Posts tagged Cat:parking

  • Heritage will charge closer to market rate for parking

    The Heritage Foundation wants to build a large parking structure beneath new row houses on residentially-zoned land adjacent to their office building near Union Station. At their Board of Zoning Adjustment (BZA) hearing on April 9th and the ANC 6C meeting on April 10th, Heritage agreed to several changes which will improve this project.  The parking garage is now slightly…  Keep reading…

  • Can the Anacostia Playhouse escape from zoning hell?

    Some District leaders are discovering that there really is a serious cost to having an outdated zoning code. The Anacostia Playhouse might face up to 6 months of delays because of silly parking regulations, and there’s not much the DC Council can rightfully do about it. The City Paper reported last week that the playhouse, which expected to open in April, suddenly discovered…  Keep reading…

  • On the calendar: Parking! Walking! Bicycling! Controversy!

    Whether you care about parking, bicycling, walking, or all three, in DC, Maryland, or Virginia, there are some important events coming up, from a parking meeting tonight in Georgetown to a forum on upcounty Montgomery pedestrian safety to a bike rally in Richmond. Talk parking in Georgetown: Tonight (Wednesday, January 16) is a Georgetown community meeting about parking.  Keep reading…

  • Harriet Tregoning is pro-choice (on transportation)

    “I’m not anti-car,” said DC planning director Harriet Tregoning last night at a meeting of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. “I’m pro-choice.” Tregoning and Washington Post reporter Jonathan O’Connell were speaking to the group about development and the zoning update. Many members of the audience were incredulous…  Keep reading…

  • Bonus links: Parking extravaganza

    $80,000 a space for another DC USA?; Tenleytown Safeway too suburban; Three parking bills, one hearing; Free holiday meters?; Free transit for some Chicago shoppers; Potomac Yard station still just out of reach; A Green City but without green transportation.  Keep reading…

  • Breakfast links I: Park and ride

    No parking including city employees; Enforcing on the enforcers; Parking tickets aren’t taxes; Pay to valet; Krugman looks where Samuelson doesn’t; What’s really inefficient is freeway building; Baltimore testing smartcard; If you’re happy and you know it ride the train.  Keep reading…

  • On the calendar: Shoup!

    Donald Shoup, the “parking guru,” is coming to Alexandria and making a public presentation tomorrow. If you make it down to Alexandria for just one event this year, this is the one. In The High Cost of Free Parking, Shoup laid out the economic fallacies in underpricing parking, and popularized the concept of market-based performance parking which dedicates revenue…  Keep reading…

  • Montgomery needs transportation districts, not parking districts

    Last week, the Montgomery County Council held a hearing on the second leg of their two-part strategy to restore Ride-On bus service cuts. The first part was to raise parking fees in the Bethesda parking district, fees which only rose once in the last twenty years and haven’t kept up with inflation or Metro fares. Next, the Council must approve transferring money out of the parking…  Keep reading…

  • Olde Towne Gaithersburg: He who hesitated was lost

    During the now-defunct credit bubble, legacy walkable urban places in Montgomery County enjoyed renovation and investment unparalleled in decades.  Silver Spring received a brand new commercial development that catalyzed a better reputation and increased foot traffic. Investment in Bethesda accelerated beyond its already fast pace.  Wheaton got a renovated mall and new residential…  Keep reading…

  • DC 2010 budget would end Saturday free parking

    Back in November, Councilmember Jim Graham suggested raising parking meter rates to restore some cuts in important housing programs like HPAP, which helps people get mortgages to buy homes. Graham suggested raising $1/hour meters to $2, and 50¢ meters to 75¢. He also proposed ending DC’s policy of free parking on Saturdays.  Keep reading…

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