Parking
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Ventura County’s New Parking Standards: A Guide for Los Angeles?
One of the major impediments to really reforming transportation in Los Angeles is that everytime a new development goes in, the city's parking requirements force developers to put in more than one parking space per unit...even if the development is "Transit Oriented" such as the wasted opportunity at Solair in Mid-Wilshire. Unfortunately, changing the parking requirements for development isn't really on the map. Even when city officials talk about "Complete Streets," it still isn't ready to mess with people's God-Given right to free or low cost parking.
January 8, 2010
Car Culture Entitlement Runs Rampant In Film Industry Rag
I don't write too often about the film industry or celebrity business here because the lives of L.A.'s celebrities seems to be in a different universe than the one most Angelenos live in. When there's something exciting or different going on, such as the "Rebel Without a Car" production of "At What Price," we certainly take notice. But a story forwarded me today is so dripping with Car Culture outrage, it was just too good to ignore.
December 16, 2009
The Climate Pitfalls of Denmarkâs Electric Car Parking Perk
(Charles Komanoff is a frequent contributor to NYC Streetsblog on energy policy, carbon taxes and transportation reform. For a complete bio, click here.)
December 4, 2009
Are You Paying Attention City Hall?: Chicago Ripped Off in Parking Privatization
City parking meters are a gold mine, and in Chicago, Morgan Stanley is rolling in parking riches. Secret company documents leaked to reporters show the company will rake in a 70 percent profit margin this year from its $1.15 billion, 75-year lease of Chicago’s parking meters. This profit is on top of the millions Morgan … Continued
November 20, 2009
Best Practices: Bay Area Developers Ditch Parking for More Units
And who should they hang for granting variances permitting
higher than 2:1 ratios, as happened last week when a two-unit home at
2626 Larkin Street in Russian Hill received permission from the San
Francisco Planning Commission to build five parking spaces, one with a
parking stacker for additional cars?
November 11, 2009
Citizen Journalism: USC Student Reveals Flaws in Citys Street Cleaning and Parking Enforcement
Clarence Eckerson Jr., the mad genius behind Streetfilms, believes that the next frontier of activist journalism isn't going to be written blogs but video blogs. Sometimes, when I look at the performance of your average Streetfilm compared to the hits one of my best researched and most popular stories, it's hard to argue with him.
November 5, 2009
Bad News for the Mayor: Money to Privatize Infrastructure Drying up in Recession
It's been six months, to the day, since we last checked in on the Mayor's desire to privatize the city's parking meters and publicly owned parking garages. Under the Mayor's draft plan, the city would get an as of yet undisclosed amount of money to turn over the money generated by its parking assets.
October 29, 2009
Gov. Supplies Teeth, but No Eyes, to Cash Out Parking Requirement
Supporters of cash-out-parking, the state law that requires employers of more than fifty people that offer free parking to employees to provide an equal benefit to those that don't commute via automobile, were closely watching two pieces of legislation this session. The legislation was to fill two major holes in the state mandate, and while both passed both houses of the legislature, the Governor only signed one of them into law.
October 27, 2009
CA Poised to Reform Auto-Centric Level of Service Environmental Rules
California administrative rulemakers recently moved a step closer to reforming the section of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that has compelled cities to focus undue attention on the age-old Automobile Level of Service (LOS) threshold for impacts of new projects and has led to the construction of excess off-street parking.
October 26, 2009
Eyes on the Street: As City Changes Parking Meters, What Are You Seeing?
While taking my cat to the pet store earlier today, I noticed that at some point in the past month the automobile parking signs on Beverly Boulevard had changed. It used to be that cars could park for two hours at metered spaces, the meters expired at 6:00 P.M. and there were no Sunday parking hours. Given that I've never parked at the new metered areas, that extend from La Brea all the way to LA Cienega; I decided to check with some local businesses to see what changes they noticed since the signs have went up.
October 23, 2009