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More Parking, Fewer Units Could Be Mar Vista Council Prescription for Venice Blvd Housing Project
Tomorrow night, the Mar Vista Community Council will hear from the public about a proposed mixed-use housing project slated for 12444 Venice Boulevard.
August 8, 2016
Eyes on the Street: Metro Expo Line 2 Has Parking Available
Someone get the word out to all those eager Metro Expo Line riders that the L.A. Times, Los Angeles Magazine and KTLA5 were so concerned about! Get the word out to Pacific Palisades! Lo and behold, it turns out that there is actually plenty of car parking available along the newly-opened Metro Expo Line phase 2.
June 8, 2016
L.A. Moves Toward Returning Parking Meter Revenue To Neighborhoods
Parking expert Donald Shoup has long asserted that one cornerstone of smart parking policy is to return parking meter revenue to the neighborhoods where the revenue is generated. When parking meters feed an anonymous city general fund, as much of the city of L.A.'s meter revenue does, then parking meters are perceived as burden to communities. When local meter revenue goes to fund local improvements, then neighborhoods tend to welcome the meters.
April 13, 2016
Metro Committee Approves All-Paid Parking For 3 New Expo Stations
Yesterday, Metro's Planning and Programming Committee approved the initial phase of the agency's new Parking Management Pilot Program. The program is anticipated to begin with three new Expo station parking lots in May: Sepulveda, Bundy, and 17th Street.
March 17, 2016
Cartoon Tuesday: Joe’s Parking and Vision Zero Comics
It's a bit of shameless self-promotion, but I wanted to share of pair of comics pages that I drew. These comment on issues that many Streetsblog L.A. readers care about: parking and Vision Zero. I think that parking, of all the issues that dramatically affect cities, is highly misunderstood, and I wanted to see if I could use a fun visual medium to begin to scratch the surface of the insights I've learned from parking expert Donald Shoup.
February 16, 2016
Metro Proposes Pilot For All-Paid Parking At Nine Stations
The Metro board will hear a promising proposal [PDF] that increases paid parking at nine stations on three Metro rail lines. According to The Source, the proposal will be presented to the Metro board this month, voted on in March, and go into effect in May if approved.
February 10, 2016
Take Metro’s Parking Survey, Keep Up With Metro’s Parking Master Plan
Metro's The Source announced an online survey in which the agency is soliciting input on its station parking. Take the survey here - participants are eligible to win a monthly transit pass. Metro's survey is one of the first steps in Metro's Supportive Transit Parking Program (STPP) Master Plan.
January 4, 2016
Councilmember Bonin Introduces Seven Parking Reform Motions
Today, Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin introduced seven council motions [PDF] that would reform parking. The motions are wide-ranging: from diverting parking meter revenue back into neighborhoods where it is generated, to tiering parking ticket fines, to expanding dynamic pricing via Express Park.
December 8, 2015
Eyes On the Street: Cars Parking On Sidewalks
The latest reports show that L.A. County has 18.6 million parking spaces, a whopping 14 percent of developed land. But apparently drivers want even more. It may be just anecdotal in my neighborhood - which is Koreatown near East Hollywood - but it seems like I am seeing more and more cars parking on sidewalks and curbs.
December 2, 2015
18.6 Million Spaces and Still Rising: Study Puts L.A. Parking in Perspective
There is a fascinating new L.A. County parking study making the rounds. Metro's The Source summarizes it stating, "Look around and there’s an awful lot of space devoted to parking and a lot of it is under-used a lot of the time." Curbed incorporates GIFs showing the inexorable growth of L.A. parking, and leads with the statistic that parking constitutes 14 percent of incorporated L.A. land.
December 1, 2015