Posts tagged San Francisco
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Breakfast links: Supply and demand edition
Parking parking everywhere and not a drop for bikes: Despite a city law mandating bike parking, there’s just not enough, leaving racks bursting at office buildings from Friendship Heights to the U.S. Senate, writes the City Paper. And as WashCycle found out, Metro won’t even return calls about renting bike lockers at New Carrollton. Meanwhile, Chicago is building… Keep reading…
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Dinner links: The many faces of government edition
Meet the bubble bus: WMATA released images of their new Metrobuses, slated for service in August. DCist has more. 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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Google announces “mixed-use” campus, may be just more sprawl
Google is headquartered in an artistically funky but still fairly ordinary office complex in Mountain View, California. Like every other office park for miles around, there are a few fairly low-rise office buildings surrounded with parking and atop more parking. There’s nothing but swamp, an amphitheatre (surrounded by lots of parking) and more office buildings for miles… Keep reading…
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SF moving forward with Central Subway
San Francisco just selected an alignment for the Central Subway, a tunnel for the new T-Third light rail line that will run up Fourth Street to Stockton, connecting the China Basin/ballpark/Caltrain area to downtown and Chinatown. Transbay Blog isn’t so sure this is worth the money and thinks there may be better ways. Keep reading…
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Ward 3 parking vision
The Ward 3 Vision community group, which is affiliated with the Coalition for Smarter Growth, has a page up about parking management in residential areas, including flyers and powerpoints about the issue. This is in response to the ongoing debate over visitor passes in Cleveland Park. Keep reading…
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Monday morning links
San Francisco is considering a bill to reform parking requirements, removing the requirements forcing developers to build parking in certain types of housing developments, “unbundling” parking so condo purchasers can choose whether to pay for a parking space or not, and allowing mechanical or valet parking to save space if the building wants it. Keep reading…
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Three Bay Area transit plans
As the car-dependent San Francisco Bay Area continues to gradually make itself more transit-friendly, the idea of building less car-dependent housing, even in less central areas, continues to attract at least some adherents. Here are three plans in varying stages of realism. Keep reading…