Posts Tagged ‘affordable housing’
Kevin Hotaling Hoping Third Time’s the Charm
This is the seventh in a series of candidate profiles written by students in Instructor Jeff Browne’s CU News Corps course at CU-Boulder. Gloria Dickie is a master's of environmental journalism student. Originally from Ontario, Canada, she studied [...]
Ed Byrne, Land Use Attorney and Densification Proponent
This is the sixth in a series of candidate profiles written by students in Instructor Jeff Browne’s CU News Corps course at CU-Boulder. Lars Gesing is a graduate student from Hamburg, Germany, where he worked for several print and online [...]
The First PLAN-Boulder Council Candidate Forum of 2013
PLAN-Boulder County forum audience (photos by Zane Selvans) Friday, September 6th saw the first of PLAN-Boulder County's City Council Candidate Fora for 2013. The moderator was PBC board member Jeff McWhirter. The candidates on hand were [...]
Violet Crossing to Add Nearly 100 Rental Units
At a PLAN-Boulder County forum on Friday, June 28, Terry Palmos, Vice President of Palmos Development Company, described the “Violet Crossing” project that his company will soon start building on four and a half acres in north Boulder. [...]
Affordable Housing Buyers Beware
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. We learned that lesson the hard way, when we tried to sell our permanently affordable home. Since June of 2011, for more than a year now, we’ve been embroiled in legal action against the City [...]
The 1175 Lee Hill Homeless Housing Controversy: Reflections on a Public Hearing
On March 20th, the Boulder City Council held a public hearing on the controversial 1175 Lee Hill chronically homeless housing project, filling council chambers and an overflow room. Twenty-three members of the North Boulder Alliance provided [...]
The Atlantic Cities | The Most and Least Affordable Housing in America
"The authors specifically call out new construction that is significantly controlled by comprehensive plans or through more restrictive land use regulations “referred to as ‘compact development,’ ‘urban consolidation,’ ‘growth [...]
Boulder County Business Report | High-end home inventory up for debate
"Scott Remmert of the Remmert Group of Colorado Landmark Realtors said it's frustrating to not have more homes to show prospective buyers, while James Simpson, with Fuller Sotheby's International Realty, said it can work in a Realtor's favor. 'A [...]
Profile: Tales of In-commuters
The 52,850 people who commute into Boulder every day could fill the equivalent of almost five Coors Events Centers. Reference to these commuters is often made in Boulder's discussions about such issues as housing, transportation, jobs, parking, [...]
RTD Selects Developer for Boulder Site
The Regional Transportation District chose two firms to develop the first transit-oriented project in Boulder’s Transit Village. Pedersen Development Company and Adolfson & Peterson Construction Company filed with the City of Boulder a concept [...]
