Testimony: Chicago cuts parking minimums near transit to boost housing affordability, availability
The Chicago City Council will allow residential developments near public transit to build without imposing parking space minimums, offering a major boost for affordability and the city’s housing supply.
Hamtramck discontinues its parking meters, faces $200,000 revenue shortfall
The city of Hamtramck has discontinued its parking meters after persistent public complaints. However, the city now faces a challenge to replace approximately $200,000 in lost annual revenue from the meters.
Montreal wants to build dense, walkable neighbourhoods. Can it deliver?
Montreal is planning dense, walkable neighbourhoods to tackle the housing and climate crises, but the plans face delays, rising costs and resistance. Major projects like Bridge-Bonaventure aim to transform the city, but red tape and financing stand in the way.
Bridgeport zoners turn back effort to restore residential parking standards
BRIDGEPORT — In a close 5-4 vote, members of the Zoning Commission rejected an effort to restore residential parking space requirements in Bridgeport. The board at its meeting Monday, June 30, turned down a proposal to reinstitute on-site parking standards for future housing developments that were totally eliminated a handful of years ago. Critics of that prior regulation change maintain there is simply not enough public parking in some...
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[caption id="attachment_16462" align="alignleft" width="225"] Daniel Christiansen[/caption] Today's guest columnist is Daniel Christiansen. A few months ago I settled into a…
Bridgeport zoners turn back effort to restore residential parking standards
BRIDGEPORT — In a close 5-4 vote, members of the Zoning Commission rejected an effort to restore residential parking space requirements in Bridgeport. The board at its meeting Monday, June 30, turned down a proposal to reinstitute on-site parking standards for future housing developments that were totally eliminated a handful of years ago. Critics of that prior regulation change maintain there is simply not enough public parking in some...
It's hard to build homes people can afford in Colorado. A new study shows why. - The Colorado Sun
In the first comprehensive review of Colorado land use laws, the National Zoning Atlas found that you can build single-family homes almost anywhere. But apartments, condos and townhomes are widely prohibited.
Every so often when reading an obituary of someone, or an awards citation, you realise that you have internalised their work into your thinking without having read it directly. So it was with Donald Shoup, the California transport academic who spent his life working on the problem of urban parking, and who died in February.
A chorus of critics insist that building on undeveloped land is the only way out of the US housing crisis. But the environmental costs of unrestrained growth are overwhelming.
A propoal heading to Denver City Council would help lower rents and home prices in an era of high building material costs and exorbitant interest rates.