Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about parking

A Vote for Parking Minimums Is a Vote to Keep the Rent Too Damn High

By David Meyer | Dec 16, 2015 | No Comments

Jimmy McMillan may have retired from politics last week, but the rent is still too damn high and New York City’s mandatory parking minimums are a major reason why. That’s because parking costs a lot of money to build and takes up a lot of space. With city rules requiring parking in new construction, New […]

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18.6 Million Spaces and Still Rising: Study Puts L.A. Parking in Perspective

By Joe Linton | Dec 2, 2015 | No Comments

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 […]

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Variable-Priced L.A. Express Park Expands to Westwood

By Joe Linton | Nov 6, 2015 | No Comments

At a press event yesterday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Councilmember Paul Koretz celebrated the expansion of L.A. Express Park to Westwood. Westwood has long had a reputation for being a difficult area to park. Express Park should, over time, make finding a parking space there easier. This is good for number of […]

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Funds for San Diego “Park” Go Mostly to Free Parking for County Employees

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 5, 2015 | No Comments

Nobody’s going to give San Diego County an award for park planning — we hope! — on its “Waterfront Park project,” which is more accurately described as the “subsidized garage project.” Grinning county officials recently cut the ribbon on a $36 million parking garage that will be free for county employees. With 640 spaces, the […]

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Parking Reforms Advanced By L.A. City Council Transportation Committee

By Joe Linton | Oct 30, 2015 | No Comments

As expected, a suite of far-ranging parking reforms was heard by the Los Angeles City Council’s Transportation Committee yesterday. The committee was broadly receptive to the reforms, directing the city’s Transportation Department (LADOT) and other departments to further investigate a number of key reforms. What was perhaps most revealing was individual city councilmember attention to […]

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The Top 5 Times S.F. Mayor Lee “Traded Safety for Convenience”

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 30, 2015 | No Comments

Mayor Ed Lee says he’ll veto the Bike Yield Law because he’s “not willing to trade away safety for convenience.” The mayor is just being modest here. Of course he’s willing to trade safety for convenience! In fact, he’s elevated convenience to a core value. Here are our top five moments when Mayor Lee traded […]

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How Portland (Maine) Pairs Car-Share With Parking Reform

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 29, 2015 | No Comments

Is your city skittish about reducing parking minimums? Here’s one way to ease people into the idea that new buildings shouldn’t be forced to include lots of parking along with housing, and it comes from Portland — Maine. Network blog Rights of Way reports that this city of 66,000 pairs the reduction of parking mandates […]

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Park(ing) Day Scenes From Coast to Coast

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 21, 2015 | No Comments

Today is a very fun day in cities around the U.S., when advocates for better public spaces unleash their imaginations on the dreary places where we normally store cars. Park(ing) Day is “an annual worldwide event where artists, designers and citizens transform metered parking spots into temporary public parks,” according to its organizers. Below we are showcasing […]

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LA Metro Saddles NoHo Station Redevelopment With $48M Parking Expansion

By Joe Linton | Sep 14, 2015 | No Comments

In a recent post at The Source, Metro announced a new call for joint development at four large parcels of land at and adjacent to its North Hollywood Red and Orange Line Stations. Curbed L.A. reports that the NoHo parcels could include an estimated 750 to 1,500 units of housing, up to 12 stories tall. […]

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Today in Two Steps Backwards: USC Discontinues Rideshare Subsidy Program for 3000+ Employees; Offers Parking Passes as Consolation

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 13, 2015 | No Comments

The letter sent to the more than three thousand faculty and staff that participated in USC’s Rideshare Subsidy Program this past June 16th started off happily enough. The USC Rideshare program is growing and continuing to evolve! In 2015, we recorded our highest-ever Air Quality Management District (AQMD) survey result – an AVR (average vehicle […]

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Drivers Lose a 27-Cent Parking Subsidy – KPIX and KTVU Lose Their Sh*t

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 10, 2015 | No Comments

The sky is falling! San Francisco drivers paying parking meters with credit cards will no longer get their 27-cent credit card transaction fees bankrolled by the federal government. For KPIX and KTVU, this was the scandal du jour. “It’s already pricey to park,” said KPIX anchor Elizabeth Cook. “How bad is it really going to […]

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