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One way to reduce parking costs for property owners—give residents a free EV - Charged EVs
One way to reduce parking costs for property owners—give residents a free EV - Charged EVs
In our car-obsessed society, providing parking is a major expense for business and property owners. The Delmanor Aurora retirement home near Toronto has found an innovative way to reduce the number of parking spaces it provides to residents, while still allowing them to drive as much as they need to. In collaboration with EV rideshare... Read more »
ParkingReformNetwork·chargedevs.com·
One way to reduce parking costs for property owners—give residents a free EV - Charged EVs
Comprehensive Parking Supply, Cost and Pricing Analysis
Comprehensive Parking Supply, Cost and Pricing Analysis
Parking facilities are a critical part of a transportation system: vehicles are typically parked about 23 hours per day and require parking at every destination. These facilities impose various economic, social and environmental costs. This report describes how to estimate the number of parking spaces that exist in an area, their total costs, and optimal pricing. This information is important for many policy and planning decisions. Recent surveys indicate that typical North American communities have three to eight parking spaces per vehicle, including many seldom-used spaces. Considering land, construction and operating expenses, their total annualized costs per space typically range from about $600 for a basic surface lot on inexpensive land to more than $5,000 for high-amenity structured parking. Overall, their costs are estimated to average about $1,000 annually per space or $5,000 per vehicle-year, totaling more than a trillion dollars per year in the U.S. For every dollar a motorist spends on their vehicle somebody typically spends about a dollar on parking for its use. Most parking costs are external, resulting in higher taxes, rents and retail prices, plus significant environmental damages. These external costs are economically inefficient and unfair since they increase total parking and traffic costs, and force households that drive less than average to cross-subsidize higher-mileage motorists. More efficient parking management can provide larger savings and benefits than previously recognized.
ParkingReformNetwork·vtpi.org·
Comprehensive Parking Supply, Cost and Pricing Analysis
Parking Management: Comprehensive Implementation Guide
Parking Management: Comprehensive Implementation Guide
Parking management refers to various policies and programs that result in more efficient use of parking resources. This guide describes and evaluates more than two-dozen such strategies. It investigates problems with current parking planning practices, discusses the costs of parking facilities and the savings that can result from improved management, describes specific parking management strategies and how they can be implemented, discusses parking management planning and evaluation, and describes how to develop the optimal parking management program in a particular situation. Cost-effective parking management programs can usually reduce parking requirements by 20-40% compared with conventional planning requirements, providing many economic, social and environmental benefits.
ParkingReformNetwork·vtpi.org·
Parking Management: Comprehensive Implementation Guide
Stop Giving Away Valuable Public Assets! A Fiduciary Obligation for Road and Parking Pricing
Stop Giving Away Valuable Public Assets! A Fiduciary Obligation for Road and Parking Pricing
Cities significantly underprice their roads and parking facilities, forcing local taxpayers to subsidize out-of-town motorists. Municipal officials have an obligation to better manage these valuable public resources.
ParkingReformNetwork·planetizen.com·
Stop Giving Away Valuable Public Assets! A Fiduciary Obligation for Road and Parking Pricing
Reforming Municipal Parking Policies to Align With Strategic Community Goals
Reforming Municipal Parking Policies to Align With Strategic Community Goals
The City of Victoria is currently engaged in a parking policy review which proposes reducing some off-street parking requirements (http://victoria.ca/zoningparking). These changes are good, but modest. This short report identifies much bolder reforms that would better align parking policies with other community goals. Although written for Victoria, the analysis and recommendations are appropriate for most municipalities.
ParkingReformNetwork·vtpi.org·
Reforming Municipal Parking Policies to Align With Strategic Community Goals
Chris McCahill on Twitter
Chris McCahill on Twitter
“Folks in the #parking reform space often talk about construction costs in absolute terms ($60k per space). This graphic from @MadWIParking translates that number into monthly debt service. Revenues cover around $212 per month, leaving a $240 public subsidy for every stall.”
ParkingReformNetwork·twitter.com·
Chris McCahill on Twitter
Q&A: The Costs of Parking Mandates in Booming Austin
Q&A: The Costs of Parking Mandates in Booming Austin
Housing reformers from all over the country are currently in Portland, Oregon, for YIMBYtown, a national conference about housing abundance and affordability. Last week I was lucky to catch up with one of the panelists, Leah Bojo. Bojo worked as the policy director for Chris Riley, a city councilor in Austin. In that time the […]
ParkingReformNetwork·sightline.org·
Q&A: The Costs of Parking Mandates in Booming Austin