YIMBY News for 1/26

[Eric Budd]

UCHealth, AdventHealth plan adjacent hospitals in Broomfield

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.33. construction, development, growth, land-use, mixed-use, project, real estate, rent, walk

BROOMFIELD — Two large hospitals could be built within a stone’s throw from one another along a stretch of Baseline Road in Broomfield that’s already dense with health care facilities. UCHealth has submitted to Broomfield city planners a proposal for a new hospital on the northwest corner of the Baseline Road (Colorado Highway 7) and Interstate 25 interchange, while AdventHealth has submitted plans for a facility just across the street on the southwest corner of that interchange. Both sites are less than a mile from the Children’s Hospital Colorado North Campus and a number of other outpatient

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Sound Transit Board Abruptly Removes Key Committee Chair Ahead of Pivotal Year

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.53. construction, development, downtown, project, rent, transit-oriented, urban, walk

Claudia Balducci, the longest serving member of the Sound Transit board, was removed from her post as chair of the board’s System Expansion committee last week, just as the board prepares to fully reorient its system plan to address a $34 billion budget hole. Balducci, a King County Councilmember, had been leading that committee since 2018, but she will not even serve on the body tasked with making critical decisions about light rail extension projects going forward. The power to propose updates to committee assignments rests in the board chair — currently Snohomish County Executive Dave Somer

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Streets in Denver’s Highlands neighborhood tell a story about a Scottish-inspired dream

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.06. development, house, preservation, rent, urban, walk

The history of the Old West is everywhere on the streets of Denver. Take the origins of the peculiar street layout of a small section in the city’s Highlands neighborhood. Denver resident Larry Baker asked Colorado Public Radio to find out why the area doesn’t align with the rest of the city’s grid. “I always, when driving around the area, recognize that the roads were a little unusual there, but I didn’t realize until the other day, just looking on a map and seeing how in that small square, those roads were just completely … seemingly arbitrarily just laid out that way,” Baker said. [image: A

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