Concord is one step closer to rezoning a fraction of its higher-income, predominantly white neighborhoods — a change that will enable development of 1,000 new lower-income, multifamily units in areas boasting access to schools, parks, jobs and transportation by 2031. The city has spent months exploring the feasibility of its Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) … Read more
A proposal to pave the way for denser housing types across what have long been traditional single-family suburban neighborhoods in Littleton has hit a hard roadblock, with the City Council voting to postpone consideration of the measure indefinitely. Tuesday night’s vote to set aside the proposed amendment to the city’s land use code was 6-1, … Read more
Living in Colorado, for many, means spending a lot of time worrying about how to make the rent or the mortgage — or whether they’ll ever be able to buy a home. Housing costs have been on a long and sometimes sharp climb throughout the state. In Colorado Springs, home prices have risen 119% since … Read more
Palizzi Farm lost a big battle at the beginning of the summer when a judge ruled a metropolitan district could run a stormwater pipe across the 95-year-old Brighton farm to support a planned housing development nearby. But tucked into the final page of Adams County District Judge Sarah Stout’s 41-page eminent domain ruling was an … Read more
Up to 2,600 new housing units planned for the Heather Lands in Vancouver will be sold at 60 per cent of market value, according to a joint announcement by the province, the city and the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. The 8.5-hectare parcel of land in question is located on Heather Street between West 33rd … Read more
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — His flip-flops obscured by shin-high hay, Jason Peasley stood in an empty field just west of town and gestured at a phantom community. “That’s where the fire station would’ve been,” he said, pointing to the base of a small hill. He turned around and nodded toward some barns, near the road that … Read more
New family housing is coming to Milpitas. Toll Brothers, a luxury home construction company, is building 43 townhomes and 13 ADUs — also known as in-law units or backyard homes — on a a 2.3-acre site at Tarob Court, about a mile and a half away from the Great Mall. The development will consist of eight … Read more
BERKELEY — A theater could be returning to downtown Berkeley after the City Council denied an appeal of the California Theater redevelopment project, clearing a hurdle for developers to reopen the century-old entertainment space with hundreds of new housing units. Gilbane Development Company plans to demolish most of the California Theatre on Kittredge Street, preserving the … Read more
The suite of landmark zoning and land-use reform laws passed by Colorado lawmakers this year should help alleviate the housing crisis, national experts say, while catapulting the Centennial State into the ranks of other housing pioneers. But those experts cautioned that the reforms seeded this winter and spring will take years to bear fruit. New … Read more
CONCORD — Transforming an abandoned military base into a massive $6 billion, mixed-use community is no simple task — and Concord has the $40 million bill to prove it. For nearly two decades, the city has attempted to revitalize the former Concord Naval Weapons Station into tens of thousands of homes and millions of square-feet … Read more
