollution, isolation–cities designed around the automobile contribute in multi

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It’s Not Just Roads and Bridges: Our “Civic Infrastructure” is Crumbling, and Here’s How to Fix It

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.31. affordable, affordable housing, house, housing, project, public space, rent, transportation

Places like parks and public space can strengthen civic infrastructure by bringing people together. (Photo by SDOT Photos / CC BY-NC 2.0) “Infrastructure” is the talk of the town in Washington, DC as cracked bridges, melting cables, and maxed out electric grids make news every week. But it is not just the roads and wires that carry our goods and information that are in need of an update. The signs of a broader decay in our public information ecosystem are everywhere: disappearing local news coverage, a lack of trust in our elections and politic

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