New Kalorama ANC member wants one-way streets for more parking

Is parking really such a problem in Kalorama Heights, a neighborhood of large single-family mansions? The new ANC Commissioner for ANC 2D01, the northern half of Sheridan-Kalorama, wants to make more streets one-way to provide more residential parking.

Two-way streets are better than one-way for many reasons I’ve gone into before. Are the residents of Kalorama, a low-density neighborhood, really that strapped for parking? It looks like most houses there are wide enough to fit two cars along the curb and usually have their own off-street spaces as well. Maybe they have ten cars like the future residents of the former Italian Embassy in Adams Morgan must have?

Maybe a lot of the families in Kalorama want four or five cars, one per parent and one for each child to take to school. But even though that’s a neighborhood often chosen by families moving from large suburban houses, it’s still a mere two miles from downtown, served by many buses, and simply not a place where everyone should have a car and store it on public property for free.