Comments on: Best Practices: Bay Area Developers Ditch Parking for More Units http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/11/11/best-practices-bay-area-developers-ditch-parking-for-more-units/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DJB http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/11/11/best-practices-bay-area-developers-ditch-parking-for-more-units/comment-page-1/#comment-48301 DJB Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:26:32 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=20271#comment-48301 The best thing to do is get rid of minimum off-street parking requirements. Developers know how much motor vehicle parking they need to build to sell their units. They don't need planners telling them to build any more "for the public good". We need to start moving away from the free street parking model and towards the model of paying to park on the street. That's the appropriate way to manage scarce street space in a dense area. As Shoup points out, returning the parking revenue to the neighborhood it's generated in can overcome some of the political backlash. It's outrageous that we care more about making sure that every car has a home than we care about making sure that every person has a home. The best thing to do is get rid of minimum off-street parking requirements. Developers know how much motor vehicle parking they need to build to sell their units. They don’t need planners telling them to build any more “for the public good”.

We need to start moving away from the free street parking model and towards the model of paying to park on the street. That’s the appropriate way to manage scarce street space in a dense area. As Shoup points out, returning the parking revenue to the neighborhood it’s generated in can overcome some of the political backlash.

It’s outrageous that we care more about making sure that every car has a home than we care about making sure that every person has a home.

]]> By: walker o http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/11/11/best-practices-bay-area-developers-ditch-parking-for-more-units/comment-page-1/#comment-48181 walker o Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:55:06 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=20271#comment-48181 I'm all for reducing the parking ratios in locations where there is no street parking for people to spill out onto or nearby neighborhoods for new residents to crowd with street parking. Lots of developers don't want to do parking because it is expensive and better to turn that into more housing units. It really really sucks when they do this and everyone still owns a car and parks around the block in front of the neighbors house making their lives lame. If this is done in neighborhoods with street parking nearby there must be some sort of way to limit the use of those street spots by the new tenants of teh underparked development. Without that restriction you all are just letting the developers make a buck. You need a lot of transit or lots of taxi cabs (aka CARS) to manage. Remember that. I’m all for reducing the parking ratios in locations where there is no street parking for people to spill out onto or nearby neighborhoods for new residents to crowd with street parking. Lots of developers don’t want to do parking because it is expensive and better to turn that into more housing units. It really really sucks when they do this and everyone still owns a car and parks around the block in front of the neighbors house making their lives lame.

If this is done in neighborhoods with street parking nearby there must be some sort of way to limit the use of those street spots by the new tenants of teh underparked development. Without that restriction you all are just letting the developers make a buck.

You need a lot of transit or lots of taxi cabs (aka CARS) to manage. Remember that.

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