Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about parking

Residential Parking Reforms Should Benefit All of Minneapolis

By Brad Aaron | Jul 8, 2015 | No Comments

In June Streets.mn reported that Minneapolis might drop parking minimums for residential developments near transit stations. By doing so, the city would promote walkable development and reduce housing costs. However, City Council President Barb Johnson wants to exclude neighborhoods in north Minneapolis from the parking reforms. Writing at Streets.mn, affordable housing expert Kris Brogan says […]

Someone Finally Figured Out How to Fix Parking Forever: Blame Canada!

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 7, 2015 | No Comments

Car owners in Hayes Valley will not stand by as “their” parking spaces are usurped by safe streets measures and “foreign” car-share “corporations” from places like “Delaware” and “Canada.” That’s according a couple of bizarre anonymous flyers spotted recently around the neighborhood that appear to take aim at the arrival of on-street car-share parking spaces […]

Killing a Transit Project Isn’t Going to Fix Your City’s Parking Crunch

By Ben Fried | Jul 2, 2015 | No Comments

Yesterday Streetsblog USA ran a post from Michael Andersen about how Newark fixed the glut of parked cars on Mount Prospect Avenue, the first street in New Jersey to get a protected bike lane: Instead of letting people park in the bikeway, the city started charging for parking. With a price on parking, people stopped […]

Affordable Housing Awards from Cap-and-Trade Funds Announced

By Melanie Curry | Jun 24, 2015 | 4 Comments

On Monday, the California Strategic Growth Council announced its recommendations for the first round of funding under the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program. SGC staff recommended 28 projects, to be awarded a total of $122 million. The projects are split about evenly between Northern and Southern California. Most of the recommended projects are for […]

Milwaukee Could Pay Big Bucks for Downtown NBA Arena, and Its Parking

By Brad Aaron | Jun 18, 2015 | No Comments

Publicly-financed arenas for privately-owned sports franchises are usually a bad deal for taxpayers. And the proposal for a new Milwaukee Bucks facility looks like a humdinger. Patrick Small at Urban Milwaukee reports that city officials, including Mayor Tom Barrett, haven’t told residents exactly how much they could be on the hook for — though so […]

Fisherman’s Wharf Parking-Free Street Revamp Boosts Sales, Will Expand

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 15, 2015 | No Comments

Two years after the city gave Fisherman’s Wharf a people-friendly redesign on two blocks of Jefferson Street, business is booming. Despite merchants’ fears that removing all car parking on the blocks would hurt their sales, they now say it had the opposite effect. The second phase of the project, which will bring a similar treatment […]

The San Diego Leaders Who Sacrificed People for Parking

By Brad Aaron | Jun 10, 2015 | No Comments

Earlier this year a street safety plan for Hillcrest and other San Diego neighborhoods was derailed after NIMBYs complained about the loss of curbside parking. The plan was prompted to prevent incidents like the 2012 crash when a driver hit a mother and her 3-year-old daughter in a Hillcrest crosswalk at an intersection with a […]

San Francisco Reboots Program That Could Boost Transit and Livable Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 4, 2015 | No Comments

San Francisco agencies have re-introduced the Transportation Sustainability Program, a bureaucratic overhaul that could dramatically expedite improvements for walking, biking, and transit, while discouraging car parking in new developments. In developing the program, SF planners are also nearing completion of the nation’s first major study showing that dedicated car parking encourages driving. The TSP is […]

Where Parking Is Tight, People Find Solutions

By Melanie Curry | Jun 3, 2015 | 1 Comment

UCLA Professor, now Emeritus, Donald Shoup thinks about the ways people find to get around parking limitations—and some of the ramifications of their behavior—in the latest issue of Access magazine from the University of California. In Westwood Village near UCLA, for example, he finds that people park on driveway aprons, often blocking sidewalks on the […]

Phil Matier’s Shameless Bid to Drum Up Resentment About Parking

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 2, 2015 | No Comments

Phil Matier is apparently perturbed at the “rapid” pace at which SF plans to re-purpose less than 0.5 percent of its curbside parking spaces. In keeping with his habitual windshield perspective, Matier used both his SF Chronicle column and air time on KCBS radio today to spin a narrative about motorists getting “a giant middle […]

How Much of Your Rent Covers the Hidden Cost of Parking?

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 2, 2015 | No Comments

If you rent an apartment in a building with a garage, odds are you don’t get a bill every month that explains how much that parking costs you. But while the price of parking is generally bundled into the price of housing, you still pay for parking — and it’s expensive. The costs of land, […]

Donald Shoup Interview, Part 2: Pasadena, Ventura, Mexico City, A.B. 744

By Joe Linton | May 29, 2015 | No Comments

Donald Shoup, parking’s one and only rock star, is retiring from UCLA this year. Tomorrow, the college is sending him off with a fundraiser retirement dinner atop parking structure number 32. You can attend, and hobnob with Shoup himself, by donating to the Shoup Fellowship fund for future UCLA planning students. Below is part two […]

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