Posts tagged Parking Minimums

  • Zoning Commission supports parking reform!

    The District of Columbia is taking its rightful place as a leader in progressive parking policy. The Zoning Commission last night approved agreed with most of the Office of Planning’s recommendations to reduce minimum off-street parking requirements, implement targeted maximums, provide car-sharing spaces in large garages, and require bicycle parking and shower facilities. Last…  Keep reading…

  • Let’s create a scorecard

    I’m in the process of interviewing candidates for DC Council at-large. I plan to make a scorecard comparing candidates’ positions on various key issues.   Keep reading…

  • Afternoon links: great streets aren’t overrun with parking

    Parking minimums could kill SE project: A proposed building at 801 Virginia Ave will be offices instead of condos; unfortunately, current parking minimums are higher for offices, groundwater makes digging more parking levels too costly, and without a variance, Infosnack points out we’ll just be stuck with an empty lot. DCist agrees with parking reform: Removing parking minimums…  Keep reading…

  • Breakfast links: Paved paradise edition

    AP covers parking minimums: This Associated Press article summarizes the debate over relaxing parking minimums. The article quotes Jeff Speck, who testified in favor of relaxing minumums, and Capitol Hill ANC Commissioner Ken Jarboe, who testified against. It also gives an example of a historic Milwaukee building which burned down and couldn’t redevelop until the city…  Keep reading…

  • “Affordable housing for cars”

    I should be finishing packing, but I just noticed that Ken Archer’s op-ed in this week’s Current is online. Archer, a Georgetown resident who told the parking zoning hearing that he and his wife would be bringing their upcoming baby home on the D3 bus, rebuts many arguments made against reducing or eliminating parking minimums.  Keep reading…

  • Floreen floats parking tax proposal

    Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Floreen has proposed taxing business parking spaces in the county, reports the Gazette. The proposal would charge $250 per space per year, but give discounts to businesses if they make employees pay market rate for their parking, provide mass transit benefits, or subsidize parking for carpools.  Keep reading…

  • Zoning Commission delays parking discussion

    With many items on the agenda for this month, the Zoning Commission has delayed discussion of the proposed parking regulations until its October meeting. At least I’m pretty sure it has—after mentioning that “proposed actions”, of which the parking issue is one, will come last, Chairman Hood said that the Commission would “continue” its…  Keep reading…

  • What’s happening this week

    The District is getting back into full swing after the quiet of August. Lots going on this week: here’s a small sampling.  Keep reading…

  • Parking minimums irrelevant to Georgetown waterfront

    At the Zoning Commission hearing on parking minimums a month ago, opponents of parking reform argued that removing minimums would cause widespread chaos. Barbara Zartman, of the Committee of 100, used her neighborhood of Georgetown as an example of a neighborhood built without minimums. She was trying to argue that Georgetown’s traffic and parking difficulties were a consequence…  Keep reading…

  • The San Francisco way: curb cuts

    San Francisco’s streets are filled with curb cuts for individual houses, sometimes to an absurd level. Each curb cut takes away a parking space (or, in the best case, about two-thirds of one) to create one off-street space, and along the way makes the street and the houses less inviting, less walkable, and less attractive. Here are some more examples:…  Keep reading…

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