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.

They also link to a good page from San Francisco’s Livable City about reforming parking, including this nice chart of old and new thinking:

Old	New
Parking is a social good	Parking is not an entitlement
More parking is always better	Often, less is better
Parking demand is fixed	parking demand is elastic
Governments should establish minimum parking requirements	Government should establish maximum parking ratios
Parking costs should be bundled into the cost of housing, goods, and services	Parking costs should be unbundled
Parking is a burden to government, competing with other priorities for resources	Parking is a source of revenue for government, and can fund other city priorities
Parking should be priced to encourage full utilization	Parking should be priced so as to create some available spaces at most times.
Use time limits to increase parking availability and turnover	Use pricing to increase parking availability and turnover