Posts tagged Parking Minimums
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DC allows community uses, keeps parking minimums for closed schools
After I found about about DDOT’s emergency rules on bus loading, I started monitoring the DC Register. This week’s includes emergency zoning rules on what uses are allowed in the buildings that contained the recently-closed schools: Keep reading…
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New parking recommendations released
Office of Planning has released an updated version of their recommended new zoning regulations for parking. Keep reading…
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Curses! Foiled again… by zoning!
Here’s a great example of why we need to get rid of parking minimums. The owner of a former KFC at 15th and Pennsylvania SE (a block from Potomac Ave Metro) wants to make the neighbors happy by building a two-story building over the entire lot instead of a (legal) four-story building on half the lot. Covering the whole lot is good, since it will create a continuous line of buildings… Keep reading…
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Finding the right buffer
As I wrote on Monday, DC Office of Planning is considering a “buffer zone rule” that would require parking in multi-unit apartment buildings if they are within 400 feet of a low- or moderate-density residential building. As I argued, that rule is too broad. Keep reading…
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Throwing the baby out with the 400-foot buffer
The draft parking zoning rules include a provision that multi-unit residential development still needs to construct 1 parking space per 3 units if it is within 400 feet of a low- or moderate-density residential zone (R-1 through R-5-B). Keep reading…
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Early draft of parking zoning rules reduces some minimums (but not enough)
Over five meetings of the Parking and Loading working group, citizens gave their input on how much DC’s zoning code should require parking lots or garages in new development, where parking can be located on a lot, how many trees parking lots need, what bike parking is mandatory, and more. And last week, the Office of Planning released a draft of the new rules which they’ve… Keep reading…
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Legalize Georgetown
I love DC’s rowhouse neighborhoods. I love the many buildings on a block with interesting colors and shapes. I love the neighborhood feel of the corner store. I love seeing people out walking their dogs, biking to work, or doing shopping. I’d like to preserve the neighborhoods that have this, and build new neighborhoods that have it too. Keep reading…
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Parking review part 2: But for spillover, we all agree
In my earlier parking post, I concluded with this key slide from the Nelson\Nygaard presentation that kicked off the zoning review process (at right). The minimums in the zoning code operate on the premise that since some people will drive and park, we need to provide parking. If we don’t, they’ll park on the street, interfering with residents. Therefore, we must require… Keep reading…
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NIMBYism strong on Upper Wisconsin
Calling it “giving up on Smart Growth,” Marc Fisher laments the death of a development proposal at the Tenleytown Metro, which would have replaced a small neighborhood library with higher density mixed-use and moved the library a few blocks away. The first time I went to Tenleytown, visiting friends who live there, we had to walk about 15 minutes to Connecticut Avenue… Keep reading…