Category: Uncategorized
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Open Letter Supporting Development Bonus Program
The following was sent to Principal Planner Ambika Adhikari and Community Development Manager Ryan Levesque, with city council and council staff copied, in response to the proposal in this presentation. Tempe YIMBY is highly supportive of this proposal, which would allow developers to trade adding some affordable units to their projects in exchange for height…
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Tempe YIMBY Statement on General Plan 2050 Passage
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 25th, 2023 Tempe, AZ — Tempe City Council voted unanimously last night to send General Plan 2050 to voters for approval next March. Arizona cities are required to update their general plans every ten years. Tempe YIMBY (“Yes In My Backyard”) worked to bring out an unprecedented number of typically underrepresented…
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Newsletter July 26, 2022
July 26, 2022 Hello Neighbors, It has been 53~ weeks since we published our last weekly email, so we’ve learned our lesson and will not promise how frequently these emails will be. Our hope for the newsletter, like our hope for the new Tempe Streetcar, is that we can decrease the time between arrivals and…
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Weekly Update – August 8th, 2021
Sunday August 8th, 2021 Strap in neighbors, this is a long one. As the first Tempe YIMBY newsletter, written during the precipice of an eviction crisis and multiple major federal and city initiatives, we have an unusually large amount to cover this week. Some of it will spill over in to next week, but here…
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The Tempe Maker District
This is an older post from 2019. If you enjoy our news and commentary on Tempe, we hope you’ll subscribe to our newsletter.
