Posts tagged Parking
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Graham proposes performance parking expansion
Jim Graham just announced a new bill to expand the Columbia Heights performance parking pilot to the other neighborhoods in Ward 1, with input from ANCs. The bill will also expand the recently-announced Mount Pleasant visitor parking pass program to the rest of the ward. The Mount Pleasant program, with day passes for sale to employees and business owners, is a big improvement over… Keep reading…
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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…
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Transportation across the nation: from fantasy to reality
Boston’s big blank Boylston wall: The Globe’s Alex Beam criticizes Boston’s new Mandarin Oriental, whose long, flat facade lacks cafes or stores and (at least in Beam’s opinion) looms too darkly over the street. Keep reading…
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What should we call the “parking” area?
The original “L’Enfant” streets of Washington, DC were extremely wide. For example, East Capitol is 160 feet wide, but the actual paved roadway is only 50 feet. In 1870, leaders realized that the city didn’t need the huge avenues of the original plan, and passed the “Parking Act”. According to HPO’s Capitol Hill Historic District brochure,… Keep reading…
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DDOT anti-curb cut regulation important but needs flexibility
DDOT has proposed new regulations to limit curb cuts. As we’ve discussed before, garage entrances that face the street and cut across sidewalks have a profoundly damaging effect on walkable urbanism. They make the street feel much more vehicle-centric, the cars crossing the sidewalk add opportunities for crashes, and by taking away on-street parking, they widen the street,… Keep reading…
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Performance parking solved Redwood City’s parking problems
Redwood City, California was expecting big parking problems when it started revitalizing its downtown recently. The revitalization was expected to add a lot of parking demand, especially in the evening. Fox Theater, Little Fox Theater and Century Theaters formed the nexus of a burgeoning entertainment district, billed to be the “Entertainment Capital of… Keep reading…
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Friendship residents pushing excessive parking on new development
The developer of a new residential building on Wisconsin Avenue in Friendship Heights may seek a zoning variance to build more parking than they’d originally planned. Why? Because some nearby residents are insisting that the project build more parking, even though Roadside, the developers, don’t think it’s necessary. Keep reading…
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Marc: no need to parc
I was planning to write a bunch of thoughts about Marc Fisher’s tantalizing-sounding “Don’t Build Parking, And They’ll Come” article when it came out today. But he says everything I would have, so just go read it. Fisher interviews Harriet Tregoning, who cites the many underutilized garages in new development including at the new Harris Teeter,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Mo’ train money, mo’ problems edition
Federal bread crumbs for a third VRE track: Virginia will spend $13 million to add a third track for VRE trains south of Fredericksburg to reduce delays from freight trains. In a big change for the feds, they are contributing; previously rail projects got no federal money. But they’re only kicking in $2 million of the $13 million total, as part of a mere $30 million for rail across… Keep reading…
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More fun with graphs
Continuing the discussion of Washingtonian transit exceptionalism from here and here, commenter SamZ posted this graph comparing the amount of non-car commuting in each region between the “transit zone” (within a half mile of transit) to the rest of the region. Keep reading…