YIMBY News for 8/19

[Eric Budd]

‘Save the Corner’ Campaign Targets 92 Affordable Homes on Bainbridge Island

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 52.69. affordable, affordable housing, comprehensive plan, construction, density, development, downtown, growth, house, housing, income, live-work, mixed-use, parking, planning commission, project, public hearing, rent, urban, zoning

A debate over a planned affordable housing project on Bainbridge Island turned from a simmer to a boil this month. A new campaign titled “Save the Corner” seeks to derail the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) from moving forward with plans to build 92 subsidized units on a parcel of city-owned land near the state ferry terminal. Despite an island-wide need for more affordable housing, a group of Bainbridge Island residents contend that the prime site across the street from the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art is too valuable to use for that purpose. The City of Bainbridge Island has been work

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Join The Urbanist and Seattle OPCD for Madison Valley Walking Tour

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.38. affordable, affordable housing, comprehensive plan, density, development, downtown, growth, housing, housing price, mixed-use, parking, urban, walk, zoning

The Urbanist has invited Seattle’s Office of Planning and City Development (OPCD) to lead a tour and presentation around the proposed zoning changes (see below) in Madison Valley. There will be opportunities to ask questions, both about the specific changes in Madison Valley, as well as more broadly, the growth strategy proposed by OPCD. This is your chance to hear about Seattle’s growth plan directly from the experts, and to see the area set to become the Madison Valley Neighborhood Center. The proposed new Madison Valley Neighborhood Center includes Midrise zoning along E Madison Street. (Ci

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A Mayor’s Marathon Day: From Storytime to Public Safety

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.55. apartment, construction, development, growth, housing, housing and urban development, project, rent, urban

Marion probably wasn’t counting on briefing the mayor, but he was ready. He’d taken careful notes, highlighting and underscoring key words. At the end of a summer science camp, the 8-year-old was ready to share his findings about how to help astronauts sleep better in space and Andrew Ginther, the mayor of Columbus, Ohio, leaned down to listen attentively to Marion’s suggestions about sleeping bags in space. The city helped fund the summer program. Ginther thanks the parents in attendance for their support and stops to talk with Nathan Harris, who’d participated in the camp during its inaugura

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Xcel Energy’s building boom, search for profits may send Colorado electricity bills soaring

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.98. affordable, growth, house, project, rent, supply, transportation

Xcel Energy customers are facing the risk of their electricity rates doubling or even tripling as the company launches an unprecedented spending plan to build new generation and transmission and feed power-hungry data centers. The company, the state’s largest electricity provider with 1.6 million customers, is set to invest $22.3 billion in Colorado by 2032. That is more than in any of the seven other states in which it operates. The investments will raise its electric assets in the state, the so-called rate base upon which rates are set, from $8 billion in 2021 to $36 billion in 2029 and more

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Longmont affordable housing community waitlist will open Sept. 8

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.67. affordable, affordable housing, construction, house, housing, housing authority, income, project, rent

The first waitlist for a new 75-unit affordable housing community under construction in Longmont will open Sept. 8. Ascent at Hover Crossing, at 2225 18th Ave., is being developed through a partnership between the Longmont Housing Authority and Pennrose for households earning up to 80% of the area median income, according to a news release. Applications to live at Ascent will be managed through two waitlists — one for 18 project-based voucher homes and one for low-income housing tax credit homes. The first-come, first-served online waitlist for project-based vouchers will close Sept. 22. Proje

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The Road That Killed Legend Jenkins Was Working Exactly as Designed

Strong Towns

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.95. apartment, development, hud, parking, rent, walk

*West Hudson Boulevard, where seven-year-old Legend Jenkins was killed.* *On May 27, 2025, two brothers in Gastonia, North Carolina, asked their dad if they could walk to the neighborhood Food Lion and Subway.* It was less than ten minutes from their apartment. Their dad hesitated. He and his wife are protective parents. But he agreed, on the condition that the boys stay on the phone with him the whole way. They made it to the store and back toward home without incident, until they reached West Hudson Boulevard. Legend Jenkins, seven years old, stepped off the median into the road and was stru

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