Posts tagged Parking Minimums
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Parking countdown #3: The sky won’t fall
This is the eighth of ten daily posts about why the Zoning Commission should approve the Office of Planning recommendations on off-street parking, leading up to the hearing on Thursday, July 31 at 6:30 pm. Keep reading…
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Roll Call covers parking reform
Roll Call, one of Capitol Hill’s newspapers, ventured beyond the federal realm to cover DC’s parking reform proposals. The lede: Keep reading…
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Parking countdown #5: Minimums deter good projects
This is the sixth of ten daily posts about why the Zoning Commission should approve the Office of Planning recommendations on off-street parking, leading up to the hearing on Thursday, July 31 at 6:30 pm. Please attend and testify if you can, or submit comments to the zoning commission in this thread. Keep reading…
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Parking countdown #6: Parking minimums undermine neighborhood retail
This is the fifth of ten daily posts about why the Zoning Commission should approve the Office of Planning recommendations on off-street parking, leading up to the hearing on Thursday, July 31 at 6:30 pm. Please attend and testify if you can, or submit comments to the zoning commission in this thread. Keep reading…
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Parking countdown #7: On-street management solves “spillover”
This is the fourth of ten daily posts about why the Zoning Commission should approve the Office of Planning recommendations on off-street parking, leading up to the hearing on Thursday, July 31 at 6:30 pm. Please attend and testify if you can, or submit comments to the zoning commission in this thread. Keep reading…
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Parking countdown #8: Car sharing reduces parking demand
This is the third in a daily series about why the Zoning Commission should approve the Office of Planning recommendations on off-street parking. Keep reading…
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Auto-centric “imprinting” and our consumer products
Richard Layman pens a defense of parking reform in the usually anti-change themail@dcwatch. Explaining the anti-urban views of many city dwellers, he writes, “Most of us who live in the city came from other places where the car was dominant. So we don’t understand that we are imprinted with a particular paradigm, and that this paradigm is inappropriate for the city.”… Keep reading…
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Parking countdown #9: Removing minimums is proven elsewhere
This is the second in a daily series about why the Zoning Commission should approve the Office of Planning recommendations on off-street parking. Keep reading…
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Parking countdown #10: Row houses aren’t obsolete after all
July 31 is a very important hearing. The Zoning Commission will be hearing public comment about DC’s proposed off-street parking reforms. As I’ve written before, these are vital changes to modernize our 1958 zoning code which required each new development to build large amounts of parking, pushing a suburban pattern of development over the existing historic urban… Keep reading…
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Adams Morgan ANC narrowly endorses less parking at Hilton
The Hilton Hotel is planning an as-of-right expansion to add a condominium tower in their east courtyard. Residents are concerned about loading (the loading docks are right on 19th Street, very close to homes, and with very little space for trucks to turn around), and the possible loss to the community of the pool (which will probably be moved and may become less public) and grounds… Keep reading…