YIMBY News for 6/30

[Eric Budd]

Carbon Valley boom: Dacono, Frederick and Firestone face increased growth pressures

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.34. affordable, construction, cost of housing, development, downtown, growth, house, housing, income, infill, land-use, mobility, project, rent, supply, transportation, urban

With pressure coming at the Carbon Valley area from the west and south, it’s no wonder that the communities of Dacono, Firestone and Frederick are big winners in the race for infill and a larger tax base. All three communities are swelling with residential, commercial and/or industrial projects up and down a six-mile stretch of Interstate 25 from Colo. 52 to Colo. 66. Originally home to a vast coal-mining community, with some mines lasting until as late as 1947, these once tiny dots on the map are growing up — significantly — as growth from Boulder and Longmont stretches east and Denver pushes

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How Colorado homeowners are using data as a new line of defense against wildfires

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 35.31. construction, density, development, homeowner, house, housing, project, rent, urban, walk

[image: Text "NEW LINE OF DEFENSE" with smoke behind it] Story first appeared in: *HIGHLANDS RANCH —* Twenty years ago, when the kids were grown and they were downsizing, Jim and Bernie Remley bought this comfortable suburban ranch-style home with picturesque, north-facing views off the back deck to Longs Peak and beyond. Open space stretches for acres past their back fence, where horse trails wind around grassy fields that usually go brown by July, along with lots of highly flammable shrubs called rabbitbrush. Jim says they’ve seen five fires in these adjacent fields, none of them big, with t

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Controversy swirls around proposed Iris Avenue improvements in Boulder

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.63. bike lane, house, mobility, project, rent, transportation, vision zero, walk

Community debate has intensified over a project proponents say could improve safety on one of Boulder’s busiest streets. The City Council on Thursday discussed the Iris Avenue Transportation Improvements project, which will aim to make the stretch of Iris Avenue from Broadway to 28th Street safer, better connected to surrounding areas, and more bike- and pedestrian-friendly. Some of the proposed changes could reduce the number of traffic lanes on the roadway, which can help control traffic speed and also make crashes less likely. Iris Avenue is a major arterial street that sees a heavy volume

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Seattle Launches Next Phase of Be’er Sheva Park Renovations

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.97. apartment, gentrification, growth, house, project, rent, urban, walk, zone

On a warm Sunday afternoon in June, Be’er Sheva Park hums with activity. Notes of R&B float out of the speaker system, while savory aromas waft out of the grills by the waterfront. Kids splash in Lake Washington as their parents do yoga in the grass. But it wasn’t always like this. Sally Li, a longtime Rainier Beach resident who launched the advocacy group Link2Lake in 2016 to fight for a revitalized Be’er Sheva, recalls that the park had deteriorated since she played there as a kid in the 1990s. Overgrown foliage obstructed the shoreline, blocking the view of the park from Henderson Street, t

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