YIMBY News for 4/30

[Eric Budd]

Washington State Gives Bainbridge Island Marching Orders on Housing Changes

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 45.08. affordable, affordable housing, comprehensive plan, density, development, growth, house, housing, income, market-rate, planning commission, project, rent, urban, zone, zoning

[image: Washington State Gives Bainbridge Island Marching Orders on Housing Changes] The clock is officially ticking for the City of Bainbridge Island's long overdue growth plan, after the Washington Department of Commerce sent the city a letter last week containing a laundry list of items where the city is falling short of requirements to plan for housing under the Growth Management Act. Commerce sent the letter as part of its first wave of reviews of select local growth plans under the 2025 Housing Accountability Act, giving Bainbridge 120 days to make updates and adopt a compliant plan. If

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City of Patterson Can’t Use Water as a Pretext to Block Housing

YIMBY Law

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.61. construction, development, housing, housing crisis, planning commission, project, rent, single-family, yimby

Patterson, the city of 23,000 in California’s Central Valley, may be the Apricot Capital of the World, but it’s unlikely it will ever be called the Housing Capital of the World. While the city government is embracing distribution facilities for Amazon, it is dragging its feet on its legal obligations to approve more housing, resulting in years of delay and millions in wasted dollars. But thanks in part to YIMBY Law, 719 new homes could be finally coming to the city. Keystone is a development corporation started in 1979 that now works in seven states and five countries. In 2007, it bought a 95-

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Op-Ed: Seattle's Convention Center Should Be a Public Commons, Not an Underused Corporate Plaything

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.31. affordable, condo, construction, density, downtown, income, project, rent, urban, walk

The convention center is doing its job. The question is whether that's the right job.[image: Op-Ed: Seattle's Convention Center Should Be a Public Commons, Not an Underused Corporate Plaything] During the pandemic, in early 2021, my wife and I bought a condo in First Hill near the Seattle Convention Center. People were leaving the city for the outskirts, so we figured we'd go the opposite direction. That’s why we moved from sleepy Queen Anne to the geographic center of Seattle. We bought because our rent more than doubled in 10 years but our incomes didn't. We bought downtown because bus sched

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Colorado’s legislature is preparing to jump start nuclear power. Green advocates want to pull the plug.

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.41. affordable, construction, development, growth, house, income, project, rent, supply, walk

[image: A person walks a yellow dog on a leash along a city sidewalk near a grassy lot, with red brick and white modern buildings in the background.] A major effort to smooth the way for a return to nuclear-generated power in Colorado gets a first hearing Thursday in a legislative committee, as boosters of the out-of-favor technology claim growing energy demands and better design prove the time is right for a revival. The state’s longstanding coalition of nonprofit groups that advocate for environmental and economic justice, meanwhile, vow a united front against the nuclear-friendly effort, an

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Wednesday’s Headlines Say: Less Parking Equals Lower Rents

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.97. construction, housing, parking, parking garage, project, rent, transportation, urban

- Cities that have ended parking mandates, such as Austin and Minneapolis, have seen construction booms that brought down rents, because facilities like underground parking can cost up to $100,000 per space. The next step is to start charging a fair market rate for valuable curb space, as Donald Shoup suggested decades ago. (Governing) - Congress would have to slash all surface transportation spending in half — both roads and transit — to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent without a new source of revenue, according to an Eno Center for Transportation report. - A bipartisan bill would streamli

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